Materials Management

Beginner’s Guide to Daily SAP Purchasing Processes for Reference

This document contains step-by-step self notes with detailed screenshots to SAP Purchasing related daily processes. You can see the list of covered content below:

  • Assign and Process Purchase Requisitions [ME57]
  • View Purchase Orders (ME23N & ME22N) [ME23N]
  • Printing a Purchase Order [ME23N]
  • Open PO Report [ME2L]
  • MRP Rescheduling
  • Finding POs by Part Numbers [ME2M]
  • Locating Vendor Information [XK03]
  • Finding Spend by Supplier [ME2L]
  • Interplant Shipments (MD04) []
  • Blocked Invoices [MRBR] & [FBL1N]
  • Changing Purchase Groups [MD04]
  • Faxing a SAP PO [ME22N]
  • Obsolete Materials [MD04]
  • Changing Lead times [ME32K]
  • Safety Lead Time [MM02] ( MRP2 Tab)
  • No Source List [ME57]
  • Outside Processes – an Example of a process
  • NCMR Process [QM03]
  • Managing Low Value Inventories (Process)
  • MRP and ROP

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SAP MM Material Valuation Basics: Everything You Want to Know

Demonstrating a connection between Materials Management (MM) and Financial Accounting (FI), the
Material Valuation determines and maintains the stock value of a material in SAP.

This document gives an overview of the determination of valuation levels for materials using the valuation area, and the two possible procedures for material valuation. See the content below:

  • The significance of the valuation area
  • The function of the valuation class
  • Material valuation with the moving average price
  • Material valuation with the standard price

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A Reference Study Material on Purchasing Process in SAP

After reading this step-by-step SAP Purchasing Process manual, users will understand the steps in the purchasing process and will learn how to perform each one of them, from creating a requisition to the final step of closing it. See contents below:

Creating and Maintaining Requisitions: learn how to use ME51, ME52, ME52N, and ME53 to create, display and maintain purchase requisitions in SAP
Goods Receipting in SAP: learn how to use MIGO in SAP to goods receipt all orders they have received
Reviewing Purchase Orders: learn how to use ME23N to review information on their Purchase Orders
Purchasing Reports: Participants will learn how to use various purchasing reports to pull important information on their documents

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User Guide to Purchase Requisition Management in SAP MM

Purchase requisition in SAP is a document which is created by purchase department prior to the purchase process.
After completing this material, you will be able to:

  • Use transaction ME51N, ME52N and ME53N for purchase requisitions
  • Create a purchase requisition without a material
  • Create a purchase requisition with a material
  • Create a purchase requisition for a service

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SAP Inventory Planning and Monitoring Manual

The Materials Management module includes two sub-modules; procurement and inventory management. Inventory management entails the planning and control of material stocks by quantity and value. It also includes the planning, data entry and documentation of all goods movements to, from, and within the storage locations in the stock plant. Any transaction that will cause a change of stock is entered in real time and the resulting update of the stock takes place immediately. This provides the user with an overview of the stock level of any material that is always current.

The objective of this document is to provide an overview of the business process for the inventory cycle from the creation of a material master, procurement, [MIGO] goods receipt, [MB1A] goods issue and the physical inventory process.

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SAP MM Case Study: Purchasing Process Training for Beginners

This SAP MM case study (for SAP ECC 6.0) explains an integrated materials management process in detail and thus fosters a thorough understanding of each process step and underlying SAP functionality.

Within a fictitious company, you will take on different roles in order to process a complete purchasing process.. e.g. purchasing agent, warehouse worker, accounting clerk. Overall, you will be working in the Materials Management (MM) and the Financial Accounting (FI) departments.

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