Online Course
Materials Management with SAP S/4HANA: Procurement, Planning, and Inventory
with Jawad Akhtar
08/05/2026 – 09/02/2026
The course in detail:
Master end-to-end materials management in SAP S/4HANA, from enterprise structure to analytics. This course guides you through your essential MM business processes, from sourcing and purchasing to inventory control and valuation. You’ll learn to set up master data, streamline your processes, tweak underlying configuration settings, and harness SAP Fiori apps for real-time visibility and smarter decision-making across your supply chain. Take your seat in the virtual classroom of bestselling Materials Management with SAP S/4HANA author Jawad Akhtar to learn from the best!
What you'll learn:
- Establish the enterprise structure for MM in SAP S/4HANA
- Run essential and extended procurement business processes including their variants
- Leverage planning tools to ensure more optimized procurement processes
- Handle inventory management business processes, including integration
- Embrace SAP Fiori apps for procurement, planning, and inventory management
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 3:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this MM course suitable for?
- Logistics consultants and architects
- Supply chain managers
- Procurement planners
- Inventory managers
Prerequisite: Attendees should have prior knowledge of supply chain topics, basic procurement and inventory understanding, and SAP GUI or SAP Fiori experience. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us
These MM topics will be covered in this course:
- Organizational structure
- Material master data
- Business partner master data
- Procurement master data
- Purchase requisition
- Quotation management
- Purchase orders
- Outline agreements
- External service procurement
- Consumption-based planning
- Inventory management
- Early warning system
- Invoice verification
- Inventory valuation and account assignments
- Reporting and analytics
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Note: Can’t join live? No problem! With your purchase, you’ll receive access to the session recordings and slide decks directly on the learning platform shortly after each session concludes. Learn at your own pace, revisit key concepts, and reinforce your understanding of the topic. Whether live or on demand, this course offers you the opportunity to learn directly from a top SAP expert. Don’t miss out!
Online Courses
MM Foundations and Enterprise Structure
Build the foundation of materials management, and examine the flow of materials, information, and finance data through your SAP S/4HANA system. Focus first on your enterprise structure, and then walk through high-level MM configuration, especially your material master and business partner data.
Topics:
- Material flow
- Information flow
- Financial flow
- Client structure
- Company codes
- Plants and storage locations
- Purchasing organizations
- Purchasing groups
- Material master
- Business partner
- Vendor account groups
- Customer-vendor integration
Procurement Master Data and Basic Processes
Get into the nitty gritty of MM. Create a material master and establish your business partners. Begin to set up your procurement master data and two initial procurement elements: purchase requisitions and requests for quotations.
Topics:
- Classification data
- Purchasing data
- MRP data
- Plant/storage location data
- Sales data
- Work scheduling data
- Forecasting data
- Business partner setup
- Purchasing information record
- Source list
- Pricing conditions
- Quota arrangements
- Purchase requisition
- Request for quotations
Essential and Extended Procurement Processes
Explore key procurement operations in SAP S/4HANA, from purchase orders and outline agreements to subcontracting, stock transport, and consignment. Gain expert insight into efficient supplier collaboration and advanced purchasing scenarios.
Topics:
- Purchase for order management
- Supplier confirmations
- Messages and output
- Supplier evaluations
- Quantity contracts
- Value contracts
- Contract release orders
- Scheduling agreements
- Service master records
- Subcontracting
- Stock transport orders
- Consignment materials
- Pipeline materials
- Serialized materials
Procurement Planning and Inventory Management
Discover how to set up basic material requirements planning, consumption-based planning, and forecast-based planning in SAP S/4HANA. Then dive into different inventory management business processes, and leverage the early warning system (EWS) for timely alerts.
Topics:
- Material requirements planning (MRP) basics
- Consumption-based planning/reorder point planning
- Forecast-based planning
- Stock/requirements list
- Planning areas
- Stock types
- Physical inventory
- Returns
- Material documents
- Reservations
- Goods issuances
- Goods receipts
- Transfer postings
- Early warning system
Financial Integration and SAP Fiori Apps for MM
Understand the connection between materials management and financials. Dig into invoice verification, inventory valuation, and account determination. Learn how SAP Fiori apps help you analyze your processes and improve profitability.
Topics:
- Standard three-way match
- Evaluated receipt settlement
- Credit-memos and reversals
- Subsequent debit/credit
- Inventory valuation and account assignments
- Price control
- Split valuation
- Account determination
- LIFO/FIFO price valuation
- Purchasing reports
- SAP Fiori apps for procurement, planning, and inventory management
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Your Experts
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.
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