Materials Management with SAP S/4hana: Business Processes and Configuration (Hardcover)

... Acknowledgments ... 31 ... Preface ... 33 ... Who Is This Book For? ... 33 ... How This Book Is Organized ... 33 ... Conclusion ... 38 1 ... Materials Management Overview ... 39 1.1 ... What Is Materials Management? ... 39 1.2 ... Materials Management Integration ... 43 1.3 ... Summary ... 45 2 ... Organizational Structure ... 47 2.1 ... Mapping Business Functions of a Company in the SAP System ... 48 2.2 ... Client Structure in the SAP System ... 51 2.3 ... Company Code ... 55 2.4 ... Plants ... 57 2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 63 2.6 ... Purchasing Organization ... 66 2.7 ... Purchasing Groups ... 73 2.8 ... SAP Calendar ... 73 2.9 ... Summary ... 77 3 ... Configuring the Material Master ... 79 3.1 ... Material Master ... 79 3.2 ... Configuring a New Material Type ... 81 3.3 ... Defining a Number Range for a Material Type ... 86 3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 89 3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 91 3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 91 3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 92 3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 95 3.9 ... Summary ... 100 4 ... Material Master Data: Part 1 ... 101 4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 103 4.2 ... Material Type ... 103 4.3 ... Basic Data ... 109 4.4 ... Classification Data ... 122 4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 124 4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 134 4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 140 4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 143 4.9 ... Summary ... 162 5 ... Material Master Data: Part 2 ... 163 5.1 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 163 5.2 ... Forecasting Data ... 169 5.3 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 174 5.4 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 178 5.5 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 181 5.6 ... Warehouse Management Data ... 187 5.7 ... Quality Management Data ... 192 5.8 ... Accounting Data ... 196 5.9 ... Costing Data ... 201 5.10 ... Summary ... 205 6 ... Business Partners ... 207 6.1 ... Configuring Vendor Account Groups (Financial Accounting) ... 209 6.2 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 214 6.3 ... Customer/Vendor Integration ... 220 6.4 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 224 6.5 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 226 6.6 ... Summary ... 260 7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 261 7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 262 7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 267 7.3 ... Summary ... 273 8 ... Batch Management Data ... 275 8.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 275 8.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 277 8.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 282 8.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 287 8.5 ... Batch Determination ... 294 8.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 307 8.7 ... Batch Derivation ... 315 8.8 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 325 8.9 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 336 8.10 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 339 8.11 ... Summary ... 341 9 ... Purchasing Overview ... 343 9.1 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 343 9.2 ... Requests for Quotation ... 344 9.3 ... Quotations ... 345 9.4 ... Purchase Orders ... 346 9.5 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 346 9.6 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 352 9.7 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 354 9.8 ... Serial Numbers ... 357 9.9 ... Quota Arrangements ... 359 9.10 ... Summary ... 361 10 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 363 10.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 363 10.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 375 10.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 378 10.4 ... Release Procedures ... 380 10.5 ... Summary ... 399 11 ... Requests for Quotation ... 401 11.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 401 11.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 410 11.3 ... Releasing a