Configuring the MM Structures

Slide 2 Review of the Procurement Process Goods Receipt Pay Invoice Purchase Requisition Purchase Order Invoice Receipt Internal Demand Vendor

Slide 3 Materials Management (Functions) Purchasing activities Goods receipt Storing materials Issuing materials

Slide 4 Materials Management (Integration) MM is integrated with FI Materials are described in MM Vendors are described in both MM and FI

Slide 5 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

Slide 6 Materials Management (Valuation)

Slide 7 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

Slide 8 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

Slide 9 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

Slide 10 Organizational Unit (Plant Factory Calendar) SAP defines most country calendars 3 parts The factory calendar Holiday calendar Derived from public holidays Transaction code SCAL

Slide 11 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

Slide 12 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

Slide 13 Organizational Unit (Storage Location) Storage locations are created using the IMG A storage location applies to exactly one plant

Slide 14 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

Slide 15 Organizational Unit (Purchasing Organization) Purchasing organizations can be configured differently Centralized Distributed Hybrid

Slide 16 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

Slide 17 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