SAP MM - Procurement Process (Employee Self-Service) using Fiori App (2023)

 

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SAP MM - Purchasing Contract as Source of Supply FIORI App

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SAP PP - MF50 Selected Features in Repetitive Manufacturing

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SAP PP/MM MRP - Lot Size using Planning Calendar

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Q&A in Class (2024-02-20) S4610

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Pricing Conditions in Sales Order and Outbound Delivery flow to Billing Document

Normally we expect only Pricing Conditions from the Sales Order item to flow into the Billing document after the Outbound Delivery is processed. However, there are possibilities to enter additional Pricing Conditions in the Outbound Delivery (example: Freight charges, Surcharges, Additional Packing charges etc). In this case, we should expect both the Pricing Conditions from both the Sales Order and Outbound Delivery to the Billing Document. 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e6CnK3FQ_CS5J_poyaL_kg83ZoCeI-YU2f7VbscxPoU/edit?usp=sharing

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Log of Incomplete Items

The "Incompletion Log" reminds the user when data important for further processing is missing from the sales document. And this includes missing fields in the Sales Order Header, Sales Order item level, and also Outbound Delivery Header and Outbound Delivery item level. But no at the Billing Document level (as at S/4 2023). 

For activation "Incomplete data check" at the Outbound Delivery level, "Incomplete Procedures" can be assigned to the Delivery Type as well as Delivery Item Category. 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gsy2PeEXHxXYatIZeDHgjeZhbkWj0scZbcfvXoyk_4k/edit?usp=sharing 

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Quantity checks

via the Delivery item Category, the following Quantity Checks can be setup:

1. Whether Quantity zero is allowed.

2. When Quantity is zero to show Warning or Error. 

3. Minimum Quantity Check to show Warning or Error.

4. Over delivery Check to show Warning or Error.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UXWOl56OsjhK63KjzdN5MzLuQQ-4_dwqSS3cVokhoO0/edit?usp=sharing

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Text Type content flow from one Sales Document to another Sales Document

User can enter Text in Text Type at the Header as well as the Sales Order item level, and these Text contents can flow to the follow-on documents like the Outbound Delivery Header and Outbound Delivery item. And this is not limited to just Text content flow from Sales Order to Outbound Delivery but also Text contents flow from the Business Partner (Customer), Customer-Material Info Record, or to even Billing Document. Text Types in various Document in SD can be user-defined and the collection of Text Types (Text IDs) are configured in "Text Procedures" where the Source and Target of Text contents are setup.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l3Lt3p5VxbYakvjRsK91dwVLwVdne15EyIeM-36iNEU/edit?usp=sharing

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Export Controls

SAP release "Foreign Trade" Solution for ECC see https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP/7027faa96fc547d4a83845fe8bbfd6a8/fc6ab8535c39b44ce10000000a174cb4.html?version=6.03.latest

SAP release "GTS" Solution Solution for ECC (since 2003) to replace "Foreign Trade" in ECC see

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_GLOBAL_TRADE_SERVICES/bdb1d2fb216941a69f6300006343e977/4addc57455992472e10000000a42189c.html

1. SAP S/4 GTS replaces the ECC Foreign Trade.
2. SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) is software that allows companies to support and define import and export trade processes in SAP ERP.
3. SAP GTS is the only option for companies that would like to generate the declarations for import, transit or export themselves, either for self-filing (in selected countries) or through submission through a customs broker.
4. SAP GTS architecture with its extensive SD and MM integration.
5. Some Use links on SAP GTS:
• https://www.sap.com/sea/products/financial-management/global-trade-management.html
• https://sapboost.com/overview-on-sap-gts
• https://blogs.sap.com/2022/10/18/sap-s-4hana-for-international-trade-vs-sap-global-trade-services/
• https://blogs.sap.com/2023/04/04/12-good-reasons-to-move-to-sap-gts-edition-for-sap-hana/
• https://www.sap-press.com/introducing-international-trade-management-with-sap-s4hana_5022/

SAP AG introduced the product SAP GTS in 2003, a solution which ensures that legal regulations in customs and trade can be adhered to. Compliance with legal framework regulations for international trade can be especially well achieved with the help of the GTS customs and foreign trade solution.

 
With the introduction of S/4HANA, SAP provides a new International Trade function within the Governance, Risk and Compliance component. International Trade is in a sense the successor of the foreign trade functions of the ECC. It has been newly implemented and contains more functions than SD-FT but is not as powerful as SAP Global Trade Services (GTS). SAP S/4HANA for international trade is not a replacement for SAP GTS. SAP Global Trade Services are here to stay and remains the flagship product of SAP in the area of cross-border compliance and customs management.

SAP S/4HANA for international trade is meant to cover basic requirements for export control, Intrastat reporting and product classification. In this regard, international trade is comparable with the SD-Foreign Trade functionality in SAP ECC. However, Foreign Trade and international trade are not functionally identical or similar feature by feature.

SAP S/4HANA for international trade supports classification limited to commodity codes, HS tariff codes and Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCN). For many companies, this is sufficient.

SAP GTS supports a more comprehensive range of classifications; conceptually, any numbering scheme can be defined. GTS also supports the correlation between numbering schemes, for instance, that a specific assignment of an HS-code triggers mandatory maintenance of another classification, for example, FDA codes or ECCN.

(source: SAP community)

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Dangerous Goods Check

As part of the E&HS (Environment Health and Safety Solution), This process enables you to check sales documents with regard to dangerous goods legal criteria that you entered in the corresponding dangerous goods master data.

Dangerous goods checks in sales documents support the following sales document categories

• Inquiry
• Quotation
• Sales order
• Scheduling agreement
• Scheduling agreement with external agent
• Contract

If you have set the DIs rel. for checks indicator in the IMG activity Activate Dangerous Goods Checks in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management, only materials in the sales document that are relevant for the check are then checked. You mark materials as relevant for checking by assigning them a dangerous goods indicator profile in the Basic Data 2 view in the material master. You must have set this indicator profile as relevant for dangerous goods checks in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management in the IMG activity Specify Indicator Profiles for the Material Master. Indicator profiles that are set only as dangerous goods are provided for information purposes only. 

After the dangerous goods checks have been executed, a dialog box is displayed with the message for the check method that determines the complete reaction for the check schema.

If there are log entries, you can access them in the check log from the dialog box. If the (save online) indicator is set in Customizing for the check method that determines the complete reaction, the Save pushbutton is displayed, and you decide whether the document should be saved.

A blog post will be created to demonstration the setup and Dangerous Goods Check for either Sales Order and/or Outbound Delivery in the future.

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Group of Outbound Deliveries

A Group number (internal number) can be generated for a list of Outbound Deliveries created via Collective creation of Outbound Deliveries (eg: via t-code VL10A, VL10C, VL10E). Subsequently the Group number can be used to Process the Outbound Deliveries activities in VL06O like: Create TO, Confirm TO, Loading, Post Goods Issue. 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Lgn2A0somNtssRm4M-V6Dmyhguo3JFq7OMNP0xfJOBs/edit?usp=sharing

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Delivery Split by Warehouse

If a Sales Order contain Sales items with different Picking Locations, and the Picking Locations are assigned to different Warehouses. It is possible to decide to either convert to the Sales Order (2 items) into One Outbound Delivery with 2 items OR split the Sales Order 2 items into 2 Outbound Deliveries due to the Split criterion of Warehouse. And this is not needed to be configured via the Copy Rules but via a "Delivery Split by Warehouse" indicator the the Warehouse number in Standard SAP IMG (SPRO). 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nkDJlgJYmA4vDi9-9eJwR2GdcVGeypsI45z1wVDSlzA/edit?usp=sharing

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Controllable Error Messages

Some activities like if the Outbound Delivery to be posted have exceeded the "Under Delivery Tolerances" (VL064), in Standard SAP; this can be achieved by configuration of either "I" (Info only), "W" (Warning), or "E" (Error) when the scenario is processed. 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16eEWwRwFiPC7dY_4H8NaYMy84m9NEde8-2AIGLZ3_Mk/edit?usp=sharing

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Credit and Risk Management

The Classic ECC Credit Check (Credit Management) has now been replaced by new functionality of Credit Management in S/4HANA. While the Credit Control Area is still an Enterprise Structure relevant in the S/4 system; the new Credit check is configured using the "Credit Segment" via Partner Role (UKM000) in the Customer Business Partner, which means several advantages of the new S/4 Credit Management and click here: help.sap.com via SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) to check the Functionality details.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jcsGaUp-yENs1oHOx_Ztnv5PQaV7ZBeIpVTcEczYcAY/edit?usp=sharing

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Material substitution in S/4HANA

In S/4 HANA SD, "Material determination" is a condition technique used to resolve a target material number from the material number entered in a sales document (Customer material entered in a sales order is replaced with a material number, as assigned in the master data record of the material). 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JFkOkvbZhqhjSohh_NjYFTkD5yD9imKblc_QVgJeugY/edit?usp=sharing

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SAP PM - Inspection Round Planning

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SAP MM - Reservation Fiori Apps

 

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Question no 3989 : Item Category in the BOM item for Stock Scenario

In SAP Production Planning and Execution, which of the following item category in the BOM item are for Stock scenario ?

(more than one scenario)

A. Item category "L".
B. Item category "R".
C. Item category "N".
D. Item category "T".
E. Item category "M".
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Answer: A, B

Item category "L" and "R" (Variable size item) are both Stock scenario.

SAP MM - IM Analytics "Analyze Stock in Date Range" Fiori App

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SAP MM - Origin Acceptance in Purchasing and Goods Receipt

 

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SAP MM - Material Ledger "S" and "V" calculations in S/4

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SAP Navigation - Wildcard Search (S/4 2022)

 

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S/4 MM and WM - Inbound Delivery Processing (2) Classic ERP Warehouse

 

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SAP PP - MRP Live using MD01N Gui vs FIORI

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S/4 MM - Inbound Delivery Processing (1) Rough Storage

 

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SAP SD - aATP Alternative Based Confirmation

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Question no 3988 : Procurement scenario without Goods Receipt

In SAP Material Management, which of the following item category and account assignment combination will not allow Goods Receipt of the Purchase Order ?

(more than one answers)

A. Item category "L" and Account Assignment " ".

B. Item category "B" and Account Assignment "U".

C. Item category "D" and Account Assignment "K".

D. Item category "K" and Account Assignment " ".

E. Item category "D" and Account Assignment "U".

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Answer: B, C, E

Item Category "B" Limit (Blanket PO) or Item Category "D" (External Serves) both allow Account Assignment "U" (Unknown" and Account Assignment like "K" for Cost Center.

For Item Category "B" (Blanket PO) scenario, no Goods Receipt is allowed for the Purchase Order item.

For Item Category "D" (External Service) scenario, Instead of Goods Receipt the follow-up function is Service Entry.

Q&A in Class (2024-02-06) S4610

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Pictorial view of SD Process Flow Data Elements

A Blog Post will be posted soon to detail the above SD Data Element determination using the SAP System

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SAP Decentralized EWM - Setup Master Data for EWM Staging

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SAP LDM - Engineering Change Alternative Dates

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QM - What is X-Bar S Control Chart ?

 

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SAP MM - LIV Return PO with Credit Memo

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Q&A in Class (2024-02-01) S4510

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"Origin Accept" in Delivery Tab in PO item detail

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SAP MM - Origin Acceptance in Purchasing and Goods Receipt

"Origin Acceptance" or "Acceptance at Origin" is a feature introduced by SAP when it release 2 new Movement Type "107" and "109". Unlike the previous Movement Type of "103" and "105" where "103" is called "Non Valuated GR Blocked Stock". 

In "103" and "105"

Result of "103" received into Non Valuated GR Blocked Stock (at Plant Level) but not Stock Value

In Step 2 "105" when Stocks are received into Un-restricted (at SLoc Level) will have FI Posting

In "107" and "109"

Result of "107" received into Valuated GR Blocked Stock (at Plant Level) with Stock Value

In Step 2 "109" when Stocks are received into Un-restricted (at SLoc Level) with no FI Posting

Coupling "Origin Acceptance" with "107" and "109" means the following:

Materials are checked at the Vendor Premises, and with the Stock still at Vendor location; we will receive using "107" with FI Posting and therefore we shall be liable to pay the Vendor. This can be of multiple purpose:

1. In import procurement, the buyer or purchasing organization typically negotiates with a vendor to accept goods or to take ownership of goods at the vendor premises. In other words, the buying entity takes the financial ownership of the goods at the vendor premises and is therefore liable to pay the vendor even though the goods have not yet physically arrived at the buyer’s location (plant/warehouse). In international commerce trading terminology it is called EX-Works procurement and recognized by the International Commercial Term (Incoterm) “EXW”.

2. In situation where the factory uses 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) to stock the Purchased Materials, Vendor will send the Material to the 3PL which we receive using "107" and when we need the Material in the Factory, the Stock will be Released using "109" to receive into the Factory. 

3. "Origin Acceptance" can be coupled with SAP QM so that in step 1 using "107", the material will be inspected at the Vendor (Source Inspection) and when check to be good; the Material will be send and received using "109" into the Factory. 

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Material Document Overview Fiori App

Material field do not allow Wildcard eg: "*510*"

The Purpose is to test use of Wildcard * Search

Test result, click here:

Looks like
wildcard * at front
wildcard * at back
wildcard * at front and back works
BUT
wildcard * in the middle is not possible

Test is limited to 4 Fiori Apps on selected fields (investigation is not 100% conclusive)

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SAP SCM-EWM - Post Goods Receipt to Prod Order and Complete in EWM

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SAP QM - Sampling Procedure Valuation Mode "700" and "800"

 

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