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A Step by Step Guide to the SAP MM Inventory Management

SAP Inventory Management system allows you to manage stocks on a quantity and value basis in order to plan, enter, check goods movements and carry out physical inventories.'?

This paper will provide you with a step by step guide to the configuration of the Inventory Management under the MM modules.' 

Table of Contents
Objective'?
IMG Menu '€“ The Starting Point'?
Start of the SAP MM Inventory Management Configurations'?
The Basic Material Master Configuration : Units of measurement'?
Where does the user maintain the UOM?'?
Industry Type for Material Master'?
Delete or Add in Storage Location for the new Plant' 
General Plant Settings in Inventory Management' 
Define the Attributes of System Messages' 
Start of the Number Range Configurations' 
Define Number Assignment for Accounting Documents' 
Define Number Assignment for Material and Phys. Inv. Docs' 
Define Number Assignment for Reservations' 
Start of the Individual Fields IMG Settings' 
Field Selection for Goods Movements Initial/Header Screens' 
Field Selection for MIGO' 
Field Selection per Mvt Type' 
Define Screen Layout for Movement Type' 
Settings for Transactions and Reference Documents' 
Create Storage Location Automatically' 
Set Manual Account Assignment for Movement Type' 
Maintain Copy Rules for Reference Documents' 
Set Up Dynamic Availability Check' 
Generate Physical Inventory Documents for Goods Movements' 
Allow Negative Stocks' 
Set Missing Part Check' 
Default the '€œDelivery Completed'€?Indicator' 
For GR-Based IV, Reversal of GR Despite Invoice' 
Record Reason for Goods Movement' 
How to Define, Copy or Change a Movement Types?' 
Default Print Control for Material Document' 
Define Stock List Display for MMBE' 
Define Valuation Class' 
Configure Automatic Postings to G/L Accounts' 
Storage Location Indicator to allowed/disallowed Physical Inventory Freezing' 
Configuration for Vendor Consignment' 
Business Process Flow for Vendor Consignment' 
The Initial Inventory during Implementation' 
Static versus dynamic data conversion' 
A Sample note on Inventory Balance Conversion' 
Appendix A: The Inventory Goods Movement Configuration Links Explain' 
Appendix B: Restrict the Storage Location from any Goods Movement' 
Appendix C: Allows/Disallowed Goods Movement Posting to Previous Period' 
Appendix D: How to Archive the Materials Documents?' 
Appendix E: Configure the Cycle Count in SAP