
Welcome to the CMIR course. This introduction will explain the need for customer material information records and what the course will provide
This lecture will go over the course contents, including the sections and what a student will learn in each section. This is helpful as some students may want to focus in on certain topics, especially after completing the course and reviewing the topics
This section will provide students with the business understanding needed to use CMIRs in the business process
Explore the master data setup for CMIRs by locating CMIRs in the system, using display functions, and learning step-by-step creation, changes, and their impacts, plus related master data functions.
Explore the CMIR selection screen to locate customer material info records by customer, sales area, distribution channel, and material, using lookups, search helps, and variants.
Create a new customer material info record by entering the customer, sales area, and distribution channel, assign material numbers and customer material numbers, and save.
Change existing customer material info records using change mode or create mode, then review change history to see who changed what and when.
Explore how delivery plant determination drives shipping and inventory checks in sales orders. Compare CMIR, customer master, and material master levels for the most specific to least specific routing.
Learn how CMIRs automate plant determination in SAP by using material master, customer master, and customer material info records, with order-level overrides to ensure correct plant per sales area.
Explore how a customer material info record controls item category determination on sales orders by using item usage to automatically drive categories, reducing errors and manual work.
Configure rounding profiles in the customer material info record to auto round quantities to predefined multiples. Apply static or dynamic rounding for a specific customer-material pair, with overrides as needed.
Explore the cmir data model by examining the customer material information records, the knmti table, and the data dictionary to understand storage, relationships, and reporting for customization.
Engage in detailed CMIR data analysis by linking customer, material, and sales area records; explore ad hoc reporting and prototyping using tables and Excel for broader insights.
Explore how customer material info records are used in SAP CMIR programs, including locks, structures, views, function modules, and program-level details.
Explore CMIRs (customer material info records) by using function modules and BAPIs to fetch customer material info records, pass input parameters, test outputs, and build internal or external interfaces.
Conclude by reinforcing how customer material information records fit into the SAP order-to-cash process, demonstrating optimization, error reduction, and value for customer relations; practice scenarios and share feedback.
Explore item proposal, material determination, cross-selling, and listings and exclusions. Learn how these functions differ from a customer material info record.
The benefits from this course include the following:
This course will provide you with a strong foundation for understanding & using SAP Customer Material Information Record, also known as the CMIR.
Completing this course you will be knowledgeable and confident in using a CMIR and applying it's usage to business scenarios in the order-to-cash process.
Be confident in accessing the CMIR transactions, & navigating the CMIR screens.
Be able to enter new CMIR records, update existing CMIR records and remove them when necessary.
This will help you when working with SAP; including various projects, production support, analysis work, customization of solutions, and more.
The course is structured as a series of easy to follow videos, starting from the business process, and working it's way through master data, then to sales order and delivery scenarios, and finally on to data modeling and advanced program customization.
A huge benefit for students will be found in being able to apply this knowledge on SAP projects, interviews, and more!
Also:
Being able to work with CMIRs will also be extremely valuable for integration work with SAP order to cash processes such as EDI where CMIRs may be used to automatically determine the SAP product for a specific customer product code. The same concept can be used for other integration processes as well like RFC integration.