Training Details

An intensive 30 hours course covering the details of the major concepts in Materials Management. This course is intended for current or future project members of SAP implementations. This course provides the basis related to all the modules and allows the team members to interact confidently with the implementation team and play a major role in design decisions.

This course is also intended for the current SCM consultants who have good experience in Supply chain side and have been involved in SAP implementations as Logistics/Supply chain / Technical consultants. The course teaches the basic concepts of all the modules, the major transactions and the business functionality.

Pre-Requisites

SAP IBP for S&OP

Course Contents

• Overview of SAP
  • SAP R/3 Basics
  • Business Framework Architecture
• Introduction to Planning in SAP
  • Materials Planning
  • Inventory Planning
  • Production Planning
  • Demand Planning
• Organization Structure in ECC
  • Company codes
  • Plants
  • Storage locations
  • Warehouses
  • Sales org
  • Purchasing Organizations
• Introduction to SAP Procurement Business Cycle
  • Inquiry / RFQ
  • Quotation Evaluation
  • Purchase Requisition
  • Purchase orders
  • Goods Receipts
  • Logistics invoice verification
• Master Data
  • Materials
  • Vendors
  • Info records
• Procure to Pay Process - Basic configuration
  • Basics of procurement
  • Procurement process for stock material
  • Procurement process for consumable material
  • Procurement process for external services;
  • Automated procurement process
  • Analysis in materials management (overview)
  • Master data for purchasing
  • Purchasing Configuration
  • Sources of supply: info records, contracts, and scheduling agreements
  • Source determination
  • Optimized purchasing
  • Special procurement processes
  • Document release (approval) procedure
  • Vendor evaluation
  • Vendor master records
  • Document types
• Inventory Management Configuration
  • Goods receipt
  • Stock transfers/transfer postings
  • Goods issue
  • Reservations
  • Special forms of procurement (subcontracting, consignment, pipeline)
  • Special forms of material valuation (split valuation, non-valuated material)
  • Physical inventory and special inventory procedures: cycle counting and sample-based physical inventory in SAP
  • Reporting in inventory management
  • Selected customizing-settings for inventory management and physical inventory
• Pricing Configuration
  • Elements of the condition technique
  • Price determination
  • Header and group conditions
  • Maintaining conditions
  • Special condition types and functions
  • Conditions for services
  • Variant conditions
  • Subsequent settlement
  • Logistics Invoice Verification
  • Introduction to invoice verification
  • Invoice entry and parking
  • Taxes, cash discounts, and foreign currency
  • Invoices for purchase orders with account assignment
  • Variances with and without reference to an item, invoice blocking reasons
  • Invoice reduction, releasing blocked invoices
  • Delivery costs
  • Subsequent debits and credits
  • Credit memos and cancellations
  • Invoice verification in the background
  • Automated processing
  • GR/IR clearing account maintenance
• MRP Configuration
  • Consumption based planning
  • Demand Planning
  • Demand management (MTS/MTO)
  • Material requirements planning
• Special Business Processes
  • Stock Transfers
  • Consignment
  • Vendor managed inventory
  • Subcontracting
  • Third party procurement etc.
• Introduction to Planning in APO
  • Demand Planning
  • Supply Network Planning
  • Production Planning and Scheduling
  • Deployment
  • Truck Load Builder / STO creation
• Integration with APO