Organizational Structure
In Materials following organizational units are relevant:
• Client - represents the company or the group
• Company Code - the balance sheet legally independent unit (eg individual Ltd.)
• Purchasing Organization - responsible for the procurement
Note purchasing organizations can:
• Precisely responsible for the work (for example EK-Org1 for plant 1),
• across plants for each company code to be active (eg, EK Org2 for plant 2 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
• circular cross or accounting for all plants to be active (eg, EK Org3, similar to a central purchasing).
• Work - the predisposing and leading stock unit
• location - can so that material stocks within a plant contained lead
Recommended storage locations are assigned to a work, so can the number assignment (eg, location 1) occur more than once. Business processes and functions of R / 3 MM SAP R / 3 covers all functions of Materials Management: from MRP about purchasing to audit.
• Materials planning
In the so-called consumption-based planning procurement proposals are based on predefined purchase decisions (eg, falling below the safety stock), or determined by forecasting calculations. The identified needs will be saved as default. These proposals either be assigned as the responsible purchasing requisitions or given as a planned order to production (PP). Additional Requirements can be captured as a manual purchase requisition.
• Shopping
These requisitions are now from shopping in order or be implemented under contracts. In the purchase process will be distinguish whether orders can be made immediately (due to existing agreements such as for example Contracts) or whether it offers must be obtained by means of queries. Procurement is therefore for responsible for a variety of tasks: dealing with inquiries and quotations, supplier selection, order processing, vendor evaluation etc.
Note A framework is a long-term agreement with a suppliers for the supply of services or materials at fixed rates. A distinction of quantity or value of contracts as contracts and delivery schedules.
• Inventory Management
Inventory management has the task of volume, stocks and value to collect timely and accounting for. These include all operations, which the stock of goods change, e.g. Goods receipts and outputs, transfers and stock transfers as well as material reservations and return deliveries. The quantities are in every material movement
updated. The value update is normally done an automatic account determination. The system provides hands - Help if for example a goods receipt (GR) with respect to an order to be posted. Here, all relevant data from the system provided.
• Warehouse Management
With the warehouse management system warehouse complex structures can be established and monitored. Different methods are of imports and outsourcing support. In WM be leading stock processes such as goods receipts, stock transfers so depicted.
• Audit
The audit represents the link between the Materials Management and accounting (FI) Here. Received bills can the reference to a goods receipt (GR), or an order, have fast tracked, checked and then posted. Furthermore be using information from the material master.
Further Settlement depends on several assumptions:
• match the billing data with pre-planned data, Bookings are done automatically and the invoice is released for payment,
• for exceeding specified tolerances, the invoice is for payment blocked
• A further possibility is the invoice automatically can be created for goods receipt.
Another important issue is the procurement of marketing. By this is meant that the company has the task of building and care of (possible) long-term relationships with reliable suppliers guarantee supply. Basis for effective cooperation between companies is the advantage that for both partners, So customers and supplier, and is desired by both objective and is. Right here mySAP SRM plays off his strengths. |
