Materials Management with SAP S4HANA Business Processes and Configuration
- Configure your materials management processes in SAP S/4HANA
- Maintain critical material and business partner records
- Master core functionality: procurement, MRP, inventory management, and more
Master your procurement processes, from setting up purchasing information records and special procurement types to creating requests for quotations and purchase orders. Learn how to run MRP and forecasting in SAP S/4HANA.
Inventory Management
Ensure your system is properly configured to handle goods issue, goods receipt, and other inventory movements. Manage the physical inventory processes, invoice verification, valuation, and more.
Advanced Processes
Are core processes not enough? Configure batch management, set up demand-driven replenishment, and use the Document Management System. Discover all-new SAP Fiori apps to report on and monitor your system.
- Material master data
- Business partners
- Purchasing
- Batch management
- Material requirements planning (MRP)
- Demand-driven MRP
- Inventory management
- Goods issue and receipt (GI/GR)
- Material Ledger
- Invoice verification
- Document management
- Reporting
PART I: Materials Management Foundations
- Materials Management Overview
- Organizational Structure
- Configuring the Material Master
- Material Master Data
- Business Partners
Material Master
- Configuring a New Material Type
- Defining a Number Range for a Material Type
- Defining Field Selections
- Configuring an Industry Sector
- Defining Material Groups
- Configuring a New Unit of Measure
- Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects
- Summary
Industry Sector
Material Type
- Standard Material Types
- Configuring Material Types
- Changing a Material Type
- Creating a Material Master Record: Immediately
- Creating a Material Master Record Scheduled
- Creating a Material Master Record: Special
- Selecting Views
- Organizational Levels
- Basic Data Tabs
- Class Type
- Classes
- Characteristics
- General Data
- Purchasing Value Key
- Other Data/Manufacturer Data
- Foreign Trade Data
- Origin/EU Market Organization/Preferences
- Legal Control
- General Data
- Tax Data
- Quantity Stipulations
- Grouping Items
- Material Groups
- Product Attributes
- General Data
- Shipping Data
- General Plant Parameters
- General Data
- Material Requirements Planning Procedure
- Lot Size Data
- Procurement
- Scheduling
- Net Requirements Calculations
- Forecast Requirements
- Planning
- Availability Check
- Bill of Materials Requirements
- Discontinued Parts
- Repetitive Manufacturing/Assembly/Deployment Strategy
- Procurement/PP/DS
- Demand
- Lot Size
- Goods Receipt/Goods Issue
- Location Dependent Shelf-Life
- Extended Service Parts Planning
- Basic Data
- Extended SPP
- General Data
- Number of Periods Required
- Control Data
- General Data
- Tolerance Data
- In-House Production Time in Days
- General Data
- Default Values for Task List Assignment
- General Data
- Shelf Life Data
- Segmentation Data
- General Data
- Storage Strategies
- Palletization Data
- Storage Bin Stock
- General Data
- Procurement Data
- General Data
- General Valuation Data
- Determination of Lowest Value
- Last First Out Data
- General Data
- Quantity Structure Data
- Standard Cost Estimate
- Planned Prices
Summary
PART II: Procurement
- Purchasing Overview
- Purchasing Information Record
- Purchase Requisitions
- Requests for Quotation
- Purchase Orders
- External Services Management
- Special Procurement Types
Planning Overview
- Material Requirements Planning
- Forecasting
Inventory Management Overview
- Goods Issue
- Goods Receipt
- Physical Inventory
- Invoice Verification
- Inventory Valuation and Account Assignment
- Material Ledger
- Classification
- Document Management System
- Batch Management
- Early Warning System
- Demand-Driven Replenishment
- Reporting and Analytics
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About the Author Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has more than 20 years of professional experience, 16 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP implementation project lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify the root causes of business issues and address those issues with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Ariba, and SAP Customer Experience. Martin Murray was a respected logistics consultant and worked with IBM for more than 15 years. He 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 multinational beverage company, and in 1994 he moved to the United States to work as an SAP R/3 consultant. |
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