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Configuring the MM Structures
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Review of the Procurement Process
GoodsReceipt
PayInvoice
PurchaseRequisition
PurchaseOrder
InvoiceReceipt
InternalDemand V
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Materials Management (Functions) Purchasing activities Goods receipt Storing materials Issuing materials
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Materials Management (Integration) MM is integrated with FI
Materials are described in MM Vendors are described in both MM and FI
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Materials Management (Valuation) SAP can value materials differently
(called the valuation level At the company-code level, the same
material has the same value across all plants
At the plant-level, each plant maintains prices separately
Note that the valuation level-is set once for the entire client and cannot be changed
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Materials Management (Valuation)
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Organizational Units A company code has one or more
plants A plant has one or more storage
locations A purchasing organization is
responsible for purchasing goods for one or many plants
A purchasing group is a group of buyers responsible for purchasing specific kinds of materials
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Organizational Unit (Plant) A plant is typically a physical place but does
not have to be Typically a manufacturing facility, distribution
center or other physical place where the company does business
A plant applies to one and exactly one company code
A plant is used to determine the shipping point for goods
A plant can have several shipping points (loading docks)
A shipping point can be assigned to several plants
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Organizational Unit (Plant) Plants are created (defined) from the
IMG Plants have a factory calendar
Once created, plants must be (assigned) to a company code Back to definement and assignment A plant belongs to exactly one company
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Organizational Unit (Plant Factory Calendar) SAP defines most country calendars 3 parts
The factory calendar Holiday calendar
Derived from public holidays Transaction
code SCAL
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Organizational Unit (Plant) Remember a business area is a FI
organizational unit used to categorize areas operations A single business area can be assigned to a
plant A plant can be responsible for several sales
organizations and distribution channels MRP is performed at the plant organizational
level A Plant has its own material master records
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Organizational Unit (Storage Location) A storage location identifies where a
material is stored It might be as simple as raw materials /
work in progress / finished goods Or as complex as a unique bin at an
Amazon.com Requires enabling the warehouse
management subsystem Storage locations can be physical or
logical
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Organizational Unit (Storage Location) Storage locations are created using the
IMG A storage location applies to exactly one
plant
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Organizational Unit (Purchasing Organization) Responsible for the procurement of
materials and/or services A purchasing organization is assigned to
one or more plants A purchasing organization has
Its own vendor master data Its own pricing conditions Its own external purchasing documents
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Organizational Unit (Purchasing Organization) Purchasing organizations can be
configured differently Centralized Distributed Hybrid
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Organizational Unit (Purchasing Organization) A purchasing organization is assigned to
one or many plants Centralized
Responsible for many plants Assigned to multiple plants possibly
having different company codes Decentralized (Company-specific)
Purchasing organization assigned directly to a company code
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Organizational Unit (Purchasing Organization) Plant-specific purchasing
A purchasing organization is responsible for one and only one plant
Again, purchasing organizations are created from the IMG
They are then assigned