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CONTENTS

MM - Overview MM - Purchasing MM - Purchase Order MM - Inventory Management MM - Invoice Verification

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Overview of MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

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Target Group
 Purchase department  Stores department

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Course Objectives
On conclusion of this course, you should be able to:
 Visualize the MM functionalities  Maintain MM related views of Material

Master and vendor master


 Create other master records or changing

the existing master records

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Introduction
 Contents

 MM overview  Organizational Structure  Material master  Vendor master  Other master records
Exercises Solutions

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MM - Overview
 Major components of MM- Module
   

materials planning and control purchasing inventory management invoice verification.

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Integration with other Modules

Procurement Logistics Planning Sales Logistics Production

Finance / Asset Management

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Integrated Business Process Overview

FI
G/L Inventory / GRIR G/L GRIR/ Expense AP Invoice Vendor Payment

SD
Requirement for Goods / Services Purchase Order Goods Receipt Invoice Verification

Financial and Managerial Reporting and Analysis

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Organizational Elements - Client

Client Characteristics
 Highest Hierarchical Level in SAP(e.g. a corporation)  Can be Used to Differentiate between a Development, Quality Assurance, and Production System within R/3  All Areas of an Organization that are to be Integrated into the SAP R/3 Production System should be Included Under one Client

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Organizational Elements - MM

Purchasing Organization
 Responsible for Procurement for One or More Plants  Responsible for Negotiating Pricing and Delivery Terms with Vendors  Purchasing Organization is Assigned to A Company where Inventory is Legally Tracked or Costs are Legally Incurred.

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Organizational Elements - MM

Plant
 Usually a Manufacturing Facility, Warehouse, or a Location that Stocks , Manages, and Valuates Inventory  May be a Physical Site with Multiple Manufacturing/Production Lines  May be Multiple Manufacturing/Production Lines at One Physical Site  Can be a Physical Location(cost centers may or may not be associated to a plant i.e. administrative Vs. manufacturing cost centers)  SD Availability Checking is Normally Done at the Plant Level
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Organizational Elements - MM

Plant (Cont.)
 Links to Production (PP), Materials Management (MM), and Sales and Distribution (SD)  A Plant is Assigned to A Company  Purchasing Organization are Assigned to Plants

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Organizational Elements - MM

Storage Location
 A Location within a Plant where Inventory is Stored

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Master data in MM
 Material Master  Vendor Master  Service Master  Purchasing info record  Source List  Vendor Excise Details  Material and Chapter ID combination  Excise Tax rate

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Material master in SAP.


 The material master contains information on all the materials that a company procures, produces, stores, and sells.  The material master is used by all components in the SAP Logistics System  Different departments in a company work with the same material, so data in a material master record is subdivided in the form of user departments.  Material description and Base unit of measure appear in all user departments.

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Use of material master in SAP logistics system functions.


 In Purchasing for ordering materials.  In Inventory Management for goods movement postings and physical inventory  In Invoice Verification for posting invoices  In FI for maintaining value of material.  In Production Planning and Control for material requirements planning, scheduling, and work scheduling

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User departments using same material master

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Material Numbers
 Definition


Number uniquely identifying a material master record, and thus a material.

 Use


For every material that your company uses, you must create a material master record in the material master. This record is uniquely identified by a material number.

 Internal and External number assignment.

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Industry sector
 It determines type of industry .


Eg. mechanical industry,chemical industry,pharmaceutical etc.

 The industry sector you specify determines


 

Which screens appear and in what sequence Which industry-specific fields appear on the individual screens

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Material Types
 Materials with the same basic attributes are grouped together and assigned to a material type.  When creating a material master record, you must assign the material to a material type. The material type determines certain attributes of the material and has important control functions.  Some of the standard material types are


ROH: Raw materials which are bought from outside and goes into production. Halb :Semi-finished material which are bought externally and manufactured inside. They can be sold individually as well. FERT:Finished materials are final products of the company

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Views relevant to MM

 Basic data1  Purchasing  Purchase order text  Storage 1  Storage 2

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CREATING MATERIAL MASTER IN SAP


 From logistics screen click


Logistics p Materials Management p material master, to bring up material master screen. Click material pcreate(general) pimmediately

 Organizational levels.
 

Plant Storage location

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Material master
 In Purchasing screen you can enter
  

Purchasing group purchasing value key Set indicator for automatic PO

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Material master
 In purchase order text screen,


you can enter the text , which will be defaulted in PO every time when you create a PO for this material.

 In Storage 1 you can enter,


   

Storage bin Unit of issue Shelf life data Batch management

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Concept of vendor master in SAP.


 vendor master record is maintained by both Accounting and Purchasing.

 A vendor can be a one time vendor or regular vendor  A vendor master record contains the vendors name and address, as well as data such as:
y y y

the currency used for ordering from the vendor terms of payment names of important contact persons (sales staff)

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Organization of vendor master records


 A vendor master record is subdivided into three different data areas:


General Data Company code data Purchasing organization data

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Creating vendor master record.


 Menu Path


Logistics -> Material management -> purchasing ->master data vendor ->purchasing ->create

 In the initial screen you can enter,


  

Vendor number (For External number assignment ) Vendor account group Purchasing organization

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Creating vendor master record.


 In general data you can maintain,
  

Address Control Payment transactions

 In Purchasing organization data you can maintain,


 

Purchasing Data Partner functions

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Changing vendor master record


 You cannot change Vendor account group (One time vendor cannot be converted in to a regular vendor)  Blocking a vendor  Flag for deletion  Changing other options
   

Automatic PO Vendor schema group Payment terms Discount

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Service Master Records


 Descriptions of all services that may need to be procured can be stored.  The organizational level at which services are procured is the purchasing organization.  In addition to a unique description of the service, a service master record contains further information that is necessary for procurement purposes (such as texts or units of measure).

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Service master records


 You can store price information at various levels: for example, $100 per hour as the "market" or "own estimated" price, $98 as vendor Acmes price and $105 as vendor Zeniths price for service A.  The individual service master records can be grouped into different service types (e.g. trades or activities).

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Creating a service master record


 In the initial screen you can enter
 

Service number (if external number assignment) Service category

 In the Basic data screen enter,


  

Base unit of measure Description of services Valuation class (3200 for services)

 In the classification screen enter,




The class for classifying the services

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Concept of Purchasing info rec in SAP.


 An info record represents a material-vendor relationship.  The info record contains concise information about a vendor and a material that you already procure from that vendor.  Info records are created automatically when you order a material. You can also create, change, and delete info records.

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Purchasing info rec (Contd)


 Use of Purchasing info rec in PO creation


Net price for the item will be defaulted in PO

All the pricing conditions will be defaulted other uses include

   

Remainders Delivery tolerance Shelf life Purchase order text

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Purchasing info rec (Contd)


 Use of info rec in Vendor evaluation
Order price history Quotation price history Delivery reliability Quantity reliability

   

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Concept of source list in SAP


 A source list specifies the possible sources of supply for a material over a given period of time  It shows the time period in which a material may be ordered from a given vendor  Source list can be created automatically using generate source list option  Source list can also be maintained manually.

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Source List (Contd)


 Uses of source list
  

Fixed vendor Vendor blocking Auto PO creation

 Source list requirement at plant level




Can be made mandatory

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Master Data for India Version


 Chapter ID
  

Excise Law Chapters, Headings and subheadings Example 7216.10

 72 - Iron and Steel  16 - Angles, shapes and sections


 Material and Chapter ID combination  Material assessable value
 

Net dealer price Material assessable value

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Tables for excise purpose (contd..)


 MODVAT Determination
 

Input material MODVAT output material MODVAT

 Vendor Excise details  SSI Rates  Excise Tax rates

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MM - Purchasing

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Target Group
 Purchase department

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Course Objectives
On conclusion of this course you should be able to
 Understand the concepts in SAP -

Purchasing component
 Create or change PRs  Create, change or compare RFQs  Create contracts

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Introduction
 Contents

 Purchasing overview  Purchase requisitions  Request for quotations  Outline agreements

Exercises Solutions

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Purchasing - overview
 The Purchasing component has the following tasks:
y y

external procurement of materials and services determination of possible sources of supply for a requirement identified by the materials planning and control system determination of possible sources of supply for a requirement arising directly within a user department monitoring of deliveries and payments to vendors

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Purchasing - integration with other modules


 Integration


Controlling (CO)

 Purchase orders for materials intended for direct consumption  They can be directly assigned to a cost center or a production
order.


Financial Accounting (FI)

 Vendor master is maintained by both accounting and purchasing


departments.

 Through PO account assignment, Purchasing can also specify

which G/L accounts are to be charged in the financial accounting system.

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Purchasing - integration with other modules




Sales and Distribution (SD)

 Within the framework of materials planning and control, a

requirement that has arisen in the Sales area can be passed on to Purchasing. sales order.

 When a requisition is created, it can be directly assigned to a

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Process flow in purchasing


 Determination of Requirements


Materials requirements are identified either in the user departments or via materials planning and control. It includes both MRP proper and the demand-based approach to inventory control. The regular checking of stock levels of materials defined by master records, use of the order-point method, and forecasting on the basis of past usage are important aspects of the demand management. You can enter purchase requisitions yourself, or they can be generated automatically by the materials planning and control system.

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Process flow in purchasing


 Source Determination


The Purchasing component helps in identifying potential sources of supply based on past orders and existing longer-term purchase agreements. This speeds the process of creating requests for quotation (RFQs)

 Vendor Selection and Comparison of Quotations




The system is capable of simulating pricing scenarios, allowing you to compare a number of different quotations. Rejection letters can be sent automatically.

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Process flow in purchasing


 Purchase Order Processing


The Purchasing system adopts information from the requisition and the quotation to help you create a purchase order. You can generate Pos yourself or have the system generate them automatically. Vendor scheduling agreements and contracts are also supported.

 Purchase Order Follow-Up


 

The system checks the reminder periods you have specified System automatically prints reminders or expediters at the predefined intervals. It provides you with an up-to-date status of all purchase requisitions, quotations, and purchase orders.

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Process flow in purchasing


 Goods Receiving and Inventory Management


Goods Receiving personnel can confirm the receipt of goods simply by entering the Po number. By specifying permissible tolerances, buyers can limit over- and underdeliveries of ordered goods.

 Invoice Verification

 The system supports the checking and matching of invoices.  Invoice verification can be based on purchase orders or GR
documents or directly to a vendor without any document reference.

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Std. Menu options in Purchasing


 Create
  

Use this option to create a purchasing document . Enter the required information and save the document . The document is then stored under a unique number.

 Change
 

Use this option to change a purchasing document . You need the document number in order to access the document.

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Std. Menu options in Purchasing


 Display
 

Use this option to display a purchasing document . You cannot change or add any information to the document that is displayed . You need the document number in order to access the document.

 List displays/reporting


You can use these options to generate reports analyzing purchasing documents Example

 List of all purchase orders for Vendor ABC

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Std. Menu options in Purchasing


 Follow-on functions


This option allows you to perform tasks related to (following on from) but not included in the purchasing functionality. Example

 Entering a goods receipt or an invoice in the system.


 Messages


This option enables you to print or transmit documents in message form Example

 Transmission via fax, Printouts etc

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Purchasing Documents
 Definition


A purchasing document is an instrument used by Purchasing to procure materials or services.

 Types of purchasing documents




Request for quotation (RFQ)

 Transmits a requirement defined in a requisition for a material or


service to potential vendors .


Quotation

 Contains a vendor's prices and conditions  It is the basis for vendor selection.

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Purchasing Documents


Purchase order (PO)

 The buying entitys request or instruction to a vendor (external


supplier) to supply certain materials or render/perform certain services/works,

 It formalises a purchase transaction .


 Contract


In the SAP Purchasing component, a type of "outline agreement", or longer-term buying arrangement . The contract is a binding commitment to procure a certain material or service from a vendor over a certain period of time.

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Purchasing documents
 Structure


Each purchasing document is subdivided into two main areas:

 The header
 

The header contains information relevant to the whole document . Example, information about the vendor and the document number is contained in the document header

 The individual items .


 

The items specify the materials or services to be procured . Example, The material description and the order quantity are specified in each item.

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Purchasing documents


The additional data

 It provides extra information about the item, and has no direct


connection with the item procurement data.

 Example,
 

account assignment data PO history for an item, which contains information on already recorded goods and invoice receipts relating to the item.

 Classification of Purchasing Documents




Purchasing documents are differentiated in the SAP system via the document type . Example, relevant number range depends on document types

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Purchasing documents


Document types are defined for RFQs, purchase orders, and contracts

 Numbering of purchasing documents


 

Each document is assigned a unique number . This number can be assigned internally or externally , depending on the policy . Internal number assignment means that the system assigns the number. External number assignment means that the person creating the document must supply it. Alphanumeric assignment is only possible in the latter case.

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Purchase requisitions
 Definition


A purchase requisition is a request or instruction to Purchasing to procure a certain quantity of a material so that it is available at a certain point in time. It is an internal document.

 Requisitions can be created in the following ways:




Directly: Someone from the requesting department enters a purchase requisition manually. Indirectly: The purchase requisition is created via another SAP component.

 Purchase requisitions can be subject to a release procedure.


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Purchase requisitions - integration


 Requisitions can be created indirectly in the following ways:


via materials planning and control

 The component Consumption-Based Planning suggests


materials that need to be ordered on the basis of past consumption or usage figures and existing stock levels. automatically.

 The order quantity and the delivery date are determined  Materials planning and control can stipulate that a purchase
requisition is to be resubmitted to the purchasing department if it has not been processed after a predefined period of time.

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Purchase requisitions - integration


 Requisitions are generated automatically from production orders if


They contain an external processing operation (e.g. subcontracting work) A precondition is that the control key for the operation allows or prescribes external processing. they contain non-stock components

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Purchase requisitions
 Procurement types
 

Standard Subcontracting

 Components to be provided can be entered.


  

Consignment Stock transfer External service

 Service specifications can be entered

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Manual creation of PR
 Things to remember
       

Item category Account assignment category Purchasing organization Purchasing group Requirement tracking number Delivery date Item with or with out material master record Order quantity

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Creating Request For Quotation


 Automatically from PR  Manually
 

With reference to PR With out reference to PR

 Delivery address


Address of the company asking for quotation, by default it is the address of E+L. But it can be changed.

 vendor address


Just enter the codes of the vendor, System will take other details from vendor master.

 Quotation dead line  Delivery date


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RFQ (contd)
 Printing RFQ  Send the Printed RFQ to the vendors  Receive the quotation from the vendor  Maintain the RFQ
   

Enter the net price quoted by the vendor Enter the pricing conditions Terms of payment Update the info record if reqd

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Quotations
 Compare the quotations
    

Maintain the collective number in the RFQs Quotations can be compared based on price Discounts and delivery costs can be included Comparison can be based on effective price also System compares and gives the ranking list

 Percentage basis for comparing quotations


  

Mean value equals 100% Maximum value equals 100% Minimum value equals 100%

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Outline agreements with the vendor


 To Setup longer-term purchasing arrangements with vendors regarding the supply of materials or the performance of services.

 Outline agreements can be subject to a release (approval or clearance) procedure.

 Agreement types
 

Quantity contract Value contract

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Outline agreements
 Structure


Document header: containing information relating to the entire agreement. For example, the vendor information and header conditions are in the document header Items: containing the information specific to the relevant material or service.
   statistics on ordering activities for the item quantity or price of the item conditions, such as quantity discounts and surcharges

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Outline agreements
 Texts in Outline Agreements
  

Header texts Item texts You can create your own text types

 Creating a outline agreement




Outline agreement can be created with reference to a RFQ or without any reference Important terms

 Purchasing organization  Purchase group

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Outline agreements
 Target quantity  Target Value  Pricing conditions  Validity starting and ending date  Vendor address  Delivery address  Remainders

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MM - PURCHASING

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Target Group
 Purchase department

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Course Objectives
On conclusion of this course, you should be able to
 Create a new PO  Make changes to existing PO  Print PO  Navigate through purchasing information

system

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Introduction
 Contents

 Creating POs  Printing of POs  Printing Remainders  Changing or canceling POs  Purchasing information
Exercises Solutions

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Purchase order
 Definition


Formal request or instruction from a purchasing organization to a vendor or a plant to supply or provide a certain quantity of goods or services at or by a certain point in time.

 Structure
  

Header items Additional data

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Creating a Purchase order


 Automatically from PR
      

Set automatic PO indicator for material and vendor Maintain Purchasing info record Maintain source list Fixed vendor PR from MRP or Manually created PR Assign manually or automatically Process the assigned PR to create PO

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Create PO - Manually
 Manually creating a PO


With reference to PR

      

Select the PRs Select the items from PR Copy the items in to PO Enter the vendor Enter the prices and pricing conditions Requirement tracking number Update the info record if reqd

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Create PO


With reference to RFQ

     

Select RFQ Select the items Copy the selected items in to PO Enter the Price and pricing conditions Update the info record if reqd. Acknowledgement and confirmations

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Create PO


With out any reference

 In this case you need to enter


       

Vendor code Delivery date Item category Account assignment category (if reqd) Requirement tracking number Order type ( NB For std purchase order) Plant ( 4000 - default plant ) Storage location

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Creating a PO (contd)
 Important terms in PO


Vendor

 For creating a PO you need to enter vendor code  Vendor master should exist for this purpose  if you dont want to maintain all the details for a vendor you can
create a one time vendor


Item category

 Standard  Subcontracting  service

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Create PO (Contd)


Account assignment category

 Specification of the account assignment objects that are charged


in the case of a purchase order for a material that is intended for direct usage or consumption.

 Examples
   

Asset Sales order Production order Cost center

 Types of account assignment


 

Single account assignment Multiple account assignment

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Create PO (contd)


Delivery date

 Date format
  

Day format Week format Month format

 Delivery date entered here is only expected delivery date  You can also specify a statistical delivery date

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Create PO (contd)


Units of measure in PO


The order unit


 This is the unit you specify in connection with the order quantity.

The order price unit


  This is the unit that applies in connection with the net price and which is taken as the basis for invoice verification. If the order price unit does not correspond to the order unit, and if no conversion factor is specified in the system, you must enter a conversion factor on the item detail screen.

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Create PO (Contd)
 Example for units of measure in PO
     

Order quantity Order unit Gross price per unit Order price unit (number) Order price unit (of measure) Conversion factor 24 boxes 1

24 Box $10

kg 1 kg

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Create PO (Contd)


Conditions

 This component enables you to store pricing stipulations agreed


with the vendor

 Examples are applicable discounts or surcharges, or stipulations


regarding the payment of freight costs in the system.

 There are three kinds of price in Purchasing:




Gross price
 Price without taking any possible discounts and surcharges into account

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Create PO (Contd)


Net price
 Price taking any applicable discounts and surcharges into account

Effective price
 Net price after deduction of cash discount, with allowance for any miscellaneous provisions, delivery costs, and non-deductible taxes.

Terms of Payment

 Example
 

Within 14 days 2% discount Within 30 days due net

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Create PO (Contd)


Inco terms

 Incoterms are internationally-recognized terms of delivery  Example




reflecting the standards set by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

FOB - Free On Board. This means that the buyer has to bear all costs and risks of loss of or damage to the goods from that point. You can specify Incoterms for an order item that differ from those in the PO header.

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Creating PO from outline agreement


 In the initial screen for Create PO,
 

Select the Outline agreement and items Copy the items in PO

 In the item overview screen


 

Enter the quantity If the quantity exceeds the target quantity system gives a warning

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Texts in PO
 Header texts  Header note  Pricing types  Dead lines  Terms of delivery  Shipping instructions  Terms of payments  warranties  Penalties for breach of contract
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Confirmations
 Purpose


This component can be used, if you wish to have your vendor provide you with various kinds of confirmation regarding delivery dates and quantities It enables you to base your materials planning and control activities on more up-to-date data than that contained in purchase orders.

 Confirmation control key  Shipping notification  Order acknowledgement

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Shipping notification
 Shipping Notification  Definition


A vendors confirmation to a purchasing organization of the delivery date for a certain quantity of ordered materials It can be for the date of performance of ordered services also.

 Structure


A shipping notification consists of several items in which the notified (confirmed) quantity of the material or service is specified.

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Confirmations from the Viewpoint of IM


 When you post goods receipts, there are several ways of finding the associated purchase orders.

 Enter the PO number  Enter the shipping notification number  Enter the transport identification code
 If you establish a link via the PO number itself, the relationship is unique


i.e. one goods receipt (GR) against one purchase order

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Confirmations from the Viewpoint of IM


 If you enter the number of the shipping notification
 

The system selects all purchase orders containing this number System suggests the notified quantities for the GR document.

 Prerequisites


If you wish to match up GRs against POs via the shipping notification number ,

 shipping notification must exist as a separate document.

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Releasing the PO
 Release Procedure for External Purchasing Documents


External purchasing documents (i.e. purchasing documents other than requisitions) are released at header level. Item-by-item release is not possible. These documents can only be released using the release procedure with classification.

 

 Release Conditions


The release conditions determine the release strategy in accordance with which a PO is to be released.


If a PO does not meet the conditions for a release strategy, it is automatically released for further processing.

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Release procedure
 Release Strategy


The release strategy defines the approval process for purchasing documents. The strategy specifies the release codes necessary and the sequence in which releases have to be effected. A maximum of eight release codes can be defined. The assignment of the release strategy to a purchasing document is based on the release conditions.

 

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Release procedure
 Release Code


Definition

 The release code is a two-character ID allowing a person to


via a system of authorizations.

release (clear, or approve) an external purchasing document.

 Who may work with which release codes is basically controlled


 Release Prerequisites


The release prerequisites indicate the sequence in which PO must be approved via the release codes.

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Printing a PO
 Menu path


Purchase order -> Header -> Messages

 Data required
  

Output type Medium Communication method

 Select the printer




Further Data

 Repeat output  Change output


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Printing the remainders


 Types of expediting letters


Remainders

 A negative number of days means that a reminder is to be issued


to the vendor n days prior to the delivery date


Urging letters

 A positive number of days means that a letter or message urging


delivery is to be issued n days after the due date.

 Message type - MAHN (Dunning letter)

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Changing and blocking POs




If you change a PO after it has been sent to the vendor, a change document is generated that can be sent to the vendor.

 This tells the vendor what you have changed.




If the goods have already been delivered, then the changes you can make to the PO are limited.

 For example, you cannot change the quantity to one that is less
than the quantity delivered.


If the invoice has been received or the goods have been paid for, and your intended change affects the price, the change will be ineffective.

 You can display the PO history for an item to determine whether


deliveries have been received or the item has been invoiced.

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Purchasing information
 List displays


List of POs for a vendor or for a range of vendors

 This gives the details of the purchase order like still to be


delivered, still to be invoiced etc.
  

List of POs for a material or for a range of materials List of POs for a account assignment List of POs for a requirement tracking number

 Reporting
  

General analyses Order value analyses Subcontracting stocks per vendor

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Purchasing information
 Material
    

Purchasing values Purchasing quantities On time delivery Qty reliability Frequencies

 Vendor  Material group  Purchasing group

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MM - Inventory management

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Target Group
 Purchase department  Stores department

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Course Objectives
On conclusion of this course, you should be able to
 Do planned and unplanned goods receipts  Do Issue of Goods  Do transfer posting of goods  Manage stocks of the company on both

quantity and value basis

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Introduction
 Contents

 Overview  Integration with other modules  Type of stocks  Concept of material documents  Goods movements  Movement type concept

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Inventory management - overview

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What is inventory management ?


 SAP's Inventory Management system allows you to

 manage your stocks on a quantity and value basis




The stocks are managed not only on a quantity basis but also by value - a prerequisite for cost accounting. With every goods movement, the following values are updated:
   the stock value for inventory management the account assignment for cost accounting the corresponding G/L accounts for financial accounting via automatic account assignment

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What is inventory management ?




Planning, Entry, and Proof of Goods Movements

 Goods movements include




external movements (goods receipts from external procurement, goods issues for sales orders) internal movements (goods receipts from production, withdrawals of material for internal purposes, stock transfers, and transfer postings). For each goods movement a document is created which is used by the system to update quantities and values and serves as proof of goods movements.

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Integration with other modules


 Integration in Materials Management (MM)


As a component of Materials Management, Inventory Management is directly linked with Material Requirements Planning , Purchasing, and Invoice Verification. Inventory Management forms the basis for material requirements planning, which takes into account not only physical stocks but also planned movements (requirements, receipts). Quantities and values from the purchase order and the goods receipt document are checked to ensure conformity with those in the invoice.

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Integration with other modules


 Integration in Production Planning (PP)


Inventory Management is closely linked to the Production Planning module:




Inventory Management is responsible for staging of the components required for production orders

Goods issue against production orders

The receipt of the finished products into the warehouse is posted in Inventory Management.

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Integration with other modules


 Integration in Sales & Distribution (SD)


As soon as you enter a sales order, you can initiate a dynamic availability check of stocks on hand. When the delivery is created, the quantity to be delivered is marked as "Scheduled for delivery."It is deducted from the total stock when the goods issue is posted. It is also possible to create sales order stocks. These SD transactions are depicted in the Sales & Distribution system.

 

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Integration with other modules


 Integration in Quality Management (QM)


In the case of a goods movement, the system determines whether the material is subject to an inspection operation. If so, a corresponding activity is initiated for the movement in the Quality Management system.

 Financial Accounting (FI)




Automatic account assignment, a procedure during which the system determines the accounts relevant for the given goods movements.

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Integration with other modules


 Controlling (CO)

 The interface to the cost accounting system is activated in the


case of material consumption

 For example, when materials are issued for various account


assignment objects such as orders or cost centers. assigned directly to cost centers or orders.

 Cost accounting is also involved when goods receipts are

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IM - Material Master
 Relevant views


Accounting

 Price and accounting information.  Examples:


 

type of price control valuation class.

Materials Planning

 Information for materials planning.  Examples:




safety stock, reorder level, availability check.

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IM - Material Master
 Purchasing
 

Procurement information for a material. Examples:


  overdelivery and underdelivery tolerances purchasing order unit of measure (order unit).

 Storage
 

Information for warehousing and storing the material. Example:


  unit of issue storage conditions, fixed bin location

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IM - Material Master


Quality Management

 Information for sampling and inspecting a material.  Examples:




indicator for goods receipt via quality inspection

Work Scheduling

 Information for producing the material.  Examples:


 

production unit overdelivery and underdelivery tolerances allowed.

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IM - Data Required
 For Inventory Management, you must maintain the following data:


Plant data

 This data can be maintained via different views (for example, via
Purchasing, Storage, Work scheduling). the organizational level plant.

 You have to maintain at least one view that requires the entry of


Valuation data

 Valuation data is required for managing the stock by value.  You maintain this data via the Accounting view.

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IM - Data Required


Storage location data

 You maintain the storage location data via the Storage view.  If a material is located in a storage location, the storage data for

that storage location must exist in the material master record, so that the system can manage the stock quantities at storagelocation level.

Storage data can be manually entered when the material master record is created It can be automatically created during the first goods movement in that storage location.

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Types of stocks
 Total valuated stock
 

Sum of all valuated stocks of a material. It consists of all the types of stock your company owns.

 Unrestricted-use stock


Company's own stock that is physically located in the warehouse, valuated, and not subject to any kind of usage restrictions.

 quality inspection stock




Company's own stock that is in quality inspection.

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Types of stocks


Stock in quality inspection is valuated but does not count as unrestricted-use stock. For MRP, it is either available or not available, depending on how the system is set.

 Blocked stock
 

Company's own stock that should not be used. It does not count as unrestricted-use stock for Inventory Management It is usually not available for MRP.

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Types of stocks
 Restricted-use stock


Valuated stock of a material managed in batches held by a company (and belonging to that company) Usage of this stock is subject to certain restrictions. This category of stock is only used when batch status management is active.

 Blocked stock returns


 

Stock that was returned by the customer and conditionally accepted. It is neither valuated nor does it count as unrestricted-use stock.

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Types of stocks
 stock in transfer


Quantity that was already withdrawn from stock at the issuing location but that has not yet arrived at the receiving location Stock in transfer is managed in the valuated stock of the receiving location, but it does not yet count as unrestricted-use stock.

 Stock in transit


Stock in transfer that is created in the case of a stock transfer via a stock transport order.

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Types of stocks
 Available stock


Dynamic stock that is calculated by MRP taking any receipts, issues, the current available stocks into account. Which requirements, receipts, and issues are included in the availability check is defined in the Customizing system.

 Reserved stock
  

Sum of all quantities of a material that are reserved for withdrawal. Reserved stock is usually not available from the point of view of MRP For Inventory Management it still counts as unrestricted-use stock.

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Types of stocks
 Planned receipts


Sum of all quantities whose receipt has been planned with reservations. Planned receipts are usually already available from the point of view of MRP For Inventory Management they do not yet count as unrestricted-use stock.

 Open PO quantity (total)


  

Sum of all outstanding PO quantities for a material. The open PO quantity usually increases available stock in MRP It does not increase unrestricted-use stock in Inventory Management.

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Types of stocks
 Open order quantity (total)
  

Sum of all outstanding order quantities for a material. The open order quantity usually increases available stock in MRP It does not increase unrestricted-use stock in Inventory Management

 Goods receipt blocked stock




Sum of all quantities of a material that were delivered by vendors for purchase orders and that have been conditionally accepted. GR blocked stock is neither valuated nor does it count as unrestricted-use

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Types of stocks
 Stock scheduled for delivery


Sum of all current deliveries to customers for which goods issues have not yet been posted. Like reserved stock, stock scheduled for delivery is usually not available from the point of view of MRP It counts as unrestricted-use stock for Inventory Management.

 Negative stocks


Negative stocks are required if, for example, goods issues are entered before the corresponding goods receipts for organizational reasons and the material is already physically located in the warehouse.

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Batch management
 With batch handling, you can manage not only production lots from in-house production, but also production lots from vendors as separate entities.  Before you can manage batches of a material in stock, you must first specify in the material master record that the material is to be managed in batches for the specified plant.  To do this, you must set the batch management requirement indicator in the material master record  At the time of goods receipt system will allocate the batch number

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Goods movements
 Definition of Goods Movement


A goods movement is an event that causes a change in stock.

 Good receipt


A goods receipt (GR) is a goods movement with which the receipt of goods from a vendor or from production is posted.

 Goods issue


A goods issue (GI) is a goods movement with which a material consumption, or a shipment of goods to a customer is posted.

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Goods movements
 Stock Transfer


Transfer of material from one plant to other plant or from one storage location to other storage location

 Transfer Posting
 

changes in stock type or stock category of a material. Examples of transfer postings are:
  

Transfer Postings From Material to Material Release from quality inspection stock Transfer of consignment material into company's own stock

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The document concept


 When posting a goods movement in the SAP System, the following documents are created:


Material document

 a material document is generated that serves as proof of the


movement


Accounting document

 If the movement is relevant for Financial Accounting an


accounting document is created


Cost accounting Document

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Movement types
 Movement Type


When you enter a goods movement in the system, you must enter a movement type to differentiate between the various goods movements. A movement type is a three-digit identification key for a goods movement. Examples

 Goods receipt for a purchase order 101  Goods issue for a cost center  Release from quality inspection stock

201 321

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Movement types
 Control Functions of the Movement Type


The movement type has important control functions in Inventory Management. For example, the movement type plays an important role in
  

updating of quantity fields updating of stock and consumption accounts determining which fields are displayed during entry of a document in the system

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Material documents
 Changing a Material Document
 

you can not change a document once it has been posted. If you made a typing error when entering a goods movement you must reverse the movement with a reversal document Although you cannot change a posted document, you can use the function "Change Material Document" to

 enter additional information for the document.  print a goods receipt/issue slip for the document

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Planning goods receipts


 Referencing Document During Entry of Goods Movement


The documents used to plan goods receipts serve as reference documents for entering the goods movement

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GR for purchase order

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Return Deliveries
 When you enter the return delivery, you should reference the purchase order or the material document, so that the system can


suggest data (for example, the storage location), to simplify data input perform certain checks (the returned quantity must not exceed the delivered quantity) reduce the quantity delivered to-date reverse other updates that occurred (for example, for goods receipt into consumption) when the goods receipt was entered

 

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Shelf Life Expiration Date Check


 When you enter a goods receipt, it is possible to check the shelf life of a material.  Prerequisites


The shelf life is only checked if the following prerequisites are met:


The minimum remaining shelf life is maintained in the material master record or in the purchase order. The minimum remaining shelf life is the minimum number of days for which the material must keep for the goods receipt to be accepted by the system. .

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Other goods receipts


 initial entry of stock balances  external goods receipts without a purchase order  internal goods receipts without a production order  goods receipts of by-products  deliveries free of charge  returns from the customer

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Reservations

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Goods issue for an order

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Results of a Goods Issue Posting


 A goods issue has the following results in the system:
       

material document is created accounting document is created Creation of a Goods Receipt/Issue Slip Stock Update Update of G/L Accounts Consumption Update Reservation Update Order Update

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Printing documents

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MM - INVOICE VERIFICATION

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Target Group
 Purchase department  Stores department  Finance department

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Course Objectives
On conclusion of this course, you should be able to
 Enter and verify vendors invoice  Enter and verify vendors excise invoice  Devalue materials  Carry out physical inventory

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Introduction
 Contents

 Invoice entry and verification  Credit memo  Excise invoice  Material devaluation  Physical inventory  Inventory management information
Exercises Solutions

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MM - invoice verification
 Invoice Verification in Materials Management serves the following purposes:
 

It completes the materials procurement process It allows invoices that do not originate in materials procurement (for example, services, expenses, course costs, etc.) to be processed It allows credit memos to be processed, either as invoice cancellations or discounts

 Invoice Verification does not handle the payment or the analysis of invoices.  The information required for these processes is passed on to A/C department.

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Invoice verification
 Invoice Verification tasks include:

 Entering invoices and credit memos that have been received  Checking the accuracy of invoices with respect to contents,
prices, and arithmetic

 Executing the account postings resulting from an invoice  Updating certain data in the SAP system, for example, open
items and material prices

 Checking invoices that were blocked because they varied too


greatly from the purchase order

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Types of Invoice Verification


 As a rule, an invoice refers to a transaction for which the issuing party requests payment.  Invoice Verification differs depending on the type of invoice involved:


Invoices based on purchase orders

 With purchase-order-based Invoice Verification, all the items of a


purchase order can be settled together,


Invoices based on goods receipt

 With goods-receipt-based Invoice Verification, each individual


goods receipt is invoiced separately.

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Types of Invoice Verification




Invoices without an order reference

 When there is no reference to a purchase order, it is possible to


post the transaction directly to

 a material account  a G/L account  or an asset account.

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Data required for invoice verification


 The key data required for Invoice Verification is
 

Master data Transaction data

 Material data


Material data is information on the materials bought or produced in the company

 Vendor data


Vendor data provides information on the suppliers a company deals with.

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Data required for invoice verification


 Accounting data


Accounting data is used to define G/L accounts

 Transaction data
   

Transaction data records transactions or events in the SAP system. Purchasing document Material document Accounting document

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Invoice data
 An invoice contains various information, such as:
  

Who issued the invoice? Which transaction does the invoice refer to? How much tax do you have to pay?

 If the invoice refers to a particular transaction, the system will automatically retrieve information pertaining to the transaction
  

Terms of payment Quantities to be invoiced The amounts the system expects per item

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Screens for Invoice Verification


 The initial screen

 This contains general data such as


  

company code currency invoice reference.

 The vendor screen

 This contains data on the vendor  The terms of payment  taxes.

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Screens for Invoice Verification


 The selection screen

 This lists the items of the transaction specified on the initial


screen.

 The layout of the selection screen depends on whether the


invoice is based on a purchase order or a goods receipt.


Invoice Based on a Purchase Order


  All the purchase order items are listed. The quantity that is still to be billed (i.e. the difference between the quantity delivered and the quantity invoiced so far) appears as a default in the Quantity column.

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Screens for Invoice Verification


 Invoice Based on a Goods Receipt


Goods-receipt-based invoice verification must have been defined in the purchase order. If the GR-IV field on the item screen in the purchase order is not selected, the goods receipt cannot be settled in this way. There are two ways of finding the correct transaction in goodsreceipt-based Invoice Verification: You can enter a delivery note number or a GR document number and the system will list the items for the goods receipts on the selection screen; you can enter a purchase order number and the system will list all the GR documents

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Parking the invoice


 Preliminary Posting


You can enter an invoice (or a credit memo) without posting it and simply "park" it. If you park an invoice or a credit memo the system does not make any postings. A parked document can be changed as often as you like. When data is added or changed, the changes are noted by the system. When no further changes are required, you can then post the parked document.

 

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Parking the invoice


 The preliminary posting function can be of great advantage if:


You are interrupted when entering an invoice. You can park the document and continue processing it later on. This saves you time having to enter the data twice. You wish to clear up some questions before you post an invoice. You can park the document and continue processing it later on. You wish to split the Invoice Verification process. One employee can, for example, park an invoice without checking it, while another carries out the actual checks and posts the document after making any necessary corrections.

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Data Update When Posting an Invoice


 When you post an invoice, the system carries out the account movements and updates the following


The system generates a Financial Accounting document that displays the accounts involved in the posting and the amounts posted to these accounts. The system creates a purchase order statistic for each item in the purchase order. The moving average price is updated in the material master record If the invoiced price differs from the price in the purchase order for a material with moving average price control

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Blocking the invoice


 When an invoice is blocked, Financial Accounting cannot pay the invoice.  The invoice must first be released in a separate step before it can be processed.  Variances in an Invoice Item
    

Quantity variance (M) Price variance (P) Variance in order price quantity (G) Schedule variance (T) Quality inspection (I)

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Credit memos
 The term credit memo always refers to a credit memo from the vendor.  Posting a credit memo always leads to a debit posting to the vendor account.  Two types of credit memos are possible:

 Credit memos that refer to a purchase order or goods receipt  Credit memos that do not refer to a transaction.
 Processing of credit memos is same as invoice verification

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Types of Delivery Costs

 In the SAP System, there are two types of delivery costs:

 Planned delivery costs




They are entered in the purchase order. Provisions are set up for the relevant costs at goods receipt. The delivery costs posted at goods receipt can be referenced at invoice entry.

 Unplanned delivery costs




They are only entered when the invoice is entered. No provision is made at goods receipt.

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Creating a excise invoice


 Transaction J1IA  Required entries
   

Purchase order number Excise group Vendors Excise invoice number Excise invoice date

 In the details screen you can change


  

Description Quantity Excise duty

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Valuation - Lowest value determination


 The Lowest Value Principle


The lowest value principle is a method of valuating material stocks for balance sheet purposes. The aim of this method is to valuate stocks as accurately as possible according to the recognition-of-loss principle. Profits that exist solely on the books as a result of changes in market prices are to be avoided. Expected losses are included in the balance sheet.

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Lowest value determination


 Methods


In the SAP System there are various methods of determining tax or commercial prices:

 lowest value determination based on current market prices




system searches for the lowest price from among the various prices stored for each material.

 lowest value determination based on rate of movement  lowest value determination based on range of coverage


Range of coverage = average stock : average consumption

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Lowest value determination


 Calculating the Movement Rate


Movement rate = Total quantity of receipts/issues : Material stock x 100 If the percentage of receipts/issues is smaller than Movement rate, the material is slow or non-moving

 Devaluation percentage  Devaluation indicator  Updating prices in the material master record

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Physical inventory
 Every company must carry out a physical inventory of its warehouse stocks at least once per fiscal year to balance its inventory  Stocks that can be inventoried

 unrestricted-use stock in the warehouse  quality inspection stock  Blocked stock

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Physical Inventory Process


 The process of physical inventory can be divided into three phases:


Physical inventory preparation

 Create a physical inventory document.  Block materials for posting.  Print and distribute the physical inventory document.


Physical inventory count

 counting stocks  entering the result of the count on the physical inventory
document printout

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Physical inventory


Physical inventory analysis

 entering the result of the count into the system  initiating a recount, if necessary  posting inventory differences
 Processing Steps

 Creating a physical inventory document  Entering the Physical Inventory Count  Post inventory differences

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Physical inventory
 posting the physical inventory count and inventory differences


If a physical inventory document exists, the following are combined in this step:
  The count is posted. Any inventory differences are posted.

 Posting inventory differences without reference to the physical inventory document


   A physical inventory document is created. The count is posted. Any inventory differences are posted.

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Physical inventory
 Physical Inventory Status


To monitor physical inventory processing, each physical inventory document records the inventory steps which have been carried out. This information can be found in an item or document header.

 physical inventory history for an item




In an inventory history you can determine which steps have been carried out for the item.

 document header


In the document header, the fields Count status, Adjustment status and Delete status provide information on whether some or all of the items have been counted, posted (inventory differences), or deleted.

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Inventory management information


 You can perform the following functions by selecting Environment from the Inventory Management menu.


List display

 The List display function offers reports for documents posted in


Inventory Management.

 Example: material documents for a material.




Stock display

 Example: Stock overview




Information

 The Information function allows you to display data (master data,


transaction/movement data) from other applications.

 Example: displaying a purchase order.


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Inventory management information




Balances display

 The Balances display function offers analysis of the stock


accounts and of the GR/IR clearing account.


Consignment

 The Consignment option permits analysis of the consignment


Batch where-used list Batch search strategy

stocks from vendors as well as the consignment stocks and the returnable packaging stocks at the customers site.

 

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Inventory management information


 Material analysis
  

Stock values Receipts and issues Inventory turnover

 Inventory turnover of the value of valuated stock is calculated as


follows:

 Value of total consumption / Value of average valuated stock




Range of coverage

 The range of coverage of the value of valuated stock is


calculated as follows:

 Value of valuated stock / value of average total usage / day

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