SAP Training – Purchasing and Warehousing (WM and MM Modules)
Training participants will become familiar with the principles of managed warehouses and gain knowledge of warehouse administration—including the creation and confirmation of warehouse orders and cancellations. They will learn to work with warehouse management reports and statements. The training also covers inventory management.
WM Module: Warehouse Management
Managed Warehouse
- Structure of a managed warehouse and types of warehouses
- Integration of a managed warehouse into the organisational structure
- Storage locations, stock keeping units, quantities
- Stock placement and removal strategies
- Inventory management, inventory types, transferring inventory to a managed warehouse
- Generating warehouse orders, linking to MM documents, receipts, issues, SD deliveries
- Confirmation and cancellation of warehouse orders
Reporting
- Storage location occupancy
- Empty locations
- Capacity utilization
- Total inventory
- Highly detailed records of individual items at the level of packaging, pieces, batches, etc., and warehouse locations
- Inventory count of stock in the controlled warehouse
IM Module: Inventory Management
- Preparatory activities before starting inventory counts – closing in-progress documents, stock in transit, and in-progress shipping orders
- Manual and batch entry of inventory documents
- Cleaning up inventory maps
- Count results, adjustments, and reports on inventory discrepancies
- Posting of inventory documents
- Cyclical or spot inventory counts
MM Module: Material Management
Inventory Management
- Inventory management processes – material receipts and issues, inventory reclassifications
- Description and management of returns and cancellations
- Procedures for inventory control, overview, analysis, and reporting
- Description of individual inventory types and valuation methods
- Master data and its configuration within the organisational structure
Inventory Count
- Preparatory activities before starting inventory counts – closing open documents, inventory in transit, and open shipping orders
- Manual and batch entry of inventory count documents
- Cleaning up inventory maps
- Count results, adjustments, and reports on inventory discrepancies
- Posting inventory count documents
- Cyclical or spot inventory
Purchasing
- Implementation of the purchasing process from purchase requisitions through the actual purchase order to material receipt and settlement of supplier invoices
- Transfer order
- Payroll processing
- Consignment inventory
- Purchase order authorization
- Purchasing information system
- Reporting to authorities – Intrastat
- Master data – materials, suppliers, supplier information records
- Pricing Terms – purchase prices, markups, discounts
- Processing Incoming Invoices – entry, release for posting, settlement of incidental costs, credit memos, reversals