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Negative Stock Configuration in SAP MM

Negative stock is a concept in SAP that allows inventory to be issued or sold even when there is no physical stock available. This can be useful in some scenarios, such as:

  • When there is a delay in updating the inventory records due to technical or operational reasons, but the business needs to continue the sales or production process.
  • When there is a temporary shortage of stock due to high demand or supply disruptions, but the business expects to receive replenishment soon and wants to avoid losing customers or orders.
  • When there is a planned negative stock situation, such as when a consignment vendor delivers goods directly to the customer, but the business still wants to record the sales and revenue in SAP.

This document provides an overview of negative stock handling in SAP MM (Materials Management). It covers the prerequisites and configuration steps required to allow negative stocks at the plant and storage location level. Two scenarios are presented to demonstrate how negative stocks can be utilized when a goods issue needs to be completed before the corresponding goods receipt is posted.

List of topics covered in the document are;

  • What is Negative Stock Handling
  • Prerequisites for Negative Stock Handling
  • Scenario 1: Goods issue with movement type 201, goods receipt with movement type 101
  • Scenario 2: Goods issue with movement type 201, stock transfer between locations with movement type 311
  • Important points to remember about negative stocks

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SAP S/4HANA Condition Contract Management Configuration Guide

Settlement Management in S/4 HANA is crucial for managing the subsequent settlement of rebates for both customers and vendors. The Condition Contract Management feature offers a unified and standardized approach to managing both supplier and customer conditions. It allows for the calculation and posting of accruals as statistical conditions in an FI Extension Ledger. Additionally, pricing conditions can be aligned with value fields in Combined COPA, enabling a comprehensive analysis of Gross-to-Net Revenue.

This document provides an overview of configuring and processing rebates using condition contract management in SAP S/4HANA. An order-to-cash scenario demonstrates creating a sales rebate contract, determining rebate conditions in sales orders, settlements, and analyzing credit memos and accounting postings. Relevant transaction codes, reporting, and tables are listed. Following are key topics covered in the document;

  • Introduction to rebates and condition contract management
  • Configuration steps for pricing, condition types, tables, procedures
  • Condition contract maintenance configurations
  • Settlement configuration for documents and process types
  • End-to-end order-to-cash scenario with rebate condition contract using WCOCO tcode
  • Contract settlement, analyzing credit memos and postings
  • Overview of key transactions, reporting, and tables
  • Conclusion summarizing condition contract rebate management

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Transfer Pricing Concepts and Configuration in SAP S/4HANA

This document provides an overview of transfer pricing concepts and configuration in SAP S/4HANA to manage legal, group, and profit center valuations. It explains the business case, customizing steps like valuation profiles, CO versions, currency types, and material ledger setup. An example scenario demonstrates intercompany purchase orders, postings, cost component views, actual costing runs, and analyzing financial impacts in legal and group valuations.

Key topics covered in the document:

  • Introduction to transfer pricing and multiple valuation approaches
  • Business case for legal, group, and profit center valuations
  • Customizing steps for valuation profiles, CO versions, currency types, material ledger
    • Creating a Currency and Valuation Profile [8KEM]
    • Assigning Currency and Valuation profile to Controlling area [8KEQ]
    • Creating Versions for valuations
    • Currency and Ledger settings in the Universal Journal
    • Assigning Currency type to Material ledger
    • Determining the valuation approach for Clearing Account [8KEN]
    • Standard cost Estimate settings for valuation approach [OKKI, OKKN]
    • Cost Component structure settings for Group valuation [OKTZ]
    • Splitting of Cost of Goods Sold in Parallel Valuation View
    • Activating Multiple Valuation
  • Scenario explaining intercompany purchase orders and postings
  • Viewing cost component and actual costing differences in legal and group valuations
  • Analyzing financial statement impacts in legal and group valuations
  • Summary of transfer pricing capabilities and limitations in S/4HANA

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SAP MM-FI Integration: A Presentation to Understand Key Concepts

This document provides an overview of integration between Materials Management (MM) and Financial Accounting (FI) modules in SAP. It covers fundamentals like goods movements, movement types, transaction keys, and account determination. The process flow from MM transaction to FI journal entry is explained. Configuration, master data setup, and key transaction codes are listed. Exercises demonstrate customizing a new movement type and modifier for specific integration requirements.

Key FI-MM integration topics covered in the document are;

  • Introduction to current FI-MM transactions and processes
  • Fundamentals – goods movements, movement types, transaction keys
  • Understanding MM to FI integration process flow
  • Advanced topics like purchase accounts, variance accounts
  • Configuration and master data for FI-MM integration
  • Key transaction codes
  • Exercises to customize movement type and modifier

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SAP S/4HANA Bank to Bank Transfer: Configuration & End User Guide

This document provides an overview of the bank-to-bank (B2B) transfer process in SAP S/4HANA for transferring funds between bank accounts. It covers configuration steps like defining number ranges, clearing accounts, and repetitive codes. End user steps demonstrate creating repetitive codes, making transfers, approving requests, and verifying accounting documents. Different transfer scenarios such as within company code and cross-company code are explained.

List of main topics covered in the guide:

  • Introduction to bank-to-bank transfers and process overview
  • Key data structures and transfer scenarios
  • Configuration steps for number ranges, clearing accounts, repetitive codes
  • End user steps to create repetitive codes, make transfers, approve, and verify
  • Scenarios demonstrating within company code and cross-company code transfers
  • Overview of accounting impacts
  • Conclusion summarizing the process

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SAP AATP Cookbook: Backorder Processing

This document provides an overview of advanced available-to-promise (AATP) based backorder processing in SAP S/4HANA. It outlines the key changes from ECC and APO, business benefits, process flows, Fiori app setup, and configuration steps. Detailed scenarios demonstrate the five backorder strategies – win, gain, redistribute, fill, lose – and their impact on sales order confirmation.

Key topics covered in the document are:

  • Introduction to AATP backorder processing
  • Changes compared to ECC and APO backorder processing
  • Business benefits of S/4HANA backorder processing
  • Process flow diagram
  • Fiori app setup for backorder processing
  • Configuration steps for AATP and HANA rule framework
  • Backorder strategy examples showing impact on order confirmation
  • Conclusion summarizing the five backorder strategies

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SAP Bank Reconciliation Process: Quick Reference Guide

This quick reference guide (QRG) document provides an overview of the bank reconciliation process as part of cash management in SAP. It outlines the steps to obtain bank statements, classify reconciliation types, process manual and electronic statements, match transactions, complete reconciliations, and correct errors. The process flow, inputs, roles, and responsibilities are explained.

Key topics covered in the guide are:

  • Introduction to bank reconciliation and its role in cash management
  • Process overview – inputs, triggers, steps with process flow chart
  • Obtaining and classifying reconciliation types
  • Processing manual statements in SAP [FF67 tcode]
  • Importing electronic statement files [FF_5 tcode]
  • Manually matching unmatched transactions [FEBAN tcode]
  • Completing bank reconciliation and correcting errors

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