SAP MM Training (Materials Management & Sourcing)

Set the organisational skeleton for purchasing and understand where MM sits in the S/4HANA landscape.

• The procure-to-pay cycle end to end
• Plant, storage location and their assignment
• Purchasing organisation and purchasing group
• Company code to plant assignment logic
• Centralised versus decentralised purchasing
• MM integration touchpoints with FI, SD, PP and WM
• Fiori procurement apps versus classic transactions
• Key MM tables and where to look when something breaks

Get the master data right, because most production procurement issues trace back to a wrong view or a missing field.

• Material types and the views they control
• Material master views: basic, purchasing, accounting, MRP
• Material groups, base and order units of measure
• Valuation class and its link to account determination
• Business partner and the vendor role in S/4HANA
• Partner functions and partner determination
• Purchasing info records, source lists and quota arrangements
• Mass maintenance and material master governance

Run the core procurement documents and the source determination logic behind them.

• Purchase requisition creation and processing
• Document types, number ranges and field selection
• Source determination and automatic source assignment
• Purchase order structure: header, item, schedule line
• Account assignment categories (K, F, A, U)
• Item categories: standard, consignment, subcontracting, third party
• Contracts, scheduling agreements and outline agreements
• Purchase order output and message determination

Configure the approval workflow that every audit and every finance director asks about.

• Release procedure with and without classification
• Characteristics and class creation for release
• Release groups, codes, indicators and strategies
• Value-based and organisation-based approval logic
• Release simulation and testing
• Release workflow and notification
• Common release strategy failures and how to debug them
• Changing a document after release

Build the condition technique that decides what a purchase order actually costs.

• The condition technique explained step by step
• Condition tables, access sequences and condition types
• Calculation schema and schema determination
• Gross price, discounts, surcharges and freight
• Delivery costs and planned versus unplanned
• Taxes in procurement and tax codes
• Price determination analysis and troubleshooting
• Conditions in info records and contracts

Move stock correctly so valuation, availability and the warehouse all stay in agreement.

• Movement types and what each one really posts
• Goods receipt against a purchase order (MIGO)
• Goods issue, transfer posting and stock transfer
• Stock types: unrestricted, quality inspection, blocked
• Special stocks: consignment, subcontracting, project
• Reservations and physical inventory
• Stock transport orders between plants
• Material documents, accounting documents and reversals

Close the loop into finance and be able to explain every automatic posting a goods movement creates.

• Logistics invoice verification (MIRO)
• Three-way match: PO, GR and invoice
• Tolerance keys and blocked invoices
• Invoice release, credit memos and subsequent debits
• GR/IR clearing account and its reconciliation
• Automatic account determination and OBYC
• Valuation class, transaction key and account grouping
• Price differences, moving average versus standard price

Handle the scenarios that appear on almost every project and know where to find the numbers.

• Subcontracting end to end
• Consignment and pipeline procurement
• Third-party and drop shipment procurement
• Returns to vendor and returns purchase orders
• Vendor evaluation and supplier performance
• Standard MM reports and analyses
• Fiori analytical apps for procurement
• Archiving and document lifecycle basics