Configuration
Quick answer
Like all customizing, MM config is built in DEV, transported through QAS to PRD, and never changed directly in production.
Key takeaways
- A central part of MM config is automatic account determination (transaction OBYC), which decides the G/L accounts for goods…
- Enterprise structure: plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations, and their assignments.
- Material master settings: material types, number ranges, field selection.
- Watch out: Account determination (OBYC) errors breaking goods movements.
What MM configuration covers
- Enterprise structure: plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations, and their assignments.
- Material master settings: material types, number ranges, field selection.
- Purchasing: document types, release strategies, pricing schema.
- Inventory & valuation: movement types, valuation, account determination.
Account determination (critical)
A central part of MM config is automatic account determination (transaction OBYC), which decides the G/L accounts for goods movements and invoice postings. Getting it right is what makes MM–FI integration work; getting it wrong causes "account determination" errors at goods receipt.
Configuration discipline
Like all customizing, MM config is built in DEV, transported through QAS to PRD, and never changed directly in production. Enterprise-structure decisions (plants, purchasing orgs) are foundational and hard to change, so plan them with the end-to-end process in mind.
Common pitfalls
- Account determination (OBYC) errors breaking goods movements.
- Poor enterprise-structure design.
- Configuring directly in production.
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Check your understanding
Which statement is true of Configuration?
- A. HANA recovery restores the database from backups after a failure, corruption or for a system copy, using data…
- B. Getting it right is what makes MM-FI integration work; getting it wrong causes "account determination" errors…
- C. Billing in SD creates the customer invoice, posting revenue and the receivable to finance, the step that…
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B. Getting it right is what makes MM-FI integration work; getting it wrong causes "account determination" errors…
Covered in the “Account determination (critical)” section of this lesson.
Which of these also applies to Configuration?
- A. Enterprise-structure decisions (plants, purchasing orgs) are foundational and hard to change, so plan them…
- B. Menu-hunting instead of using codes.
- C. Wrong tool for the integration style.
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A. Enterprise-structure decisions (plants, purchasing orgs) are foundational and hard to change, so plan them…
Covered in the “Configuration discipline” section of this lesson.
Which part of the Learn SAP curriculum covers Configuration?
- A. SAP MM
- B. SAP security
- C. SAP installation
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A. SAP MM
This lesson sits in the SAP MM section of the Learn SAP course.