SAP's 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. You will learn the essential skills needed to ensure efficient and sensible use of the Inventory Management services within the MM Module.

Learn To:

• Basic Principles.
• Inventory Management.
• Material Master Record.
• The Different Goods Movements.
• Goods Receipt.
• Reference to Purchase Order.
• Input Help.
• Cancellations and Returns.
• Goods Issues.
• Without Reservation.
• Reservations.
• Goods Issue with Reservation.
• Transfer Postings and Physical Inventory.
• Transfer Postings.
• General Inventory Procedures.
• Physical Inventory.

Content Emphasis

Skills-Based

Audience

Everyone involved in Stock Control and related materials management activities. User Support staff and Project Team members needing to acquire a user perspective of the SAP system. Participants should have knowledge and skills relating to their organization's financial processes, standards and procedures. Participants should have basic knowledge of Windows or other graphical user interfaces (GUI), as well as basic knowledge of the SAP R/3 system. The following courses provide the education which will ensure most productive study of course 13178: 12749 SAP R/3 Fundamentals and course 13181 Working with SAP R/3.

Total Learning Time

4 - 8 Hour(s)

Course Contents

Unit 1: Basic Principles

• Inventory Management.
• Purpose of Inventory Management.
• Cooperation between Departments.
• Goods Receipt for a Purchase Order.
• Movement Types.
• Material Master Record.
• Material Master Record.
• Maintenance and Areas of Application.
• Stock Types.
• The Different Goods Movements.
• With Reference Document.
• Without Reference Document.
• External Goods Receipt.
• Goods Issues.
• Transfer Postings.
• Stock Transfers.

Unit 2: Goods Receipts

• Reference to Purchase Order.
• Menu Path to the Initial Screen.
• Delivery Note Data.
• Movement Type and Goods Issue Slip.
• Purchase Order Items.
• Input Help.
• Purchase Order Number Unknown.
• Vendor Material Number.
• Cancellations and Returns.
• Cancellation.
• Return Delivery.

Unit 3: Goods Issues

• Without Reservation.
• Internal Stagings.
• Goods Issue for a Cost Center.
• Goods Issue Items.
• Checks.
• Reservations.
• Planning Reservations.
• Manual Reservations.
• Reservation Items.
• Matchcode Search.
• Checking the Reservation.
• Goods Issue with Reservation.
• With Reference to Document Types.
• With Reference to a Reservation.
• Document Search.

Unit 4: Transfer Postings and Physical Inventory

• Transfer Postings.
• Stock Transfer.
• Stock Transfer Items.
• Stock Overview.
• Transfer Posting.
• Movement Types.
• General Inventory Procedures.
• Objectives.
• Inventory Procedures.
• Preparatory Phase.
• Carrying out the Physical Inventory.
• Physical Inventory.
• Carrying out the Physical Inventory.
• Transferring the Count Results.
• Entering the Count Results.
• Posting the Inventory Differences.