SAP S4HANA Sourcing & Procurement

Course Information

SAP S/4HANA Overview
Navigation
- SAP Fiori UX -> SAP Business Client -> SAP Logon
System-wide concepts
- Organizational elements -> Master data concept (e.g. material master, business partner)
Logistics capabilities
- Purchase-to-pay processing -> Plan-to-Produce processing -> Order-to-Cash processing
Finance capabilities
- Financial Accounting -> Management Accounting
Human Resources capabilities
Embedded Analytics
SAP Activate
- Best Practices content

Navigation in SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise structure and organizational units relevant for sourcing and procurement processes
Master data: material master, supplier master (business partner), purchasing info record
Material valuation
Procurement of stock material
Procurement of consumable material
Self-service requisition process
Automated procurement process
Reporting, monitoring and analytics

Navigation in SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise structure and organizational units relevant for sourcing and procurement processes
Master data: material master, supplier master (business partner), purchasing info record
Material valuation
Procurement of stock material
Procurement of consumable material
Self-service requisition process
Automated procurement process
Reporting, monitoring and analytics

Invoice entry
- Invoice entry
- Invoice parking
- Tax, cash discount, and invoice in foreign currency
- Invoices for purchase orders with Account Assignment
Variances and invoice blocks
- Variances with and without item reference
- Blocking reasons
- Invoice reduction
- Release of blocked invoices
Subsequent debit/credit
Delivery costs
Credit memos and cancellation
Automated processes in invoice verification
GR/IR account maintenance
Customizing for logistics invoice verification

Purchasing master data
- Material master records
- Business partners
- Partner functions
Sources of supply and conditions
- Price determination basics
- Info records
- Contracts
- Scheduling agreements
Source determination
- Source determination with source lists
- Source determination with quota arrangements
- Additional aspects of source determination
- Blocking sources of supply
- Self-Service requisitioning with catalog
Optimized purchasing
- Processing unassigned and assigned purchase requisitions
- Monitoring purchase orders
- Deploying Situation Handling
Document release procedure
- Releasing purchasing documents
- Converting released purchase requisitions
- Configuring and creating release procedures
- Scenario-based Workflows
Specific procurement processes
- Creating invoices using invoice plans
- Creating blanket purchase orders
- Deploying subcontracting
- Purchasing with manufacturer part numbers
- Deploying additional special procurement processes
Supplier evaluation
- Evaluating suppliers using Logistics Information System
- Setting up supplier evaluation using Logistics Information System
- Explaining KPIs in supplier evaluation
Purchasing document types
- Configuring document types
- Setting up field selection
- Deploying version management
- Analyzing special aspects in customizing

Introduction to Consumption-Based Planning
- Explaining the function and results of MRP
- Outlining the MRP procedures
- General Configuration
Explaining and defining MRP areas
- Understanding the material master fields for consumption-based planning
- Explaining the MRP type and the related fields
- Understanding the lot-sizing settings
- Understanding and controlling scheduling
Execution of the planning run
- Describing the planning run
- Executing a planning run using classic MRP
- Executing a planning run using MRP Live
- Evaluating and converting the planning results
Forecasting
- Explaining basics of the forecast
- Executing and postprocessing the forecast
- Performing forecast-based planning
- Performing time-phased planning
- Performing automatic reorder point planning
Source Determination
- Explaining and controlling source determination in materials requirement planning