Master Data

Master Data

Data that is created centrally and it is valid for all applications. It remains constant over the time but we need to update it on regular basis.

Material Master Data

The material master contains information of all the materials that a company procures, produces, stores and sells. It is the company’s central source for retrieving material-specific data.

The integration of all material data in a single database object eliminates redundant data storage. The data contained in the material master is required, for example, for the following functions:

^§    In purchasing for ordering

^§    In inventory management for goods movement postings and physical inventory

^§    In invoice verification for posting invoices

^§    In sales and distribution for sales order processing

^§    In production planning and control for material requirements planning, scheduling, and work scheduling

The following figures display the structure of the material master records.

·         Basic data

·         Classification

·         Purchasing

·         Purchasing order text

·         Sales

·         Sales text

·         MRP

·         Work Scheduling

·         General Plant Data / Storage

·         Warehouse Management

·         Quality Management

·         Accounting

·         Costing

·         Plant Stock

·                     Storage Location Stock

It is a Master file which contains information of a particular material, depending upon the views selected from the user departments.

Enterprise Structure T-Codes

Enterprise Structure T-Codes

Enterprise Structure Assignment

Enterprise Structure Assignments

Assign Plant to Company Code

Menu path:   Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® Enterprise Structure

                    ® Assignment ® Logistics general ® Assign Plant to Company Code

Transaction Code:   OX18

Assign purchasing organization to company code

Menu path:  Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® Enterprise Structure

® Assignment ® Logistics general ® Assign purchasing organization to company code

Transaction Code:   OX01

Assign purchasing organization to Plant

Menu path:   Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® Enterprise Structure

® Assignment ® Logistics general ® Assign purchasing organization to Plant

Transaction Code:   OX17

Enterprise Structure Configuration

Enterprise Structure Configuration

Plant

Menu path:    Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® Enterprise Structure

® Definition ® Logistics general ® Define, copy, delete, check plant

Transaction Code:   OX10

    Storage Location

Menu path:   Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® Enterprise Structure

® Definition ® Materials Management ® Maintain Storage

Transaction Code:   OX09

Purchase Organization

Menu path:  Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® Enterprise Structure® Definition ® Materials Management  Maintain Purchasing Organization

Transaction Code:   OX08

Purchasing groups

 path:   Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG) ® MaterialsManagement  Purchasing  Create Purchasing Groups

Transaction Code:   OME4

SAP MM - Organizational Units

Plant:

A Plant is a logistics organization level where procurement, production and materials planning, Inspection and testing are performed. Any of these locations may be termed a plant. Plants are assigned to a company code.

Storage Location

Storage location is an organizational unit allowing the differentiation of material stocks within a plant. All data referring to a particular storage location is stored at storage location level. This applies mainly to stocks in storage location. The physical inventory is done at the storage location level.

Purchase Organization

Purchasing organization is an organizational unit within logistics, subdividing an enterprise according to the requirements of purchasing. A purchasing organization procures materials and services, negotiates conditions of purchase with vendors, and bears responsibility for such transactions.

Purchasing groups

Purchasing group is a buyer or a group of buyers’ responsible for certain purchasing activities.

Enterprise Structure

Enterprise Structure

Every organization has some framework or some structure is defined according to which the whole business runs. Enterprise structure is the structure that represents an enterprise in SAP ERP system. It is subdivided into various organizational units which for legal reason or business related reason are grouped together.

Enterprise structure defines various levels in an organization. These levels are placed according to some hierarchy. Each level has some specific functionality associated with it, which in a combined way describes the working of an organization. Also enterprise structure defines various organizational units that are present in an enterprise. The Organizational Structure in MM consists of following Organizational Levels:

·        Client

·        Company Code

·        Plant

·        Storage Location

·        Purchasing Organization

·        Purchasing Group

SAP MM - Overview

SAP MM - Overview

SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is commercial software that will integrate all information altogether in a single software considering various factors like time and cost. Organizations can easily meet their business demands with the help of SAP.

SAP Business Process

SAP MM is known as SAP Material Management system. SAP MM role in business process is as follows:

• A business process in SAP is termed as “Module”.
• SAP Materials Management (MM) is a part of Logistics area and helps to manage the procurement activity of an organization from procurement.
• It supports all aspects of material management (planning, control etc).
• It is the backbone of the Logistics area which incorporates modules like Sales and Distribution, Production Planning, Plant Maintenance, Project Systems, Warehouse Management which are extremely obsessed on Materials Management module.

Features of SAP MM

The features of SAP MM system are as follows:

• SAP MM is one of the modules of SAP that deals with material management and inventory management.
• Material Management process ensures that there is never a shortage of materials or any gaps in the supply chain process of the organization. SAP MM speeds up the procurement and material management activities making the business run smoother with complete time and cost efficiency.
• It deals with managing the materials (products and or services) resources of an organization with the aim of accelerating productivity, reducing costs and increase improvement and at a similar time be versatile to accommodate changes in day to day life.
• It deals with the Procurement Process, Master Data (Material & Vendor Master), Account Determination & Valuation of Material, Inventory Management, Invoice Verification, Material Requirement Planning etc.

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