
Explore SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, from creating purchase orders and goods receipts to invoice verification within the P2P cycle. Learn master data, material and vendor records, and end-to-end procurement.
Introduce SAP S/4HANA and the HANA in-memory database, showing how real-time sourcing and procurement run across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments.
Compare SAP Fiori and SAP GUI interfaces, highlighting the SAP Fiori Launchpad, tile-based apps, responsive design, role-based access, and embedded analytics for SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement.
Learn how to use SAP GUI and SAP Easy Access for SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, including navigating menus, favorites, transaction codes, and SPRO configuration.
Map SAP Fiori apps to roles via the SAP Fiori Apps Library and verify in su01; create or copy roles in PFCG to grant access for S/4HANA sourcing and procurement.
Identify ACP user roles needed to access CBS for home sourcing and procurement in SAP S/4HANA, including sub purchaser, central purchaser, and inventory manager.
Discover the universal journal (ACDOCA) as the single source of truth in S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, and learn data simplification and compatibility views for faster, reconciled reporting.
Explore configuring enterprise structure in SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, including client, company code, plant, storage locations, purchasing organization, and intercompany stock transfers for a UK Tools ABC scenario.
Define the enterprise structure in SAP S/4HANA finance using client levels (development, testing, production) and country templates to create and transport company codes with global parameters and business areas.
Explore greenfield and rollout projects with brownfield, upgrade, and support scenarios in SAP S/4HANA. Learn blueprint documentation and gap analysis, plus SAP Activate phases: prepare, explore, realize, deploy.
Discover SAP Activate, a six-phase, agile implementation framework that blends best practices, guided configuration, and agile project delivery. The lecture highlights the six phases and the realize phase focus.
Explore how customizing requests are saved, released, and transported across development, quality, and production using the transport organizer, including se09 views, workbench requests, copies, relocations, cc1, and sdmc_import.
Explain enterprise structure configuration for logistics general, including plant, valuation level and area choices, their effect on material stocks and gl accounts, and define plants, divisions, and business areas.
Configures the enterprise structure for SAP sales and distribution, detailing sales organization, distribution channels, divisions, plants, and sales areas, with inter-company and stock transfer considerations.
Configure enterprise structure for materials management in SAP S/4HANA, defining storage locations by plant, assigning purchasing organizations to company codes, and mapping global procurement scenarios across the UK and US.
Explore enterprise structure configuration for logistics execution in SAP S/4HANA, including defining shipping points, loading points, storage locations, and plant associations, and understand stock transfers between UK and US.
Learn to configure purchasing groups in sap s/4hana mm by creating groups that represent a buyer or team, with a three-digit alphanumeric key and contact details.
Configure fiscal year variants and posting period variants for UK and US, including special periods for postings, with period open for transactional postings and last period closed, using ACP system.
Apply the variant principle to create and assign a fiscal year variant with posting and special periods in SAP S/4HANA, including calendar year configuration and company code assignments.
Configure posting period variants to open the current period for postings and close the last, assign to company codes, and use year-based calendars with y or z prefixed variants.
Open and close periods for material master records in SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, using MRV for previous-period posting and MBB for closing, with SPRO/AMG configuration.
Explore configuring chart of accounts and general ledger accounts in SAP S/4HANA finance for sourcing and procurement, including field status variant and company code alignment.
Classify general ledger accounts for document splitting in SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement to enable IFRS-compliant segment reporting, using item categories tied to GL number ranges.
Configure the controlling area for SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, create profit centers, cost centers, and cost elements, and set up master data with group currency USD and local currencies.
Master profit center and cost center hierarchies as an end user, create master data, assign segments and company codes, configure cost elements with category in sap s/4hana sourcing and procurement.
Configure default account assignment for cost center and profit center in SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement using OKB nine, linking a cost element to a G.L. account.
Configure currency settings, maintain exchange rates, and set up ledgers and accounting principles in SAP S/4HANA for sourcing and procurement, including global currency conversion and leading ledger setup.
Configure SAP S/4HANA gl accounts for automatic postings of exchange rate differences in sourcing and procurement, including reconciliation accounts, translation and valuation postings for open items.
Configure tax on sales and purchases in SAP S/4HANA for sourcing and procurement, covering tax calculation procedure, tax codes, rates, GL accounts, and non-taxable company codes.
Configure tolerance limits for users, G/L accounts, and customers or vendors in SAP S/4HANA, defining local currency posting limits and open item differences.
Configure cross-company code transactions to enable stock transfers between UK and US company codes, including debit and credit posting keys and creating clearing accounts for each side.
Configure asset accounting in SAP S/4HANA finance to enable asset purchases via purchase orders with account assignment categories, covering depreciation areas, chart of depreciation, asset classes, currencies, and GL integration.
Demonstrates how to create an asset master record in SAP S/4HANA, entering asset class and company code, and configuring master data and depreciation areas.
Configure and activate the material ledger in SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement, defining ledger types, assigning valuation areas, and validating with test runs and production startup.
Learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA finance with sourcing and procurement by configuring automatic postings, account determination, and valuation grouping, class, and material type mappings to GL accounts for inventory movements.
Explore how to configure business partner rules for vendor and customer master data, create vendor, customer, and material master records, and manage automatic or manual number assignment in SAP S/4HANA.
Explore how SAP S/4HANA uses the BP transaction to create and extend business partner master data for vendors and customers, and configure partner roles and schemas for purchasing documents.
In this SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement lecture, an end user creates vendor master data as a business partner, covering general data, company code data, and purchasing data.
Create three local suppliers and one foreign customer, then extend one local supplier to the US company code with purchasing data and reconciliation accounts to enable stock transport order processing.
Demonstrates creating business partner and vendor master data in SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement using ACP 50, with required roles, and copying master data to add new suppliers.
Learn how to create a one time vendor master in SAP S/4HANA MM with manual number assignment, including external number ranges, BP roles, and purchasing organization data.
Configure and create a foreign customer in SAP by defining number ranges, BP field groupings, and partner determinations, including sold to, bill to, ship to, and pay to parties.
Create and extend a customer master in sap s/4hana using bp, configuring general data, company code data, and sales organization data with shipping, payment terms, and partner functions.
Learn how to configure and create material master data in SAP using MM01, covering material types, industry sectors, number ranges, and the views for purchasing, sales, MRP, and accounting.
Configure the material master by managing screen sequences and data screens in SPRO, copying templates, and assigning screen sequences to material types and industries with ABAP programs.
Configure field selection in the material master by assigning fields to selection groups via field reference key, controlling statuses for material types, transaction codes, industry sectors, plants, and procurement types.
Learn how to configure SAP S/4HANA material master settings, including material number formats and lengths, internal and external number ranges, and material types.
Learn how to configure material groups in SAP S/4HANA, classify materials into raw materials, semi-finished goods, finished goods, trading goods, services, and assets, and apply groups across company codes.
Configure key fields in the material master, including division, external material group (optional), material statuses, ABC indicators, laboratories and offices, storage conditions, temperature conditions, container requirements, and international article numbers.
Configure units of major groups and units of measure for the material master, including base and order units, with conversion factors such as 12 units and 144 units.
Configure purchasing value keys in the material master to automate vendor delivery reminders and apply supplier evaluation within SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement.
Learn to create trading goods material master data in SAP S/4HANA MM, including setting material type trading goods, entering plant, sales, pricing, and MRP data using MRM01.
Compare moving average price and standard price for materials, showing how moving average updates with purchases, while standard price remains fixed and price differences post to GL accounts.
Create and configure raw materials in SAP S/4HANA using the material master, set external procurement, assign plant data and valuation, and apply cost and price settings for in-house production.
Learn how to create a semi-finished product in the SAP materials master, configuring producing and work scheduling data, pricing, and MRP settings for in-house manufacturing and external procurement.
Create finished goods in SAP S/4HANA by entering material master data, then configure and assign a multi-level product hierarchy to finished products for sales and costing analysis.
Create services as a materials master data type in SAP S/4HANA; they can be performed internally or procured externally and cannot be stored or transported.
Create packaging material master data in sap mm by selecting packaging material type and carton packaging. Configure views for sales, purchasing, and accounting with valuation class 3050 and standard price.
Explore configuring pricing procedure or calculation schema in SAP MM, defining condition types, excess sequences, and assigning them to purchase orders to calculate gross price, taxes, freight, and discounts.
Configure document types and number ranges for purchasing documents in SAP, covering purchase orders, requisitions, RFQ, contracts, and scheduling agreements, with item categories, field selection, bridging requisitions, and default values.
Explore how item category configurations govern procurement processes, including account assignment, goods receipt, and invoice receipt through document types, and learn standard, consignment, and subcontracting categories in SAP MM.
Configure purchasing info records to store the vendor–material relationship and apply terms, prices, and planned delivery time, with field status and text linkages managed at plant and purchasing organization levels.
Create a purchasing info record in SAP S/4HANA as an end user, specifying vendor, material, plant, price conditions, incoterms, and tax codes to streamline future procurement.
Create purchasing info records for raw materials in SAP Fiori, selecting supplier and material, setting order quantities, delivery times, prices, and using in-full update to auto-create records from purchase orders.
Configure and create source lists of supply for a material and plant, using manual or automatic creation, validate vendors, and enforce mandatory source lists via material master settings.
Explore quota arrangement usage in SAP S/4HANA MM to distribute a material's total requirement across multiple sources, configure number ranges, simulate source determination, and maintain quota calculations.
Demonstrate how an end user initiates direct material procurement by creating RFQs (M41), maintaining quotations, and performing price comparisons across suppliers in SAP S/4HANA MM.
Learn to configure tolerance limits for price variance in sap s/4hana sourcing and procurement, defining lower and upper limits and cash discount thresholds per company code via SPRO.
Maintain quotations in SAP S/4HANA by entering net prices, quantities, and units, and save multiple quotations while adjusting prices to meet minimum order quantities.
Explore the price comparison list for end users in SAP S/4HANA sourcing and procurement. Compare quotations from multiple suppliers, apply minimum value filters, and review payment terms and supplier details.
Explore the procurement to payment cycle in SAP S/4HANA MM, covering MRP, requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, and logistics invoice verification, plus three-way matching and accounting document flows.
The course will prepare the students to learn and understand all the necessary end-to-end implementation steps to configure SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement 2021, previously known as SAP MM (Materials Management), along with End-User activities for any organization.
After this course, the students will be able to identify and analyze the business requirements for any organization related to the Procurement to Payment process cycle and to configure SAP S4 HANA Sourcing and Procurement accordingly.
After taking this course, the Learners will be able to work both as a Consultant and End-User and can also take SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement certification exam i.e., C_TS452_2410.
Most of the lectures under each Section can easily be identified for 'Configuration' and 'End-User' activities, so if you are interested in the ‘End-User’ training only, then you can filter those lectures easily.
Here are the highlights of the course:
- Section 1 is about the SAP S/4HANA Business Suite and its HANA database capabilities including SAP Fiori and Universal Journal – ACDOCA
- Section 2 is the one from where the configuration of the module on SAP system is executed
- Section 4 makes this course unique by demonstrating the configuration on SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling module that is required to work on SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement module and you will not easily find this information in most of the other training courses
- Section 6 demonstrates the configuration and creation of Business Partner master data including Vendor and Customer master data
- Section 7 demonstrates the configuration for Material master data and then show how to create a Material master
- Section 8 is important in terms of understanding the configuration related to Calculation schema, Document types/Order types, and Item category
- Section 9 shows the master data in Materials management such as Purchasing info records, Source list, and Quota arrangement usage
- Section 10 demonstrates the first transaction by posting the Request for Quotation as an End-User to kick off the Purchasing to Payment cycle
- Section 11, 12, and 13 show the follow-up transactions after RFQ such as Purchase requisition, Purchase order, Goods receipt, and Logistics invoice verification after their relevant configuration first as a part of Direct Material Procurement
- Section 17 kicks off the demonstration for the Indirect Material Procurement processes
- After Direct and Indirect Material Procurement processes in the previous sections, the course is divided into the functionalities related to the following three fundamental areas till Section 30:
o Purchasing Documents
o Good Movements (Goods Receipt)
o Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV)
- Section 18 demonstrates the Outline agreement that includes Quantity and Value contracts, and Scheduling agreement as a part of Purchasing documents
- Sections 19 and 20 demonstrate the Good Movement processes related to Stock transfer and Intercompany purchasing
- Section 22 demonstrates the Physical inventory count method while Section 23 further demonstrates the processes related to the Goods Movement (MIGO)
- Section 25 demonstrates the processes related to the Logistics invoice verification (MIRO) that include Invoicing Plan Types i.e., Periodic and Partial (Milestone-based)
- Section 29 demonstrates the process of GR/IR Account Maintenance
- Section 31 and later sections demonstrate Material classification, Batch management, Material price changes, Split valuation, Version management, Enhancements related to Public templates, Serial numbers, etc.
- Section 36 demonstrates MRP (Material Requirements Planning) along with its configuration and end-user activities
- Section 37 demonstrates the configuration and end-user activities for PO Release Strategy
- Section 39 and 40 display the reporting and list displays in SAP Gui and reporting and analytical apps in SAP Fiori including Procurement Overview and Inventory Overview
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