Material Management - SAP R/3
Course content
Course Length
8 weekends
Goals
In this course participants learn how to implement material management procurement module.
Content
Processes in procurement - Basics of procurement
- Master data (material, supplier)
- Procurement process for stock material
- Procurement process for consumable materials
- Procurement process for external services
- Automated procurement process
- Analysis in materials management (overview)
- Self-service procurement
Inventory management and physical inventory
- Goods receipt
- Stock transfers/transfer postings
- Goods issue
- Reservations
- Special forms of procurement (subcontracting, consignment, pipeline)
- Special forms of inventory management (split valuation, nonvaluated material)
- Physical inventory and special inventory procedures (cycle counting and inventory sampling in SAP)
- Reporting in inventory management
- Selected Customizing settings for inventory management and physical inventory
Invoice verification - Introduction to invoice verification
- Invoice entry and parking
- Taxes, cash discounts, and foreign currency
- Variances and blocking reasons
- Releasing blocked invoices
- Invoice reduction
- Variances without reference to an item
- Invoices for purchase orders with account assignment
- Delivery costs
- Subsequent debts/credits
- Credit memos and cancellations
- Invoice verification in the background
- Automated processing
- GR/IR account maintenance
- Customizing for invoice verification
Purchasing - Master data for purchasing
- Sources of supply: info records, contracts, and scheduling agreements
- Source determination
- Optimized purchasing
- Special procurement processes (accounting plan, subcontracting, MPN processing)
- Document release (approval) procedure
- Vendor evaluation
- Customizing (vendor master records, partner determination, document types, user parameters)
Consumption based planning and forecasting - Master data
- Planning run and evaluation
- Lot-size calculation
- Forecasting in consumption-based planning
- Source determination during MRP
- MRP areas and storage locations
Customising in materials management
- Introduction to working with the Implementation Guide
- Global settings in the SAP system
- Setting up the organizational levels in materials management
- Settings for master data in materials management
- Settings for valuation and account assignment, especially automatic account determination
- Special settings for purchasing (document types, transferring and creating long texts)
- Special settings for inventory management (creating a new transaction type, message determination)