SAP MM INVENTORY MANAGEMENT : Technical Reference and Learning Guide by AGRAWAL, P. K.

SAP is a powerful software that meets the requirement of business all over the world. This well-organised book comprising 34 chapters is useful for both beginners and professionals. Being a learning guide and a user manual, the book will be immensely valuable for all those who are training to be SAP consultant. If you are a material/production manager, a QM professional or a business executive, you will find that the book brings a lot of convenience in your work and minimises inventory losses.

A New Approach to SAP Implementation
Structured dialog :The dialog between the consultant and the users should be based on the structure of this book. The consultant would demonstrate a business transaction, e.g. goods receipt, in its simplest form. He would then explain the data items on the screens, their meaning and significance. He would enquire whether the data item is relevant for the client company. The data items that are not relevant can be hidden in the implementation, and related configuration marked as not required. When the consultant would come to a section explaining IMG node, his questions to the user would be designed to collect the information required to configure that node.

Prototyping :As the structured dialog continues, the consultant would go on doing the configuration. By the end of the dialog, the consultant would have built a company-specific prototype.

Training and trials :The prototype would be a rough-cut implementation of SAP for the company. It would be used for training the users. After training, the users would try out the system. They would perform routine transactions several times using real-life data of their company. They would try different scenarios and record their observations.

Refinement :After prototype trials, the consultant and the users would sit together to discuss what the users required to do, but could not do with the prototype. The consultant would use this input to refine the prototype and to build new functionality, if needed.

Configuration manual :The documentation of SAP implementation includes a configuration manual. This configuration manual should be structured on the lines of this book as explained in Chapter 34. Such a configuration manual will be easy to understand as it groups logically related elements together.

User manual :This book will serve as a generic user manual. Company-specific user manual can also be structured on the lines of this book including only company-specific guidelines for the users.

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Preface

1. Enterprise Structure

2. Material

3. Goods and Accounts Movement

4. Stock

5. Goods Receipt

6. Goods Issue

7. Goods Return

8. Stock Transfer

9. Transfer Posting

10. Customer Returns

11. Subcontracting

12. Consignment Stock of Vendor

13. Consignment Stock with Customer

14. Project Stock

15. Sales Order Stock

16. Pipeline Material

17. Returnable Transport Packaging of Vendor

18. Returnable Transport Packaging with Customer

19. Goods Movement Reversal

20. Screen Layout

21. Movement Type and Other Configurations

22. Material Document

23. Accounting Documents

24. Output Determination

25. Material Valuation

26. Account Determination

27. Stock Determination

28. Reservation

29. Physical Inventory

30. Financial Accounting

31. Controlling

32. Periodic Processing

33. Archiving

34. Utilities

Index

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