Materials Management with SAP S/4hana: Business Processes and Configuration (Hardcover, 2, Revised)

... Acknowledgments ... 31

... Preface ... 33

... Who Is This Book For? ... 33

... How This Book Is Organized ... 33

... Conclusion ... 38

Part I ... Materials Management Foundations ... 39

1 ... Materials Management Overview ... 41

1.1 ... What Is Materials Management? ... 41

1.2 ... Materials Management Integration ... 45

1.3 ... Summary ... 47

2 ... Organizational Structure ... 49

2.1 ... Mapping Business Functions of a Company in the SAP System ... 49

2.2 ... Client Structure in the SAP System ... 53

2.3 ... Company Codes ... 56

2.4 ... Plants ... 59

2.5 ... Storage Locations ... 64

2.6 ... Purchasing Organizations ... 66

2.7 ... Purchasing Groups ... 72

2.8 ... SAP Calendar ... 72

2.9 ... Summary ... 75

3 ... Configuring the Material Master ... 77

3.1 ... Material Master ... 77

3.2 ... Configuring a New Material Type ... 79

3.3 ... Defining a Number Range for a Material Type ... 85

3.4 ... Defining Field Selections ... 88

3.5 ... Configuring an Industry Sector ... 90

3.6 ... Defining Material Groups ... 90

3.7 ... Configuring a New Unit of Measure ... 91

3.8 ... Validating the Correctness of Configurable Objects ... 93

3.9 ... Summary ... 99

4 ... Material Master Data ... 101

4.1 ... Industry Sector ... 103

4.2 ... Material Type ... 103

4.3 ... Basic Data ... 108

4.4 ... Classification Data ... 122

4.5 ... Purchasing Data ... 124

4.6 ... Sales Organizational Data ... 133

4.7 ... Sales General Data ... 138

4.8 ... Material Requirements Planning Data ... 142

4.9 ... Advanced Planning Data ... 159

4.10 ... Extended Service Parts Planning ... 165

4.11 ... Forecasting Data ... 169

4.12 ... Work Scheduling Data ... 174

4.13 ... Production Resources/Tools Data ... 179

4.14 ... Plant Data/Storage Location ... 182

4.15 ... Warehouse Management Data ... 187

4.16 ... Quality Management Data ... 193

4.17 ... Accounting Data ... 197

4.18 ... Costing Data ... 202

4.19 ... Summary ... 206

5 ... Business Partners ... 207

5.1 ... Configuring Vendor Account Groups ... 209

5.2 ... Configuring a Business Partner ... 214

5.3 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 220

5.4 ... Additional Business Partner Configurations ... 223

5.5 ... Maintaining a Business Partner ... 227

5.6 ... Summary ... 257

Part II ... Procurement ... 259

6 ... Purchasing Overview ... 261

6.1 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 261

6.2 ... Requests for Quotation ... 262

6.3 ... Quotations ... 263

6.4 ... Outline Agreements ... 264

6.5 ... Purchase Orders ... 265

6.6 ... Source Lists and Source Determination ... 266

6.7 ... Conditions in Purchasing ... 271

6.8 ... Purchasing Information Records ... 273

6.9 ... Serial Numbers ... 275

6.10 ... Quota Arrangements ... 278

6.11 ... Summary ... 280

7 ... Purchasing Information Record ... 281

7.1 ... Purchasing General Data ... 282

7.2 ... Purchasing Organization Data ... 287

7.3 ... Summary ... 293

8 ... Purchase Requisitions ... 295

8.1 ... Configuring a New Purchase Requisition Document Type ... 295

8.2 ... Processing a Purchase Requisition ... 306

8.3 ... Indirectly Created Requisitions ... 309

8.4 ... Release Procedures ... 311

8.5 ... Flexible Workflow ... 330

8.6 ... Summary ... 338

9 ... Requests for Quotation ... 339

9.1 ... Creating a Request for Quotation ... 339

9.2 ... Changing a Request for Quotation ... 347

9.3 ... Releasing a Request for Quotation ... 348

9.4 ... Issuing a Request for Quotation to a Vendor ... 350

9.5 ... Maintaining Quotations ... 351

9.6 ... Comparing Quotations ... 353

9.7 ... Rejecting Quotations ... 356

9.8 ... Summary ... 358

10 ... Purchase Orders ... 359

10.1 ... Creating and Maintaining a Purchase Order ... 360

10.2 ... Blocking and Canceling a Purchase Order ... 366

10.3 ... Creating a Purchase Order with Reference to Purc