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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
1.1.1 Materials Management in SAP S/4HANA
41
1.1.2 Materials Management in Logistics
42
1.2 Materials Management Integration
45
1.2.1 The Material Flow of the Supply Chain
45
1.2.2 The Information Flow of the Supply Chain
46
1.2.3 The Financial Flow of the Supply Chain
47
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
53
2.2.1 What Is a Client?
53
2.2.2 Clients in the SAP Landscape
55
2.2.3 Change and Transport System
55
2.3 Company Codes
56
2.3.1 What Is a Company?
57
2.3.2 Creating a Company Code
57
2.4 Plants
59
2.4.1 What Is a Plant?
59
2.4.2 Prerequisites for a Plant
60
2.4.3 Defining a Plant
61
2.4.4 Valuation Level
62
2.4.5 Assigning a Plant to a Company Code
63
2.5 Storage Locations
64
2.5.1 What Is a Storage Location?
64
2.5.2 Defining a Storage Location
65
2.5.3 Automatic Creation of Storage Locations
66
2.6 Purchasing Organizations
66
2.6.1 What Is a Purchasing Organization?
66
2.6.2 Types of Purchasing Organizations
67
2.6.3 Creating a Purchasing Organization
69
2.6.4 Assigning a Purchasing Organization to a Company Code
69
2.6.5 Assigning a Purchasing Organization to a Plant
70
2.6.6 Assigning a Purchasing Organization to a Reference Purchasing Organization
71
2.7 Purchasing Groups
72
2.8 SAP Calendar
72
2.8.1 Public Holidays
73
2.8.2 Holiday Calendar
74
2.8.3 Factory Calendar
74
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
85
3.4 Defining Field Selections
88
3.5 Configuring an Industry Sector
90
3.6 Defining Material Groups
90
3.7 Configuring a New Unit of Measure
91
3.8 Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects
93
3.9 Summary
99
4 Material Master Data
101
4.1 Industry Sector
103
4.2 Material Type
103
4.2.1 Standard Material Types
103
4.2.2 Configuring Material Types
107
4.2.3 Changing a Material Type
108
4.3 Basic Data
108
4.3.1 Creating a Material Master Record: Immediately
109
4.3.2 Creating a Material Master Record: Scheduled
110
4.3.3 Creating a Material Master Record: Special
110
4.3.4 Selecting Views
111
4.3.5 Organizational Levels
113
4.3.6 Basic Data Tabs
115
4.4 Classification Data
122
4.4.1 Class Type
122
4.4.2 Classes
123
4.4.3 Characteristics
124
4.5 Purchasing Data
124
4.5.1 General Data
125
4.5.2 Purchasing Value Key
127
4.5.3 Other Data/Manufacturer Data
129
4.5.4 Foreign Trade Data
130
4.5.5 Origin/EU Market Organization/Preferences
131
4.5.6 Legal Control
132
4.6 Sales Organizational Data
133
4.6.1 General Data
133
4.6.2 Tax Data
134
4.6.3 Quantity Stipulations
135
4.6.4 Grouping Items
136
4.6.5 Material Groups
138
4.6.6 Product Attributes
138
4.7 Sales General Data
138
4.7.1 General Data
138
4.7.2 Shipping Data
139
4.7.3 General Plant Parameters
140
4.8 Material Requirements Planning Data
142
4.8.1 General Data
143
4.8.2 Material Requirements Planning Procedure
144
4.8.3 Lot Size Data
145
4.8.4 Procurement
148
4.8.5 Scheduling
149
4.8.6 Net Requirements Calculations
150
4.8.7 Forecast Requirements
153
4.8.8 Planning
154
4.8.9 Availability Check
156
4.8.10 Bill of Materials Explosion/Dependent Requirements
157
4.8.11 Discontinued Parts
157
4.8.12 Repetitive Manufacturing/Assembly/Deployment Strategy
158
4.9 Advanced Planning Data
159
4.9.1 Procurement/PP-DS
160
4.9.2 Demand
160
4.9.3 Lot Size
162
4.9.4 Goods Receipt/Goods Issue
164
4.9.5 Location-Dependent Shelf Life
165
4.10 Extended Service Parts Planning
165
4.10.1 Basic Data
166
4.10.2 Extended SPP
167
4.11 Forecasting Data
169
4.11.1 General Data
170
4.11.2 Number of Periods Required
171
4.11.3 Control Data
172
4.12 Work Scheduling Data
174
4.12.1 General Data
175
4.12.2 Tolerance Data
176
4.12.3 In-House Production Time in Days
177
4.13 Production Resources/Tools Data
179
4.13.1 General Data
179
4.13.2 Default Values for Task List Assignment
180
4.14 Plant Data/Storage Location
182
4.14.1 General Data
182
4.14.2 Shelf Life Data
185
4.15 Warehouse Management Data
187
4.15.1 General Data
187
4.15.2 Storage Strategies
189
4.15.3 Palletization Data
191
4.15.4 Storage Bin Stock
192
4.16 Quality Management Data
193
4.16.1 General Data
193
4.16.2 Procurement Data
196
4.17 Accounting Data
197
4.17.1 General Data
198
4.17.2 General Valuation Data
198
4.17.3 Determination of Lowest Value
200
4.17.4 Last In, First Out Data
201
4.18 Costing Data
202
4.18.1 General Data
202
4.18.2 Quantity Structure Data
203
4.18.3 Standard Cost Estimate
205
4.18.4 Planned Prices
205
4.19 Summary
206
5 Business Partners
207
5.1 Configuring Vendor Account Groups
209
5.1.1 Vendor Account Groups
210
5.1.2 Number Ranges for Vendor Account Groups
213
5.2 Configuring a Business Partner
214
5.2.1 Number Ranges for Business Partners
214
5.2.2 Business Partner Role Categories
215
5.2.3 Field Attributes for a Business Partner Role Category
218
5.3 Customer-Vendor Integration
220
5.3.1 Business Partner Role Categories
220
5.3.2 Business Partner Roles
221
5.3.3 Vendor Account Groups for Business Partner Groupings
222
5.3.4 Number Assignments for Vendors
223
5.4 Additional Business Partner Configurations
223
5.4.1 Business Partner Types
224
5.4.2 Partner Functions in Materials Management
224
5.4.3 Vendor Subrange Functionality
226
5.5 Maintaining a Business Partner
227
5.5.1 Business Partner General Data
227
5.5.2 Extending a Business Partner as a Financial Accounting Vendor
237
5.5.3 Extending Business Partners for Purchasing
249
5.5.4 Maintaining a Business Partner Relationship
256
5.6 Summary
257
Part II Procurement
259
6 Purchasing Overview
261
6.1 Purchase Requisitions
261
6.2 Requests for Quotation
262
6.3 Quotations
263
6.4 Outline Agreements
264
6.5 Purchase Orders
265
6.6 Source Lists and Source Determination
266
6.6.1 Single Sourcing
266
6.6.2 Multisourcing
267
6.6.3 Generating a Source List
269
6.6.4 Source Determination
270
6.7 Conditions in Purchasing
271
6.7.1 Condition Processing
271
6.7.2 Pricing Conditions
272
6.7.3 Taxes
273
6.7.4 Delivery Costs
273
6.8 Purchasing Information Records
273
6.8.1 Purchasing Information Record for a Nonstock Material
274
6.8.2 Purchasing Information Record Numbering
274
6.8.3 Purchasing Information Record Screen Layout
275
6.9 Serial Numbers
275
6.9.1 Serial Number Profiles
276
6.9.2 Serializing Procedures
277
6.10 Quota Arrangements
278
6.11 Summary
280
7 Purchasing Information Record
281
7.1 Purchasing General Data
282
7.1.1 Creating a Purchasing Information Record
283
7.1.2 Creating a Purchasing Information Record with a Material Number
284
7.1.3 Creating a Purchasing Information Record without a Material Number
285
7.1.4 General Data Screen
286
7.2 Purchasing Organization Data
287
7.2.1 Conditions
288
7.2.2 Validity
289
7.2.3 Text Screen
290
7.2.4 Statistical Data
291
7.3 Summary
293
8 Purchase Requisitions
295
8.1 Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type
295
8.1.1 Defining a Number Range
296
8.1.2 Defining Document Types
297
8.1.3 Creating a Purchase Requisition with a Material Master Record
299
8.1.4 Creating a Purchase Requisition without a Material Master Record
305
8.2 Processing a Purchase Requisition
306
8.2.1 Changing a Purchase Requisition
306
8.2.2 Displaying a Purchase Requisition
306
8.2.3 Closing a Purchase Requisition
308
8.2.4 Follow-On Functions
308
8.3 Indirectly Created Requisitions
309
8.3.1 Purchase Requisition Created by Production Order
310
8.3.2 Purchase Requisition Created by Plant Maintenance Order
310
8.3.3 Purchase Requisition Created by Project System
310
8.3.4 Purchase Requisition Created by Materials Planning
311
8.4 Release Procedures
311
8.4.1 Release Procedures without Classification
312
8.4.2 Release Procedures with Classification
318
8.5 Flexible Workflow
330
8.5.1 Configuration Settings
330
8.5.2 Master Data
331
8.5.3 Setting Up Flexible Workflows
333
8.5.4 Validating and Handling Approval with Flexible Workflow
336
8.6 Summary
338
9 Requests for Quotation
339
9.1 Creating a Request for Quotation
339
9.1.1 Request for Quotation Type
340
9.1.2 Request for Quotation Date
341
9.1.3 Quotation Deadline
341
9.1.4 Request for Quotation Document Number
341
9.1.5 Organizational Data
342
9.1.6 Default Data for Items
342
9.1.7 Collective Number
343
9.1.8 Validity Start/Validity End
344
9.1.9 Apply By
344
9.1.10 Binding Period
344
9.1.11 Reference Data
344
9.1.12 Request for Quotation Item Detail
344
9.1.13 Request for Quotation Delivery Schedule
345
9.1.14 Additional Data
345
9.1.15 Supplier Selection
346
9.2 Changing a Request for Quotation
347
9.3 Releasing a Request for Quotation
348
9.4 Issuing a Request for Quotation to a Vendor
350
9.5 Maintaining Quotations
351
9.6 Comparing Quotations
353
9.6.1 Price Comparison Factor in Quotations
353
9.6.2 Other Qualitative Factors in Quotations
355
9.7 Rejecting Quotations
356
9.7.1 Flagging the Quotation as Rejected
357
9.7.2 Printing the Quotation Rejection
357
9.7.3 Advising Unsuccessful Bidders
357
9.8 Summary
358
10 Purchase Orders
359
10.1 Creating and Maintaining a Purchase Order
360
10.1.1 Purchase Order Creation
360
10.1.2 Purchase Order Maintenance
366
10.2 Blocking and Canceling a Purchase Order
366
10.2.1 Blocking a Purchase Order Line Item
366
10.2.2 Canceling a Purchase Order Line Item
367
10.3 Creating a Purchase Order with Reference to Purchasing Documents
368
10.4 Account Assignment in a Purchase Order
371
10.4.1 Account Assignment Categories
371
10.4.2 Single Account Assignment
372
10.4.3 Multiple Account Assignment
373
10.4.4 Automatically Create POs from Purchase Requisitions
374
10.5 Progress Tracking
375
10.5.1 Configuration Basics
376
10.5.2 Business Processes
377
10.5.3 Evaluation
379
10.6 Outline Purchase Agreements
380
10.6.1 Scheduling Agreements
380
10.6.2 Contracts
384
10.7 Supplier Confirmations
388
10.7.1 Supplier Confirmation Overview
388
10.7.2 Confirmation Configuration
388
10.7.3 Master Data Maintenance of Confirmation Control
390
10.7.4 Business Processes of Supplier Confirmation
391
10.7.5 Monitoring Supplier Confirmations
394
10.8 Messages and Outputs
395
10.8.1 How Message Determination Works
395
10.8.2 Configuration Steps
396
10.8.3 Maintaining Condition Records
400
10.8.4 Creating a Purchase Order
401
10.9 Pricing Procedures
403
10.9.1 Business Processes
403
10.9.2 Configuration Basics
405
10.10 Supplier Evaluations
417
10.10.1 Configuration Basics
418
10.10.2 Master Data Maintenance
423
10.10.3 Business Processes
424
10.10.4 Calculating Scores
424
10.11 Serial Numbers in Purchasing
426
10.11.1 Configuration Steps
428
10.11.2 Business Processes
432
10.12 Summary
434
11 External Services Management
435
11.1 Service Master Record
436
11.1.1 Material/Service Group
438
11.1.2 Tax Indicator
438
11.1.3 Valuation Class
438
11.1.4 Formula
438
11.1.5 Graphic
439
11.2 Standard Service Catalog
440
11.3 Conditions in External Services Management
440
11.4 Procurement of Services
441
11.5 Entry of Services
443
11.6 Blanket Purchase Orders
446
11.7 Configuration Basics of External Services Management
449
11.8 Summary
450
12 Special Procurement Types
453
12.1 Overview
454
12.2 Direct Procurement
457
12.3 Stock Transfers (Interplant Transfers)
461
12.4 Withdrawals from an Alternative Plant
463
12.5 Subcontracting
464
12.5.1 Production Version
465
12.5.2 Production Version: Mass Processing
465
12.5.3 Business Processes in Subcontracting
467
12.6 Consignment
470
12.7 Pipeline Material
473
12.8 Simplified Sourcing
474
12.8.1 Source of Supply without a Source List
475
12.8.2 Simplified Sourcing with a Quota Arrangement
475
12.8.3 Simplified Sourcing with a Scheduling Agreement or a Contract
476
12.8.4 Simplified Sourcing for Internal Procurement
476
12.9 Summary
476
Part III Planning
477
13 Planning Overview
479
13.1 Material Requirements Planning
481
13.2 Consumption-Based Planning
484
13.3 Summary
484
14 Material Requirements Planning
485
14.1 Material Requirements Planning Elements
486
14.1.1 Material Requirements Planning Types
486
14.1.2 Lot-Sizing Procedures
495
14.1.3 Scrap
500
14.1.4 Safety Stock
502
14.1.5 Scheduling
503
14.1.6 Net Requirements Calculation Logic
503
14.1.7 Procurement Proposals
504
14.2 Material Requirements Planning Procedures
505
14.2.1 Consumption-Based Planning
505
14.2.2 Forecast-Based Consumption Planning
507
14.2.3 Types of Planning Runs
507
14.2.4 MRP Live
510
14.2.5 Stock/Requirements List
514
14.3 Planning Areas
523
14.3.1 Configuration
523
14.3.2 Setting Up in the Material Master
524
14.3.3 Running MRP at the Planning Area Level
526
14.3.4 Planning Results
527
14.4 Classic MRP
527
14.5 Configuration Settings
530
14.5.1 Material Requirements Planning Activation
530
14.5.2 Plant Parameters Configuration
530
14.5.3 Material Requirements Planning Group Configuration
531
14.6 Planning Calendar
533
14.7 Summary
535
15 Forecasting
537
15.1 Forecast Models
538
15.1.1 Constant Model
539
15.1.2 Trend Model
539
15.1.3 Seasonal Model
539
15.1.4 Seasonal Trend Model
539
15.2 Forecasting Master Data
540
15.3 Forecast Profile
544
15.4 Business Processes in Forecasting
545
15.4.1 Executing Forecast
545
15.4.2 Executing Material Requirements Planning
549
15.4.3 Forecasting Using External Data
550
15.5 Configuration Settings for Forecasting
550
15.5.1 MRP Types
550
15.5.2 Weighting Group
551
15.5.3 Splitting Indicator
551
15.6 Summary
552
Part IV Inventory
555
16 Inventory Management Overview
557
16.1 Goods Movements
557
16.1.1 Stock Overview
558
16.1.2 Warehouse Stock of Materials
560
16.1.3 Material Document
561
16.1.4 Movement Types
563
16.1.5 Goods Issue
564
16.1.6 Goods Receipt
564
16.2 Physical Inventory
565
16.3 Returns
565
16.3.1 Creating a Return
566
16.3.2 Configuring Reasons for Returns
568
16.4 Material Documents
568
16.5 Reservations
569
16.5.1 Creating a Manual Reservation
570
16.5.2 Automatic Creation of Reservation
573
16.5.3 Material Requirements Planning and Reservations
573
16.5.4 Reservations Management Program
574
16.5.5 Configuration Settings of Reservations
574
16.5.6 Pick List
575
16.6 Stock Transfers
576
16.6.1 Transfer between Storage Locations
577
16.6.2 Transfer between Plants
578
16.6.3 Transfer between Storage Locations
579
16.6.4 Transfer between Plants Using Transaction MIGO_TR
580
16.6.5 Transfer between Company Codes
581
16.6.6 Additional Transfer Posting Scenarios
581
16.7 Configuration Basics in Inventory Management
582
16.8 Summary
585
17 Goods Issue
587
17.1 Goods Issue to a Production Order
587
17.1.1 Planned Goods Issue
588
17.1.2 Unplanned Goods Issue
593
17.1.3 Backflushing
594
17.2 Goods Issue to Scrap
595
17.3 Goods Issue for Sampling
597
17.4 Goods Issue Posting Documents
598
17.4.1 Material Documents
598
17.4.2 Accounting Documents
598
17.4.3 Goods Issue Slips
599
17.4.4 Stock Changes
599
17.4.5 General Ledger Account Changes
599
17.5 Goods Issue Reversals
600
17.6 Summary
600
18 Goods Receipt
601
18.1 Goods Receipt for a Purchase Order
601
18.1.1 Goods Receipt with a Known Purchase Order Number
602
18.1.2 Goods Receipt with an Unknown Purchase Order Number
607
18.1.3 Goods Receipt Posting
608
18.2 Goods Receipt for a Production Order
609
18.3 Initial Entry of Inventory
610
18.4 Good Receipt of Co-Products or By-Products
613
18.4.1 Material Master Flag
614
18.4.2 Bill of Materials
617
18.4.3 Production Order
619
18.4.4 Confirmation
621
18.4.5 Goods Receipt
623
18.4.6 Documented Goods Movement
624
18.5 Other Goods Receipt
625
18.5.1 Goods Receipt without a Production Order
626
18.5.2 Goods Receipt for Free Goods
626
18.5.3 Goods Receipt for Returnable Transport Packaging
626
18.5.4 Automatic Goods Receipt
627
18.6 Summary
627
19 Physical Inventory
629
19.1 Physical Inventory Methods
630
19.2 Physical Inventory Preparation
631
19.2.1 Preparations for a Physical Inventory Count
632
19.2.2 Creating the Physical Inventory Count Document
632
19.2.3 Printing the Physical Inventory Count Document
634
19.3 Counting and Recounts
636
19.3.1 Entering the Count
637
19.3.2 Difference List
637
19.3.3 Missing Material
638
19.3.4 Recounts
639
19.4 Physical Inventory Posting
639
19.4.1 Posting the Count Document
639
19.4.2 Posting a Count without a Document
641
19.4.3 Accounting of Inventory Differences
642
19.5 Cycle Counting Method of Physical Inventory
643
19.5.1 Configuration Basics
644
19.5.2 Business Processes of Cycle Counting
645
19.6 Summary
647
20 Invoice Verification
649
20.1 Standard Three-Way Match
650
20.1.1 Entering an Invoice
650
20.1.2 Simulating a Posting
653
20.1.3 Invoice Posting
654
20.1.4 Invoice Parking
655
20.2 Duplicate Invoice Check
655
20.3 Evaluated Receipt Settlement
656
20.3.1 Master Data
656
20.3.2 Business Processes in Evaluated Receipt Settlement
658
20.4 Credit Memos and Reversals
661
20.5 Taxes in Invoice Verification
662
20.6 Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Account Maintenance
663
20.7 Invoice Reduction
664
20.8 Tolerance Limits
666
20.8.1 Variances
666
20.8.2 Tolerance Keys
667
20.8.3 Supplier-Specific Tolerance
669
20.9 Blocking Invoices
670
20.9.1 Manual Block
671
20.9.2 Stochastic or Random Block
671
20.9.3 Block Due to an Amount of an Invoice Item
672
20.10 Releasing Blocked Invoices
673
20.11 Down Payments
674
20.11.1 Creating a Purchase Order with a Down Payment
674
20.11.2 Monitoring Down Payments
675
20.11.3 Creating a Down Payment
676
20.11.4 Purchase Order with Down Payment History
676
20.11.5 Invoice Verification with Down Payment
677
20.12 Retention Money
677
20.12.1 Configuration
678
20.12.2 Business Processes
679
20.13 Summary
680
21 Inventory Valuation and Account Assignment
683
21.1 Split Valuation
684
21.1.1 Configuration Steps
685
21.1.2 Master Data
691
21.1.3 Business Processes
692
21.1.4 Reports of Split-Valuated Materials
694
21.2 Account Determination
695
21.2.1 Configuration with the Automatic Account Determination Wizard
696
21.2.2 Configuration without the Automatic Account Determination Wizard
696
21.2.3 Master Data Setup
702
21.2.4 Troubleshooting Errors
704
21.3 Last In, First Out Valuation
709
21.3.1 Configuration
710
21.3.2 Preparation
711
21.3.3 Running a Last In, First Out Valuation
714
21.4 First In, First Out Valuation
716
21.4.1 Configuration
716
21.4.2 Preparation
717
21.4.3 Running a First In, First Out Valuation
717
21.5 Lowest Value Determination
718
21.5.1 Lowest Value Determination Based on Market Prices
719
21.5.2 Lowest Value Determination Based on Range of Coverage
720
21.5.3 Lowest Value Determination Based on Movement Rate
721
21.6 Material Price Changes
722
21.6.1 Price Changes in the Current Posting Period
722
21.6.2 Price Changes Not Carried Over
723
21.6.3 Price Changes Carried Over
723
21.6.4 Business Process
724
21.6.5 Configuration Steps for Price Changes in the Previous Period/Year
724
21.7 Summary
725
22 Material Ledger
727
22.1 Material Ledger Overview
727
22.2 Business Processes
732
22.2.1 Inventory Valuation Method
732
22.2.2 Material Price Determination
734
22.2.3 Multiple Currencies
735
22.2.4 Price Differences
736
22.2.5 Debit and Credit of a Material
737
22.3 Configuration Basics
738
22.3.1 Activating Valuation Areas
738
22.3.2 Assigning Currency Types
740
22.3.3 Maintaining Number Ranges for Material Ledger Documents
740
22.3.4 Automatic Account Determination
741
22.4 Activating the Material Ledger
748
22.5 Reporting in the Material Ledger
750
22.6 Summary
755
23 Classification System
757
23.1 Classification Overview
758
23.1.1 What Is the SAP S/4HANA Classification System?
758
23.1.2 Describing an Object
759
23.2 Characteristics
760
23.2.1 Creating Characteristics
760
23.2.2 Configuring Characteristics
763
23.3 Classes
764
23.3.1 Creating Classes
765
23.3.2 Class Types
766
23.3.3 Class Hierarchies
767
23.4 Object Dependencies
767
23.5 Finding Objects Using Classification
768
23.5.1 Classifying Materials
768
23.5.2 Classifying Objects
769
23.5.3 Finding Objects
770
23.6 Summary
771
Part V Advanced Materials Management
773
24 Document Management System
775
24.1 Configuration Steps
775
24.1.1 Defining a New Number Range
775
24.1.2 Defining the Document Type
776
24.1.3 Document Status
779
24.1.4 Object Links
781
24.2 Document Info Record
783
24.2.1 Creating a Document
784
24.2.2 New Version of DIR
785
24.2.3 Assigning Originals to DIR
785
24.2.4 Document Hierarchy
787
24.2.5 Assigning Object Links
787
24.3 Additional Functionality
789
24.3.1 Additional Data (Classification System)
789
24.3.2 Long Texts
790
24.3.3 Search Functions
790
24.3.4 Document Management in Batches
792
24.3.5 Document Distribution
792
24.3.6 Distribution List
793
24.4 Summary
793
25 Batch Management
795
25.1 Batch Management Overview
795
25.2 Batch Level and Batch Status Management
797
25.2.1 Defining the Batch Level
797
25.2.2 Batch Number Assignment
799
25.2.3 Creating New Batches in the Production Process
800
25.2.4 Batch Creation for Goods Movement
801
25.3 Master Data in Batch Management
802
25.3.1 Activating Batch Management in the Material Master
802
25.3.2 Batch Classification
803
25.3.3 Assigning Classification in the Material Master
804
25.4 Business Processes of Batch Management
805
25.4.1 Creating a Batch Master Manually
806
25.4.2 Changing a Batch
810
25.4.3 Deleting a Batch
810
25.4.4 Automatic Creation of a Batch in Goods Movement
810
25.4.5 Stock Overview
812
25.5 Batch Determination
813
25.5.1 Defining Condition Tables
815
25.5.2 Defining the Access Sequence
818
25.5.3 Defining Strategy Types
819
25.5.4 Defining the Batch Search Procedure
820
25.5.5 Batch Search Procedure Allocation
821
25.5.6 Creating a Sort Sequence
822
25.5.7 Maintaining Condition Records
822
25.5.8 Business Process
824
25.6 Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates
825
25.6.1 QM Master Data Checklist
825
25.6.2 Business Processes
828
25.7 Batch Derivation
831
25.7.1 Configuration Basics
832
25.7.2 Classification in Material Master
832
25.7.3 Business Processes
838
25.7.4 Reporting
841
25.8 Batch Traceability of Work in Progress Batches
842
25.8.1 Configuration Settings
843
25.8.2 Master Data Setup
844
25.8.3 Business Processes
846
25.8.4 Reporting
850
25.9 Reporting
852
25.9.1 Batch Information Cockpit
852
25.9.2 Electronic Batch Record
855
25.10 Summary
856
26 Early Warning System
857
26.1 Overview
858
26.2 Setting Up the Early Warning System
859
26.2.1 Creating Exceptions
860
26.2.2 Grouping Exceptions
866
26.2.3 Setting Up Periodic Analysis
867
26.3 Scheduling an Early Warning System
868
26.4 Early Warning System in Action
869
26.5 Exception Analysis
871
26.6 Summary
872
27 Reporting and Analytics
873
27.1 The Basics of Reporting
873
27.2 Purchasing Reports
874
27.2.1 Purchasing Documents
874
27.2.2 Multiple Selection
875
27.2.3 Report Output
876
27.2.4 Downloading
880
27.2.5 Copying Selective Data to Microsoft Excel
880
27.2.6 Printing
880
27.2.7 Maintaining Selections
880
27.2.8 Maintaining Variants
880
27.2.9 PO History
881
27.3 SAP Fiori Apps for Procurement
883
27.3.1 Procurement Overview
884
27.3.2 Purchase Requisition Average Approval Time
885
27.3.3 Purchasing Spend
886
27.3.4 Spend Analysis
887
27.3.5 Overdue Purchase Order Items
888
27.3.6 Material Price Variance
888
27.3.7 Invoice Price Variance
889
27.3.8 Supplier Evaluation by Time
890
27.3.9 Purchasing Group Activities
891
27.3.10 Invoice Processing Analysis
891
27.3.11 Off-Contract Spend
892
27.3.12 Purchase Order Average Delivery Time
893
27.3.13 Spend Variance
894
27.3.14 My Purchasing Documents Items
895
27.3.15 Monitor Purchase Order Items
895
27.3.16 Monitor Supplier Confirmations
896
27.4 SAP Fiori Apps for Planning
897
27.4.1 Display MRP Master Data Issues
897
27.4.2 Monitor Material Coverage
898
27.4.3 Manage Material Coverage
899
27.4.4 Monitor Internal Requirements
899
27.5 SAP Fiori Apps for Inventory Management
900
27.5.1 Overview Inventory Management
900
27.5.2 Goods Movement Analysis
902
27.5.3 Inventory Turnover Analysis
902
27.5.4 Non-Moving Stock
903
27.5.5 Slow-Moving Stock
904
27.5.6 Physical Inventory Document Overview
905
27.5.7 Manage Stock
905
27.5.8 Material Documents Overview
907
27.5.9 Material Stock on Posting Date
907
27.5.10 Shelf Life List
908
27.6 Summary
909
A Movement Types
911
B The Authors
913
Index
915