Materials Management with SAP S/4HANA: Business Processes and Configuration (Third Edition) (SAP PRESS)

Manage your materials with SAP S/4HANA! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage MM in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then follow step-by-step instructions for your essential processes, from purchasing and MRP runs to goods issue and receipt. Discover how to get more out of SAP S/4HANA by using batch management, demand-driven MRP, SAP Fiori reports, and other built-in tools.

• Configure your materials management processes in SAP S/4HANA
• Maintain critical material and business partner records
• Master core functionality: procurement, MRP, inventory management, and more

Procurement and Planning
Master your procurement processes, from setting up the purchasing information records and special procurement types to creating requests for quotations and purchase orders. Learn to run MRP and forecasting in SAP S/4HANA.

Inventory Management
Ensure your system is properly configured to handle goods issue, goods receipt, and other inventory movements. Manage the physical inventory processes, invoice verification, valuation, and more.

Advanced Processes
Core processes not enough? Configure batch management, set up demand-driven replenishment, and use the Document Management System. Discover all-new SAP Fiori apps to report on and monitor your system.

• Material master data
• Business partners
• Purchasing
• Batch management
• Material requirements planning (MRP)
• Demand-driven MRP
• Inventory management
• Goods issue and receipt (GI/GR)
• Material Ledger
• Invoice verification
• Document management
• Reporting

Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has more than 20 years of professional experience, 16 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP implementation project lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify the root causes of business issues and address those issues with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Ariba, and SAP Customer Experience.

Martin Murray was a respected logistics consultant and worked with IBM for more than 15 years. He joined the computer industry upon his graduation from Middlesex University in 1986. In 1991, he began working with SAP R/2 in the materials management area for a London-based multinational beverage company, and in 1994 he moved to the United States to work as an SAP R/3 consultant.