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MODULE MM

Materials Management

MM (Materials Management) manages what the company buys, stores and consumes. Every material movement creates a material document and, if it has a value, an accounting document: MM is the bridge between logistics and finance.

Audience
Buyers, warehouse staff, accounts payable clerks, key users, MM consultants, people retraining into SAP.
Prerequisites
None for level 1; basic debit/credit knowledge for levels 2 and 3.
Duration
5 days (1 + 2.5 + 1.5)
35 h · day-by-day schedule
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Customizing, valuation and expertise

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Chapters in this level

  1. Customize the organizational structure · SPRO › Enterprise Structure: define, then assign. The order matters.
  2. Material types, field selection and suppliers · What a material type controls, and how to simplify the master record for users.
  3. Purchasing customizing · Document types, release, versions, conditions: the levers that drive how purchase orders behave.
  4. The release strategy, from A to Z · Who must approve this purchase order, and in what order?
  5. Automatic purchase orders with ME59N · Converting purchase requisitions into purchase orders overnight, without a buyer.
  6. Valuation: standard price, moving average price, Material Ledger · Two ways to value stock, with very different consequences for variances.
  7. Automatic account determination · Find the account for any movement, without guessing.
  8. Quota arrangements and advanced source determination · Split a requirement between several suppliers, automatically and fairly.
  9. Tables, reports and troubleshooting · The everyday life of a support consultant: one message, one cause, one solution.
Module complete
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