SAP MM Purchasing Simplified for Beginners

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This video will show you the big picture, meaning where Purchasing fits into SAP ERP Operations.

It's about the procurement process and the possible or required documents in Materials Management.

The necessary organizational units for Purchasing will be presented.

Short overview of the relevant master data in Purchasing.

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How to create a Vendor Master using the transaction MK01.

How to add the purchasing view to an existing Vendor Master, how to block or unblock a Vendor Master and how to call a list of Vendors.

In this video I'm going to demonstrate how to display a material master, how to extend it and how to create a materials list.

You're going to learn about the functions and structure of Info Records, but also how to manually create one.

How to handle service masters and service conditions.

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Ultimately, you're able to use the transaction ME51N to create a Standard PR. This Purchase Requisiton will contain three items, one for stock material, one for consumption and one for services.

By the end, you know how to display a worklist using the Document Overview within the change transaction ME52N, how to assign a source of supply and run a price simulation and how to use the Follow-on Functions ME56 Assign or ME57 Assign and Process.

By the end you know the transaction screen of ME21N, how PR-items are converted to a Purchase Order and how the documents PR and PO are thus connected in the system.

How to create and print a Purchase Order without a preceding document.

After the PO has been send to the vendor, the actual order processing would thus be terminated. But else, there's the Order Acknowledgement by the vendor, which will be explained in this lecture.

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Short preview of the lectures in this section about More Purchasing Processing.

By the end you're able to use the transaction ME41 to create RFQ's, to use the transaction ME47 to maintain the quotations and finally, the transaction ME49 to run a price comparison report.

In this lecture I'm going to demonstrate a complete purchasing process including a quantity contract.

To complete the subject outline agreements, the value contract and the scheduling agreement will be presented.

To simplify and accelerate such business transactions, a Blanket Purchase Order, also called Framework Order, is appropriate. And in this lexture I'm going to explain to you this special form of simplified procurement.

You're getting to know in which order the system looks for possible sources of supply, how to maintain a Source List using the transaction ME01 and how a Quota Arrangement works.

In Purchasing, users create documents that represent commitments to other companies. For that reason, it’s recommended to check and monitor the documents in terms of content and value.

You're going to get an overview of other possible types of procurement such as consignment, subcontracting, third-party processsing and stock transfer using stock transfer order.

In addition to the Purchasing component in SAP ERP, there are other SAP solutions for the procurement of goods and services.

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The last video in the course.