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  • SAP MM Module PDF: Material Management Tutorial
    by Madeline Carter
    $20.20 $9.99 for today 4.5 (103 ratings) Key Highlights of SAP MM Module PDF: 270+ pages in this SAP MM eBook PDF A cheap SAP MM handbook PDF specially designed for beginners Beautifully annotated screenshots in this SAP MM notes PDF Purchase SAP MM Book PDF Inside which you will…
  • Top 21 SAP MM Interview Questions & Answers (2021 Update)
    by Madeline Carter
    1) Explain what is SAP MM? SAP MM (Material Management) is a functional module in SAP that deals with procurement handling and material management. The MM module contains master data, system configuration and transactions to complete the procure to pay process. 2) What are the essential components in SAP MM?…
  • Special Stock & Special Procurement in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    In some cases, logistic processes require special procurement types to be used: Consignment Subcontracting Stock Transfer Using Stock Transport Order Third-Party Processing Returnable Transport Packaging Pipeline Handling For the purposes of the special procurement types, there are special stock types. Item categories you can use in purchasing documents. We will…
  • SAP Physical Inventory Tutorial: MI01, MI02, MI04, MI07
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Physical Inventory? Physical inventory is a process of determining that the inventory quantities are exact, or if there are differences in quantity mentioned physically present and that mentioned in the SAP system. Basically, after you are finished with physical inventory, your system and physical stock levels must be…
  • SAP SD Module PDF: Sales & Distribution (FREE Download)
    by Madeline Carter
    $20.20 $9.99 for today 4.6 (119 ratings) Key Highlights of SAP SD PDF 167+ pages eBook Designed for beginners Beautifully annotated screenshots You will get lifetime download access of this SAP SD PDF SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) is an important module of SAP ERP consisting of business processes required…
  • Top 20 SAP SD Interview Questions & Answers (2021 Update)
    by Madeline Carter
    1) What is SAP SD? What are the primary functions of Sales and Distribution? SAP SD handles all the processes of order to delivery. It executes the business processes used in selling, shipping and billing of product and services. Inquiries & Quotes Sales Orders Sales Return Consignment Contract & Scheduling…
  • Transfer Posting of Goods in SAP MB1B
    by Madeline Carter
    Transferring a quantity from one storage location to another can be accomplished by either using MIGO transaction or MB1B. I will demonstrate the transfer posting process using MB1B as you have already seen MIGO in action. Step 1) Execute the transaction MB1B. Enter movement type (311), source Plant and Storage…
  • How to Post Goods Issue in SAP MM VL02N, VL09
    by Madeline Carter
    Another important process in inventory management is goods issue posting. Reservations are considered a specific process on their own, but essentially reservation use a goods issue logic. When we created a material document for reservations, we have issued goods from warehouse to the cost center, production order etc. Now, we…
  • SAP Credit Management Tutorial: OVA8
    by Madeline Carter
    Credit Management is a process in which Company sells a product / service to customers on credit basis. The company collects payments from customer at a later time , after sale of product. The amount of credit fixed by a company for a customer is called credit limit. The customer…
  • How to create Accounting Key in SAP: OV34
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Accounting Key? The Accounting key enables the system to post amounts to certain types of revenue account. For example, the system can post freight charges (generated by the freight pricing condition) to the relevant freight revenue account. A condition type writes its value to a key established in…
  • Reservation of Inventory in SAP MB21, MB1A, MBST, MB22
    by Madeline Carter
    Reservations are system documents that show a requirement for a certain amount of good for production, cost center and any other need. Reservations are important in planning/MRP/ATP as the system reserves needed quantities before they are posted. If there weren’t reservations in the system, we might encounter a problem that…
  • Condition Exclusion Group in SAP using Tcode OV31
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Condition Exclusion Group? In any normal situation there could be more than one condition type in a pricing procedure offering a discount to a customer. Should the discounts be automatically determined, there is the risk that the customer will receive all the relevant discounts and thus purchase the…
  • How to Reverse (Cancel) Goods Receipt MMBE in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    After you have posted the goods receipt in MIGO, you can check stock levels in MMBE transaction code. Execute the transaction. For the requested material you will be shown stock levels for plants, storage locations and stock types (unrestricted, quality, blocked). In the Quality inspection column, you can see that…
  • How to Create Goods Receipt in SAP: MIGO, MB1C, MB03
    by Madeline Carter
    To create goods receipt, you can use MIGO or MB1C transaction. Mostly people use MIGO as it’s designed to have all the options for all of the movement scenarios. Step 1) Execute the MIGO transaction. Choose A1 – Goods receipt process. Choose R01 – Purchase order. Enter your purchase order…
  • SAP MM: Inventory Management and Movement Types in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Inventory Management in SAP MM Inventory Management is used to manage the inventory for the goods. It is based on several key processes. Definition of movement types, reservations, goods issue and goods receipt. We have already done basic goods receipt process in the purchase order topic, referencing it to a…
  • How to create Text Type in SAP: VOTXN
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Text Type? Text is a small piece of formatted or unformatted text that is used to show or store information in Master data and Transaction data. For example, a temperature sensitive material ( a medicine which needs low temperature storage area) needs to be kept under freezing temperature….
  • SAP SD Tax Determination Procedure Tutorial: VK12, OX10, OVK4, OVK1
    by Madeline Carter
    SAP uses Condition Method technique to calculate taxes (except Withholding Tax) in the system. Tax Calculation Procedures (defined in the system) together with the Tax Codes are used in calculating the amount of tax. The Tax Code is the first step in the tax calculation procedure. The Tax code describes…
  • How to Define Schema Group & Determination in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    In this tutorial, we will learn How to Define Schema Group How to Define Schema Determination How to Define Schema Group We can create schema groups for purchase organization or vendor. Schema groups are then assigned to purchase organizations in customizing and to vendors in vendor master record. They are…
  • Determine Pricing by Item Category in SAP: OVKO
    by Madeline Carter
    Not all items are relevant for pricing. The standard requirement in pricing procedure checks if the item is relevant for pricing . If this switch in the item category is set to blank, then the line items will not be relevant for pricing. An item category controls the overall behavior…
  • How to Define Calculation Schema in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    As you saw in the previous topic, a condition type is assigned a calculation schema. It is defined in customizing. Step 1) In IMG, Choose Define Calculation Schema option. Step 2) You can see that the initial screen contains a dialog structure with Schemas as the top level.Additionally, you can…
  • How to Define Condition Types in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Defining of condition types can be done in few simple steps. Step 1) Define condition types In the IMG, click on the define condition types option. Step 2) Choose Define Condition In next step, Choose Define Condition Type option. Step 3) Find all of the existing entries You can find…
  • Define & Assign Blocking Reason in SAP (OVV4, S_ALR_87007670)
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Blocking Reason? Blocking reason is using to block bill creation for a customer. Blocking reason can be defined as per business requirements. After the creation of blocking reason, it has assigned to corresponding document types and used in document processing. Customer can also be blocked in Customer Master….
  • How to Define Access Sequence & Condition Table in SAP V/05, M/03
    by Madeline Carter
    Define Access Sequence To define and maintain access sequences, you need to follow a few simple steps. Step 1) Go to SPRO > Materials management > Purchasing> Conditions> Define price determination process> Define access sequences. As shown below , you will find a dialog structure of Access sequences, Accesses and…
  • SAP Item Category Determination: VOV7, VOV4
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Item Category? An item category defines how a line item behaves in sales transaction. SAP Uses Item category to process a material differently in each sales document type. e.g. AFX – It is inquiry Item category ,it is not relevant for billing. AGX – It is quotation Item…
  • Overview Of Pricing Procedure in SAP MM & SAP SD
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Pricing Procedure? Pricing procedure in MM module is a way to determine prices in purchasing documents. It give us functionality to assign different calculation types for different needs. Defining a pricing procedure can be done by creating an access sequence, and assigning it to condition types. Access sequence…
  • How to Create Invoice Correction Request in SAP SD
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Invoice Correction? Invoice Correction is a process to correct quantity or prices in the invoices for one or more line items. The system calculates the differences between original amount and corrected amount. Invoice correction request is automatically blocked by the system,until it has been checked. Once its approved,we…
  • CS01: How to Create Bill of Material (BoM) in SAP SD
    by Madeline Carter
    A bill of material (BOM) describes the different components that together create a product. For example- A computer is a product. It is a combination of CPU, Keyboard, Monitor, Mouse etc. The bill of material contains the item number of each component, quantity required in the manufacture of a product…
  • Release Strategy, Procedure for Purchase Order in SAP: CT04, ME28, CL02
    by Madeline Carter
    Releasing a purchasing document means approving it. For this, our MM consultant can create release procedures to be used. There is a vast number of options that can be used for controlling the release of the documents. Important information to know is that a purchasing document cannot be changed after…
  • Substitution Reasons OVRQ in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Substituting Reason is a process that controls, how the system performs product selection. Substitution reason is needed when material substitution action taken place. It defines below things – Define strategy for alternate material that should be offered. Provide a message for information to user before substitute the material. Step 1)…
  • Outline Agreement in SAP: Contract & Scheduling Agreement ME31
    by Madeline Carter

    What is Outline Agreement?

    Outline agreement is a long-term purchase agreement between vendor and customer. Outline agreement are two types:

    1. Contract
    2. Scheduling Agreement

    Contract The contract is draft agreement, and they do not include delivery dates for the material. Contract is two types :

    1. Quantity Contract: This contract considered to fulfilled when the company supplied an agreed total quantity of materials against the contract.
    2. Value Contract: This contract considered to fulfilled when the company supplied agreed total value of material against the contract.
  • Service Purchase Order in SAP: ME23N
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Service Purchase Order? Service purchase orders are entered for services that are procured internally or externally. These purchase orders are different from standard ones as they don’t require a goods receipt since they have no stock. Other than that, there are a few small differences in PO creation….
  • Output Determination in SAP SD using Tcode V/30
    by Madeline Carter
    Output determination is the process to determine the “media” such as printouts, telexes, faxes, e-mails, or EDI that are sent from one business to any of its business partners. The output can be sent to the business partners (Customer / Vendor) in the format which is defined in documents such…
  • MRBR: Release Blocked Invoices in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    An invoice request is blocked for payment until its manually released. You can release the invoice by using t-code MRBR. Step 1) Execute t-code MRBR. On the initial screen enter the company code and invoice number. Check the release method (release manually if you want to process it in the…
  • All About Consignment Process in SAP SD
    by Madeline Carter
    Consignment Process is where product are stored at the customer location but the owner of this product is still company. Customer stores the consignment stock at their own a warehouse. Customer can consume product from warehouse at any time and customer billed for product for actually quantity consumes. In Consignment…
  • MIRO: How to Perform Invoice Verification in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Invoice verification is done via MIRO transaction. Step 1) Enter transaction code MIRO. Choose invoice as a transaction type. Enter the invoice date. Enter the purchase order number. Hit ENTER. Step 2) On Payment tab choose R – invoice verification. You can always check if the document has any problems….
  • Create Return Order, Free of Charge & Subsequent Delivery: SAP VL01N
    by Madeline Carter
    What is a Return? Return is where a customer is not satisfied with the product or the deliverable, & businesses need to create a return the good, based on customer return request. What is Free of Charge Delivery ? Free of Charge Delivery is where the customer is not charged…
  • Create Picking, Packing & PGI (Post Goods Issue): SAP LT03, VL02N
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Picking? It is necessary to prepare correct quantity and quality of goods as specified in sales order for shipping on schedule as required by the customer. Material picking is done by warehouse management(WM). WM picking is done via transfer order. The transfer order is the basis for the…
  • How to Post Goods Receipt: SAP MIGO
    by Madeline Carter
    In this tutorial, we will learn Post Goods Receipt Step 1) You can post the goods receipt for a purchase order using transaction code MIGO. Let’s say we want to do a goods receipt for our purchase order 4500018386. Choose A01 – Goods Receipt. Choose R01 – Purchase Order. Enter…
  • How to Shipping Point Determine in SAP SD
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Shipping Point? A Shipping Point is an independent organizational entity where the issuance and delivery processing of goods take place. It helps to process and monitor the deliveries and goods while it is issued. A Shipping point is a top level unit for shipping organization that can be…
  • ME22N: How to Change a Purchase Order in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    In this tutorial, we will learn How to Change a Purchase Order Step 1) For changing an existing purchase order you can use transaction code ME22N (or ME22 – the old version). Immediately after executing transaction code, system will take you to the most recent purchase order you have created,…
  • Material Listing & Exclusion: SAP VB01
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Exclusion List? Material exclusion / listing is a provision to restrict a customer’s buying choices. For example, if certain materials are defined in “Exclusion List” of a specific customer, then, the customer can not buy material from “Exclusion List”. Example – A company produce 10 materials and company…
  • How to Create Purchase Order with Reference ME58 | ME21N in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Purchase order with reference Purchase orders can be created with reference to a purchase requisition, RFQ, quotation, another purchase order, contract, sales order etc. To reference a PO to a previous document you can use the appropriate function. You can create a PO referencing a previous document in 2 ways…
  • How to Create Item Proposal VA51 in SAP
    by Madeline Carter

    What is Item Proposal?

    Item proposal is the list of materials and order quantities that can be copied into the sales order .Item proposal is same as product proposal and SAP uses the two terms interchangeably.“MS” is a standard document type for Product Proposal.A customized document type can be created for item proposal by T-code –VOV8.

    VA51 is T-code for creating Item Proposal.This T-code gives a number upon saving,which is linked to the customer data in sales view.

  • How to Create a Purchase Order ME21N in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Purchase orders are used for a number of processes in procurement. They can be used for internal procurement (from one plant to another), external procurement of goods (direct consumption or stock) and services. It can also be used for subcontracting, third-party and consignment processes. Purchase order processing is shown in…
  • Schedule Line Category Determination Tutorial: SAP VOV6
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Schedule Line Category? SAP System only copies those items of sales document ,which have schedule line .Schedule lines contain all the delivery related information such as: delivery dates and quantities as well as information about the requirements transfer and inventory management. Schedule line category has two alphanumeric key….
  • How to Create a Source List Determination: SAP ME05
    by Madeline Carter
    You can create a sourcelist in ME05 transaction. A source list is a list of possible sources for a material. If a source list requirement exists for the material, you must create a source list to proceed with the ordering. Execute t-code ME05. Enter material, or material list/range. Enter plant….
  • Text Determination for Sales Document: SAP VOTXN
    by Madeline Carter
    Text can be used to exchange the information via documents with a partner and end users. Text can be created for objects like customer master, sales document header and item, billing document header and item as well as condition records. Text can be customer text, sales text, item note, packing…
  • How to Select or Reject a Quotation: SAP ME47
    by Madeline Carter
    The following tutorial will take you through the steps to Maintain Quotation in SAP MM Step 1) Select the quotation that’s favourable (you want to process it further as it’s having the best conditions). Choose the Edit Quotation button on the toolbar. Step 2) Now you are in the ME47…
  • SAP Sales Document Tutorial: VA01, VA02, VA03
    by Madeline Carter
    Sales Order is a contract between a customer and sales organization for supplying goods or service to customer within a agreed time period. Data on the sales order screen is derived from Customer Master Table and Material Master Table for a particular sales area.The sales area that accepts the inquiry…
  • How to Compare Price for Different Quotation: SAP ME49
    by Madeline Carter
    After your quotations are entered, you can compare them to select the best available offer at this moment. We can compare the quotations in transaction code ME49. We can select which quotations will be compared by using the collective number we addressed before to be an important field that is…
  • SAP PP Module PDF: Download Production Planning PDF Now
    by Madeline Carter
    $20.20 $9.99 for today 4.4 (105 ratings) Key Highlights of SAP PP Module PDF: 147+ pages in this SAP PP Manual PDF eBook Designed for beginners This SAP PP book is design with beautifully annotated screenshots You will get lifetime download access of this SAP Production Planning PDF SAP PP…
  • How To Create Credit Memo in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Credit Memo? It’s a sales document used in complaint processing to request credit to customer.Below are some situation for issue credit memo – The Price calculated for customer is not correct,e.g. discount is not included in sales document for customer. Quantity is not correct in sales document. Step…
  • ME47: How to Create Quotation in SAP MM
    by Madeline Carter
    Using transaction code ME47, we can create a quotation based on a request for quotation. Step 1) Transaction code for quotation maintenance – ME47. RFQ: request for quotation that we are using as a reference document. Press ENTER. Step 2) RFQ quantity Delivery date Net price per unit of measure…
  • How To Create Debit Memo in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Background: How To Create Debit Memo in SAP Debit Memo Request is a sales document used in sales document processing to request a debit memo for a customer. Example scenario, a debit memo would be created when price calculated is low due to wrong rates selected. A debit memo can…
  • Top 26 SAP PP Interview Questions & Answers (2021 Update)
    by Madeline Carter
    1) Explain what is SAP PP? SAP PP process is related to production planning of a company and it encompasses all activities like MRP (Material Requirement Planning), BOM (Bills Of Material), Routing, Capacity planning, etc. but mainly it contains two segments Material Planning: Material requirements planning, long term planning, Execution…
  • ME41: How to Create RFQ (Request for Quotation) in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Quotations Quotations are requests for vendors to provide us information about their best prices, terms and conditions, schedule of deliveries and other information in order to select the best source for our procurement needs. Below you can see the process flow for quotations in purchasing in SAP MM module. Quotation…
  • How to Convert Purchase Requistion to Purchase Order in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Upon release purchase requisitions can be converted into purchase orders. This can be accomplished in transaction code ME21N .Process for converting a PR into PO is straight forward, and the steps for performing it are as follows: Step 1) Execute transaction code ME21N. Choose the appropriate purchase order type: in…
  • SAP PP Reports Tutorial: COOIS, MB52, CS15, CS12
    by Madeline Carter
    There are many reports available in SAP pertaining to Master Data, Production Orders and Goods Movement against orders. It helps users to view the overall situation of the plant with ease Through PP reports, you can view Production and Consumption data about the material for the specific time period. Current…
  • How To Create Sales Order: SAP VA01
    by Madeline Carter
    Background: A ‘Sales Order’ is a contract between a Customer and a Sales organization for supply of specified goods and/services over a specified time period. All relevant information from Customer master record and Material master record is copied to the sales order. The sales order may be created with reference…
  • How to Create Quotation: SAP VA21
    by Madeline Carter
    Quotation: It’s a sales document ,which informs the customer, that company will deliver a specific quantity of product at a specific time and at a specific price. Quotation can be created after receipt of inquiry from customer or without inquiry.When quotation is created post receipt of inquiry from customer ,…
  • Production Order in SAP: CO01, MD16, CO02, CO15
    by Madeline Carter
    A production order defines which material is to be processed, at which location, and at what time and how much quantity is required. It also defines which components and sequence of operations are to be used and how the order costs are to be settled. Planned orders are results of…
  • How to Create a Purchase Requisition in SAP: ME51N
    by Madeline Carter
    Purchase requisition creation can be done in t-code ME51N (or the older version ME51 – not recommended) and is a straight forward process. Execute ME51N transaction. Purchase requisition document type: NB – standard. Source determination: ON or OFF. Header note. Material: material number. Quantity and UoM. Storage location: in which…
  • How to Change a Purchase Info Record: ME12 in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    We said that the transaction used to create info record is code ME11. When we need to change the info record we can use code ME12 t-code, and for display only we should use code ME13, just as SAP standards are. Step 1) Transaction code to change the info record….
  • How to Create Inquiry in SAP: VA11
    by Madeline Carter
    Background: An inquiry document is an internal document .It records the information about the request from prospective customer to be circulated in the company and is not a legal document. The information captured is mainly the materials and the quantity.More details could be added to the document which is optional….
  • Goods Movement against Production Order in SAP PP: MIGO
    by Madeline Carter
    There are two types of goods movement against production order which impacts the inventory of the material. These movements are done through movement types in SAP. Goods Receipt (GR) against Order is executed with movement type 101 which is done when we produce the material. After goods receipt, the system…
  • Pre-Sales Activities: Process | Support | Documents
    by Madeline Carter
    Normally all Sales activities (leaving out the activities undertaken by Marketing function) can be broadly categorized into pre sales and post sales activities. What is Pre-Sales? Pre sales meaning before the sales. In other words, it includes all the activities or processes that are performed in order to convert a…
  • ME11: How to Create a Purchase Info Record in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Purchase Info Record Purchase info records are information about terms for purchasing a specific material from a vendor. They are maintained at vendor/material combination and can contain data for pricing and conditions, overdelivering and underdelivering limits, planned delivery date, availability period. Procurement types in info record Standard A standard info…
  • SAP PP Capacity Planning: CM01, CM21
    by Madeline Carter
    The main function of capacity planning is to check the load at Work Center and do the capacity leveling i.e. balance the load at Work Center. It helps to calculate the production capacity based on the requirement of the product against the available capacity of the work center. MRP works…
  • Introduction to Purchasing & Purchase Requisition in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Purchasing is a component of SAP MM module and its process can be roughly depicted in below diagram. MRP (material resource planning) creates procurement proposal and later gets converted into Purchase Requisition. Next step is assigning source to Purchase Requisition, and release of Purchase Requisition. The PR gets converted to…
  • SAP SD: Create Material Master Data
    by Madeline Carter
    Purpose: This procedure is used to manually create material master for different view. Here sales view is used – Step 1) In T-Code MM01 “Create Material” Enter industry sector and material type. Click on Select View(s) Button. A pop window appears. In pop window, select view for which material to…
  • Long Term Planning (LTP) in SAP PP: MS31, MS04, MD61
    by Madeline Carter
    SAP PP Long Term Planning (LTP) Long Term Planning (LTP) in SAP PP is used to simulate the future demand and supply situation in all BOM levels. The main function is to check the capacity situation, material requirement and vendor ability to provide the material in desired time. This is…
  • MMBE: How to get SAP Stock Overview
    by Madeline Carter
    We can get stock overview of a particular material across various organization levels by T-Code – MMBE. Step 1) Enter T-Code in Command bar MMBE. Enter Material No . Select display level for which we want to see stock overview. Click on execute Button. Step 2) Output will be displayed…
  • SAP MRP (Material Requirement Planning) Tutorial: MD01, MD02, MD04
    by Madeline Carter
    What is SAP MRP? The SAP MRP(Material Requirement Planning) is used to procure or produce the required material quantities on time for in-house purpose or for fulfilling customer demands. In manufacturing, the function of MRP is to guarantee material availability on time. The main objective is to plan the supply…
  • Material Master Views in SAP: The Ultimate Guide
    by Madeline Carter
    In this tutorial, we will cover all the MM views with the implication on vital processes in standard SAP system. You will see how each of the views is created, its obligatory data, optional fields, and how its creation reflects the system. This tutorial is 7000 words+. For easy reference…
  • SAP Demand Management Tutorial: MD61, MD62, MD04, MD74, MD75
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Planned Independent Requirement(PIR)? Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) are used to perform Demand Management functions. A Planned Independent Requirement contains one planned quantity and one date for a material, or one planned quantity split over time according to dates. PIR version “00” has an active indicator, which specifies that…
  • Quality Notification in SAP QM: QM02
    by Madeline Carter
    SAP QM Quality Notification contains functions for capturing and processing different types of problems or defects which are identified during inspection (for example, defects resulting from poor-quality goods). SAP QM Quality notifications are utilized to analyze the recorded defects and perform root cause analysis of these problems. In particular, the…
  • How to Create Customer Material Info Record VD51 in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Background: Sometimes, customer refers to a material with a layman name(rather than technical name) in purchase order .Hence there is a need to map customer material name with our material code, this process is called Customer Material Info Record. T-Code is – VD51 (Create) / VD52 (Change) / VD53 (Display)…
  • MM17: Mass Maintenance of Material Master in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    In order to create multiple materials at once, you should have access to a function like eCatt tool LSMW(Legacy System Migration Workbench) BDC (Batch Data Communication) recordings BAPI (Business Application Programing Interface) You can also use mass maintenance transaction MM17 to create views in some cases. But you must keep…
  • MB1C: How to Create Material Stock in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    Background Their are more then one Tcode for create Material Stock. MB1C ( Other Goods Receipts) for opening balance creation of material. MIGO (used for Issue / Transfer / Receipt of material). We use here MB1C Tcode to Create Material Stock as opening balance. Step-1 Enter Tcode MB1C in command…
  • SAP QM Final Inspection | Inspection Type 04
    by Madeline Carter
    Final Inspection in SAP QM Inspection against Production GR- this inspection will be based on production confirmation against a production order. The inspection lot (with inspection type 04) will be created at the time of Good receipt against production order. The SAP system will generate a unique inspection lot which…
  • How to Copy Material Master in SAP: MM01
    by Madeline Carter
    In this tutorial we will go throught the process of copying an existing material master data into new material Step 1) In transaction MM01 Enter material number that you want to create. Enter our existing material from which we want to copy the data. Click on Select Views button. Step…
  • How to Create Production version in SAP PP C223
    by Madeline Carter
    The production version is the link between a product BOM (Bill of Material) and the process Routing. It determines which alternative BOM is used together with which routing to produce a material or plan a material. There may be different production versions based on the lot sizes and validity dates….
  • How to Change Material Master Data (MM02, MM03) in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    It may be needed to change certain option in our material master (due to the organizational changes, or changes in processes). We cannot use MM01 as that is the transaction code used only for creating views that are not maintained for certain material. In this case, we need to use…
  • In-Process Inspection SAP QM: CO01 & QA32
    by Madeline Carter
    In-process inspection (time-based) is used for recording the result for an in-process quality check for the intermediate and finished product during the production process. For example, inspection in every two hours, inspection per shift, etc. We will be discussing this moving forward. The “Inprocess inspection” lot will have a reference/…
  • How to Create Partner Function & Partner Determination: SAP VOPAN
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Partner Function? Partner function is two-character identification key that describes the people and organization with whom you do the business, and who are therefore involved in transaction. Here is some standard Partner Function for customer- Sold-to party Ship-to party Bill-to party Payer What is Partner Determination? The Partner…
  • How to Create/Change/Display Routing in SAP PP
    by Madeline Carter
    A routing is a description of which operations or list of activities has to be carried out during the production and planning process. It also tells what order or sequence the activities/operations needs to be carried out at work centers or machines. There may be several alternative routings for a…
  • How to Create Material Master Data MM01 in SAP
    by Madeline Carter
    When we want to use a new material in SAP, we have to define it’s characteristics, in order to control it’s behaviour in all of the transactions. Every material is created in the either of these two ways: By calling transaction MM01 (mostly used in a productive environment) Mass creation…
  • SAP QM Incoming Raw Material Inspection Procedure: QA32
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Incoming Raw Material Inspection in SAP? Incoming inspection is generally called as Raw Material Inspection received against purchase orders in SAP. This inspection will be activated in the raw material by maintaining SAP QM data in Material Master. To identify the triggering of inspection based on the business…
  • Work Center in SAP PP: Create, Change, Display
    by Madeline Carter
    Work center is an organization unit where manufacturing activities are performed. In other words, Work Centers are the master data which represent real machines, Production Lines, Assembly Work Center, etc. Manufacturing activity or Operations are carried out at Work Center. Work Centers are used in task list (routing) operations and…
  • SAP Customer Number Range | Assign to Account Group XDN1
    by Madeline Carter
    In this tutorial, we will learn How to Create Number Range & Assign Number Range to Customer Accounts groups How to Create Customer Number Range TCode in SAP Step 1) Enter T-Code. Enter T-Code XDN1 in command bar and press enter. Step 2) Create number ranges. We now create Customer…
  • Bill of Material (BoM) in SAP PP: Create, Change, Display
    by Madeline Carter
    What is Bill of Material (BOM) and its role? A bill of material is a complete, formally structured list of the components that make up a product or assembly. The list comprises of the material number of each component, together with the quantity and unit of measure. BOM can be…
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