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Materials management has transitioned to SAP S/4HANA-let us help you do the same! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage your critical processes in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then get step-by-step instructions for defining the processes you need, from creating purchase orders and receiving goods to running MRP and using batch management. The new MM is here!

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... Acknowledgments ... 31

... Preface ... 33

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

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

... Conclusion ... 38

1 ... Materials Management Overview ... 39

1.1 ... What Is Materials Management? ... 39

1.2 ... Materials Management Integration ... 43

1.3 ... Summary ... 45

2 ... Organizational Structure ... 47

2.1 ... Mapping Business Functions of a Company in the SAP System ... 48

2.2 ... Client Structure in the SAP System ... 51

2.3 ... Company Code ... 55

2.4 ... Plants ... 57

2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 63

2.6 ... Purchasing Organization ... 66

2.7 ... Purchasing Groups ... 73

2.8 ... SAP Calendar ... 73

2.9 ... Summary ... 77

3 ... Configuring the Material Master ... 79

3.1 ... Material Master ... 79

3.2 ... Configuring a New Material Type ... 81

3.3 ... Defining a Number Range for a Material Type ... 86

3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 89

3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 91

3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 91

3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 92

3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 95

3.9 ... Summary ... 100

4 ... Material Master Data: Part 1 ... 101

4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 103

4.2 ... Material Type ... 103

4.3 ... Basic Data ... 109

4.4 ... Classification Data ... 122

4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 124

4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 134

4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 140

4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 143

4.9 ... Summary ... 162

5 ... Material Master Data: Part 2 ... 163

5.1 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 163

5.2 ... Forecasting Data ... 169

5.3 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 174

5.4 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 178

5.5 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 181

5.6 ... Warehouse Management Data ... 187

5.7 ... Quality Management Data ... 192

5.8 ... Accounting Data ... 196

5.9 ... Costing Data ... 201

5.10 ... Summary ... 205

6 ... Business Partners ... 207

6.1 ... Configuring Vendor Account Groups (Financial Accounting) ... 209

6.2 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 214

6.3 ... Customer/Vendor Integration ... 220

6.4 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 224

6.5 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 226

6.6 ... Summary ... 260

7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 261

7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 262

7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 267

7.3 ... Summary ... 273

8 ... Batch Management Data ... 275

8.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 275

8.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 277

8.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 282

8.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 287

8.5 ... Batch Determination ... 294

8.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 307

8.7 ... Batch Derivation ... 315

8.8 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 325

8.9 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 336

8.10 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 339

8.11 ... Summary ... 341

9 ... Purchasing Overview ... 343

9.1 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 343

9.2 ... Requests for Quotation ... 344

9.3 ... Quotations ... 345

9.4 ... Purchase Orders ... 346

9.5 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 346

9.6 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 352

9.7 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 354

9.8 ... Serial Numbers ... 357

9.9 ... Quota Arrangements ... 359

9.10 ... Summary ... 361

10 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 363

10.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 363

10.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 375

10.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 378

10.4 ... Release Procedures ... 380

10.5 ... Summary ... 399

11 ... Requests for Quotation ... 401

11.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 401

11.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 410

11.3 ... Releasing a

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