Manage your materials with SAP S/4HANA! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage MM in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then follow step-by-step instructions for your essential processes, from purchasing and MRP runs to goods issue and receipt. Discover how to get more out of SAP S/4HANA by using batch management, demand-driven MRP, SAP Fiori reports, and other built-in tools.

Highlights include:
1) Material master data
2) Business partners
3) Purchasing
4) Batch management
5) Material requirements planning (MRP)
6) Demand-driven MRP
7) Inventory management
8) Goods issue and receipt (GI/GR)
9) Material Ledger
10) Invoice verification
11) Document management
12) Reporting

Master core functionality: procurement, MRP, inventory management, and more

Autorentext
A native of London, England, Martin Murray joined the computer industry upon his graduation from Middlesex University in 1986. In 1991, he began working with SAP R/2 in the Materials Management area for a London-based multi-national beverage company. In 1994, he moved to the United States to work as an SAP R/3 consultant. Since then, he's been implementing the Materials Management (MM) and Warehouse Management (WM) functionality in projects throughout the world. He works for IBM Global Business Services. Martin is the author of six best-selling books from SAP PRESS: Materials Management with SAP ERP, Warehouse Management with SAP ERP, Discover Logistics with SAP ERP, Maximize Your Warehouse Operations with SAP ERP, Understanding the SAP Logistics Information System, and SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to T-Codes in SAP ERP.

Inhalt
... Acknowledgments ... 31

... Preface ... 33

... Who Is This Book For? ... 33

... How This Book Is Organized ... 33

... Conclusion ... 38

Part I ... Materials Management Foundations ... 39

1 ... Materials Management Overview ... 41

1.1 ... What Is Materials Management? ... 41

1.2 ... Materials Management Integration ... 45

1.3 ... Summary ... 47

2 ... Organizational Structure ... 49

2.1 ... Mapping Business Functions of a Company in the SAP System ... 49

2.2 ... Client Structure in the SAP System ... 52

2.3 ... Company Codes ... 56

2.4 ... Plants ... 58

2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 62

2.6 ... Purchasing Organizations ... 65

2.7 ... Purchasing Groups ... 72

2.8 ... SAP Calendar ... 72

2.9 ... Summary ... 75

3 ... Configuring the Material Master ... 77

3.1 ... Material Master ... 77

3.2 ... Configuring a New Material Type ... 79

3.3 ... Defining a Number Range for a Material Type ... 84

3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 87

3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 89

3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 89

3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 90

3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 92

3.9 ... Summary ... 97

4 ... Material Master Data ... 99

4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 100

4.2 ... Material Type ... 101

4.3 ... Basic Data ... 106

4.4 ... Classification Data ... 119

4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 120

4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 129

4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 134

4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 138

4.9 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 153

4.10 ... Extended Service Parts Planning ... 159

4.11 ... Forecasting Data ... 162

4.12 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 166

4.13 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 170

4.14 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 173

4.15 ... Extended Warehouse Management Data ... 178

4.16 ... Quality Management Data ... 183

4.17 ... Accounting Data ... 187

4.18 ... Costing Data ... 192

4.19 ... Key Differences between the Material Master in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA ... 197

4.20 ... Summary ... 199

5 ... Business Partners ... 201

5.1 ... Business Partner Overview ... 202

5.2 ... Vendor Account Groups ... 204

5.3 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 209

5.4 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 215

5.5 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 218

5.6 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 221

5.7 ... Summary ... 252

Part II ... Procurement ... 253

6 ... Purchasing Overview ... 255

6.1 ... Procure to Pay ... 257

6.2 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 258

6.3 ... Quotations ... 258

6.4 ... Outline Agreements ... 260

6.5 ... Purchase Orders ... 261

6.6 ... Order Acknowledgment ... 261

6.7 ... Goods Receipt ... 262

6.8 ... Invoice Verification ... 262

6.9 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 262

6.10 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 267

6.11 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 269

6.12 ... Serial Numbers ... 270

6.13 ... Quota Arrangements ... 273

6.14 ... Summary ... 277

7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 279

7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 279

7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 285

7.3 ... Summary ... 290

8 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 291

8.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 291

8.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 301

8.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 303

8.4 ... Release Procedures ... 307

8.5 ... Flexible Workflow ... 325

8.6 ... Summary ... 332

9 ... Requests for Quotation ... 333

9.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 333

9.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 341

9.3 ... Releasing a Request for Quotation ... 342

9.4 ... Issuing a Request for Quotation to a Supplier ... 343

9.5 ... Maintaining Quotations ... 345

9.6 ... Comparing Quotations ... 346

9.7 ... Rejecting Quotations ... 349

9.8 ... Summary ... 350

10 ... Purchase Orders ... 353

10.1 ... Creating and Maintaining a Purchase Order ... 354

10.2 ... Blocking and Canceling a Purchase Order ... 361

10.3 ... Creating a Purchase Order with Reference to Purchasing Documents ... 363

10.4 ... Account Assignment in a Purchase Order ... 365

10.5 ... Progress Tracking ... 369

10.6 ... Outline Purchase Agreements ... 373

10.7 ... Supplier Confirmations ... 380

10.8 ... Messages and Outputs ... 387

10.9 ... Pricing Procedures ... 395

10.10 ... Supplier Evaluations ... 409

10.11 ... Serial Numbers in Purchasing ... 429

10.12 ... Summary ... 436

11 ... External Services Management ... 437

11.1 ... Service Master Record ... 438

11.2 ... Standard Service Catalog ... 441

11.3 ... Conditions in External Services Management ... 441

11.4 ... Procurement of Services ... 442

11.5 ... Entry of Services ... 444

11.6 ... Blanket Purchase Orders ... 448

11.7 ... Configuration Basics of External Services Management ... 451

11.8 ... Summary ... 452

12 ... Special Procurement Types ... 453

12.1 ... Overview ... 454

12.2 ... Direct Procurement ... 456

12.3 ... Stock Transfers ... 460

12.4 ... Withdrawals from an Alternative Plant ... 463

12.5 ... Subcontracting ... 464

12.6 ... Consignment ... 474

12.7 ... Pipeline Material ... 479

12.8 ... Third-Party Procurement ... 480…