SAP MM Purchasing Simplified for
Beginners
Purchasing basics
Components of MM
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Material Requirements Planning
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Purchasing
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Purchase Order
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Purchase Requisition
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Outline agreement
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RFQ/Quotation
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Master Data
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Inventory management
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Service entry sheet
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Logistics invoice verification
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Material and Service Master
Procurement cycle
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Requirement
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Source determination
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Purchase order
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Delivery
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Invoice verification
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Payment
Purchasing documents
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Purchase requisition
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Outline agreement
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Contract
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Scheduling agreement
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RFQ
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Request for quotation
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Quotation
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Purchase order
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Standard PO
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Release order
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Framework order/blanket PO
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Payment document
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Incoming invoice
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Accounting document
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Material:Goods receipt
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Material document
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Accounting document
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Service:Service Entry Sheet
Organizational units
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Plant
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Storage location
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Purchasing organization
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Plant level
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Company level
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Enterprise level
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Purchasing group
Master data
o Vendor
master (General data, Company code data and Purchasing organization data)
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Create vendor master (MK01)
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Extend and block vendor master (MK01, MK05)
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Purchasing list (MKVZ)
o Material
master (Display and extent material master MM03 and MM01, Maintain purchasing
information record ME11, ME12, Create Materials List MM60)
o Service
master (Maintain service master AC03 and service conditions ML33)
Purchase processing
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ME51N – Create standard purchase requisition
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ME52N – Process purchase requisition
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ME21N – Convert PR into Purchase order
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ME21N – Create purchase order and ME9F
Print/Transmit
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ME22N – Record order acknowledgement
More purchase processing:
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ME41 - Create request for quotation
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ME47 – Maintain quotations
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ME49 – Price comparison
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Process chain with quantity contract
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Value contract ME31K and scheduling agreement
ME33L
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ME21N PO - Release order for services
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ME21N – Create Blanket PO
Source determination search order
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Quota arrangement
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Source list
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Outline agreement
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Info record
ME01N – Maintain source list
MEQ3 – Display quota arrangement
Special procurement types
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Consignment (K)
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Subcontracting (L)
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Third-party processing (S)
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Stock transfer (U)
Process chain
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Contracts
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Value contracts ME31KN
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Quantity contracts
Blanket POS
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No release order
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No Goods receipt
Goods used for direct consumption and services require
controlling objects. This is called an auxiliary account assignment
Special procurement type
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Consignment
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Subcontracting
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Third-party processing
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Stock transfer
Standard procurement
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External company
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Existing product
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Ownership upon delivery
Consignment
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External company
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Existing product
Subcontracting
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External company
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Ownership upon delivery
Third-party processing
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External company
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Existing product
Stock transfer
Other SAP solutions for procurement
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SAP SCM (Supply Chain Management)
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SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
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SAP Ariba
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SAP Fieldglass
