SAP Material Management Consultant Training Beginner to Adv

Explore how SAP ERP organizes data and structure via client, company codes, plants, and organizational data profiles, and how distribution channels, sales organizations, and material management components shape processes.

Explore basic concepts in material management, including material valuation areas, storage locations, and plant-level stocks, and see how purchasing organizations, vendor masters, and material masters support procurement and inventory.

Learn to create a vendor master record in SAP material management, including vendor number, currency in euros, address and contact details, partner functions, and purchasing views.

Create a material master record by entering descriptions, base units, and views. Define purchasing data, storage details, vendor selection, purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoice verification to complete procurement cycle.

Learn to create a purchase requisition and three PO scenarios: direct PO when known, vendor search when not, or PO referencing an existing requisition or RFQ.

Learn to create a purchase order from a purchase requisition, copy requisitions to the order, enter vendor and negotiated price, and post goods receipt and invoice verification.

Learn how invoice verification and goods receipt update stock in real time and link purchase orders to material postings. Explore how these processes create material and accounting documents.

Explore SAP material management, integrating purchasing with planning, goods receiving, inventory management, and invoice verification. Understand the procurement cycle from requirement determination to payment.

Explore procurement for stock and direct consumption in the material management system, covering stock and consumption posting, and forms: one-time orders, longer-term contracts with release orders, and share Dooling agreements.

Explore how enterprises are organized in the SAP system, detailing company, plant, and purchasing organization structures, and how centralized or distributed purchasing and reference organizations optimize contracts and procurement.

Navigate the purchasing menu, the starting point for all material management tasks, with access to transactions, reports, and purchasing documents. Create, display, or modify purchase orders, RFQs, quotations, and contracts.

Explore the structure of purchasing documents, separating header data from item details, and learn how document types like RFQ, purchase orders, and contracts organize records and number ranges.

Explore the SAP material master data and purchasing elements, including info records, source lists, vendors, pricing, MRP, and storage for end-to-end materials management.

Learn how materials information is organized across general, plant, and storage location data in SAP material management, covering material numbering, access controls, and data integrity for purchasing and planning.

Explore how vendor master data is organized across general data, company code data, and purchasing data, including account groups, number ranges, and currency for purchasing and payments.

Master data in purchasing covers info records and source lists that define unit of measure, price changes, and sources of supply, enabling supplier evaluation and optimal material procurement.

Explore how purchase requisitions drive material and service procurement in SAP MM, created manually or automatically from planning, projects, maintenance, and production orders, including procurement types.

Create purchase requisitions in sap material management: three manual methods—with master records, without, or by copying from an existing requisition—plus outline agreements and assigning sources.

Change purchase requisitions, flag PRs, display PR statuses, and archive requisitions in SAP material management, while understanding approval limits, status checks, and item-level edits.

Learn how an RFQ invites vendors to bid, how quotations and service outlines capture terms, and how price comparisons and rejection letters drive vendor selection.

Learn to create an rfq in sap material management by manual entry, copying from existing rfqs, or generating from requisitions, with prerequisites, deadlines, and vendor selection.

Create a material master in SAP by entering basic data, sales and purchasing views, and general data, including description, unit of measure, material group, storage location, MRP, and accounting details.

Learn to create and modify purchase requisitions in sap material management using transaction codes 51, 52, and 53, including material, quantity, delivery date, storage location, and cost center.

Explore how purchase orders drive procurement, from one-time orders and long-term outline agreements to external sourcing, vendor relations, and streamlined invoice verification using automatic processes.

Define a purchase order and describe its header and item data, procurement types, and service or external deliveries. Explain how lines, outlines, value limits, and release processes govern supplier orders.

Identify and compare item categories in SAP material management—standard, consignment, subcontracting, stock transfer, and third party—highlighting their stock and receipt requirements and account assignments.

Master how to create a purchase order in sap material management using known and unknown vendor procedures, stock transfers, vendor managed inventory, and associated prerequisites and data requirements.

Master SAP material management by creating purchase orders, including zero value orders with a free of charge indicator, assigning prices or conditions, and using references from requisitions, RFQs, or contracts.

Learn to use single and multiple account assignment for purchase orders, specifying assignment data and cost centers, and distributing costs via partial invoices across accounts and items.

Learn to create and manage outline purchase agreements with vendors, including centrally agreed and umbrella contracts, by copying or referencing RFQs, with header data and item pricing.

Explore how to change, cancel, or block outline agreements in SAP Material Management, including pricing implications, vendor communications, and release and invoicing effects.

Explore conditions in outline agreements within SAP Material Management, including contract types, release orders, quantity-based contracts, value-based contracts, item categories, and service specifications.

Distribute contracts across central and local systems to keep identical data synchronized through application links and intermediate documents, enabling coordinated release orders and centralized fulfillment oversight.

Create a contract manually or by referencing a document, combining both methods, and specify the purchasing organization, account assignment, and vendor data to enable release orders.

Explore how item category governs contract items in sap material management, including external service, consignment, subcontracting, and free form text items, and how release orders and assignments are used.

Discover how purchasing info records store vendor and material data for a purchasing organization, capturing prices, lead time, conditions, and default data for standard, subcontracting, pipeline, and consignment orders.

Explore infotech cards, info records, and purchase order texts linked to the material master to manage pricing and descriptions. Learn how conditions and price determination shape discounts and procurement outcomes.

Update info records in SAP material management by creating them manually or automatically, setting the info update indicator, and linking material number, vendor, pricing, and text to purchase orders.

Create and manage information records for materials in SAP MM, linking materials to vendors, purchasing organizations, and pricing conditions, including changes, deletion, and archiving.

Monitor info records and carry out a net price simulation to compare vendor prices for materials or material groups, using purchasing organization data, orders, and quotations.

Discover optimized purchasing by using requisitions, direct orders against existing agreements, and releases to speed procurement, while learning how source determination and contracts guide internal and external procurement.

Explore how SAP material management determines the best source for a purchase requisition by considering outline agreements, info records, plants, and source lists to streamline external and internal procurement.

Create and maintain source lists to define sources of supply for materials across defined periods, marking fixed, preferred, or blocked sources and enabling manual or automatic updates.

Maintains source lists and outline agreements in material management to control vendor access, validity periods, and release orders across plants and material groups.

Generate source lists automatically from outline agreements in SAP material management, specify materials to include or exclude, and manage validity periods and records for multiple materials.

Explore how to generate and tailor purchasing reports in SAP material management, tracking purchase orders by vendor, material, or purchasing organization, and analyzing delivery status, invoicing, and open purchase orders.

Learn to run general analyses in purchasing by selecting criteria, viewing the basic list, and applying totals, subtotals, and display variants across vendors, plants, and materials.

Explore how conditions and price determination set discounts, surcharges, and net price across time dependent and time independent terms in contracts, quotations, and info records.

Explore time-independent and time-dependent SAP conditions, how reference and purchasing organizations share negotiated terms, and how condition techniques define prices with type, table, access sequence, and calculation schema.