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S/4 HANA Certification Guide

The document discusses the various procurement processes in SAP S4/HANA including managing sources of supply, purchase contracts, purchase orders, goods receipt, invoice processing, and return management. It also provides an overview of the key innovations in S4/HANA for logistics including simplified data model, increased throughput for MRP and material valuation. S4/HANA offers procurement analytics, self-service requisitioning, and improved contract and supplier management capabilities.

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S/4 HANA Certification Guide

The document discusses the various procurement processes in SAP S4/HANA including managing sources of supply, purchase contracts, purchase orders, goods receipt, invoice processing, and return management. It also provides an overview of the key innovations in S4/HANA for logistics including simplified data model, increased throughput for MRP and material valuation. S4/HANA offers procurement analytics, self-service requisitioning, and improved contract and supplier management capabilities.

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a) Source of Supply Management -

a. Create Purchasing Info record – ME11


b. Manage Source of Supply – ME01/MR31K/ME11 – U can create Source List, Contract,
Info record
c. Manage Purchasing Info Record – ME1L/ME1M/ME1W/ME12
d. Manage RFQs – ME41/ME42/ME43/ME44/ME55
e. Manage Supplier Quotations – ME47
f. Manage Quota Arrangements – MEQ1
g. Manage Source Lists – ME01

b) Purchase Contract Processing


a. Create SA – ME31L
b. Change SA – ME32L
c. Manage SA delivery Schedule – ME38
d. Print SA -
e. Print SA Releases
f. Schedule purchasing Jobs (advance)
g. Manage Purchase Contracts – ME31K
h. Change Purchase Contracts – ME32K
i. Print Purchase Contracts – ME9K

c) Central Master Data – Business Partner (Vendor can be created from Master Data- Supplier
Master also)
a. Maintain Business Partner –
i. Change in BP Role – Bank, Business Partner, Collection Management, Customer,
Financial Services (BP), SAP Credit Management, Service Provider, Supplier
(defined), Supplier (Fin Acct.)
ii. BP type is Vendor Acct Group
iii. Address Overview – Change History, Print Preview, Where used list, Address
Usage (not there in ECC)
iv. Control – BP Type, Notes, Business Hrs details
v. Bank Details – Payment Cards
vi. Status – Active/Block Status (Not in ECC)
vii. Collection Profile (Not in ECC)
viii. Payment Transactions
ix. Vendor General Data –

d) Master Data – Product – (Advance Planning, WM Execution, WM Packaging are new views)
a. Create Material
b. Change Material
c. Display Change Documents
d. Material Price Change – MR21
e. Mass Maintenance Material – MM17
f. Display Material
g. Product Master Create/Change/Display

e) Purchase Requisition Processing –


a. Automatic Creation of Purchase Order – ME59N
b. Display Purchase Requisition – ME5A
c. Assign &Process Purchase Requisition – ME56
d. Create Purchase Order via Purchasing Requisition - Not working
e. Manage Purchase Requisition – Create RFQ / Create Purchase Order – Submit –
Generated PO No.
f. Scheduling Purchasing Jobs (Advanced) –
g. Manage Purchasing Requisition (Professional) – Create/Change/Display PR
h. Display & maintain Purchase Requisition (Advanced) –

f) Purchase Order Processing –


a. Manage Purchase Orders – Change/Display
b. Create Purchase Order – Display existing POs <Click on Create to create>
c. Create Purchase Order (Advanced) – Directly create PO – ME21N
d. Change Purchase Order (Advanced) – ME22N
e. Print Purchase Order – ME9F
f. My Purchase Document Items – Appl. Could not be opened
g. Display Subcontracting Stock by Supplier
h. Display Purchasing Documents by Material – ME2M
i. Display Purchasing Document by Acct. Assignment – ME2K
j. Display Purchasing Document by Supplier – ME2L

g) Warehouse Processing –
a. Material Document Overview – (Reversal option is there)
b. Post Goods Receipt for Purchase Order - MIGO
c. Transfer Stock – In Plant
d. Post Goods Movement – FI Document flow can be seen
e. Output Material documents – Not working
f. Transfer Stock cross-plant – Not working

h) Supplier Invoice Processing –


a. Supplier Invoice List – Not working
b. Schedule Supplier Invoice Job – Advanced
c. Create Supplier Invoice – MIRO
d. Create Supplier Invoice (Advanced) – [Same as MIRO screen in ECC]
e. Display Supplier Invoice (MIR4)
f. Release Blocked Invoices (MRBR)
g. Create Consignment & pipeline settlement – MRKO
h. Display & maintain Account maintenance
i. Clear GR/IR Clearing Account (MR11)
j. Determine Internal Refunds

i) Consolidation & mass processing for Business Partner Data


a. Not working

j) Stock Monitoring
a. Stock – Single Material – MMBE
b. Stock – Multiple Materials – not working

k) Return to Vendor –
a. Create Return Purchase Order
b. My Purchase Order due for Delivery – to create Delivery
c. Change Outbound Delivery – Put Pick Qty & do PGI
d. Display Purchasing Document of Suppliers – Manual Review of Pending credits

SAP S4/HANA –

 Simplified data model


 New user experience
 Advance processing
 Choice of deployment

S4 HANA – On premise

 Full ERP Scope


 Full S4 HANA Finance
 Full S4 HANA Logistics
 Integrates with Success Factor Employee central, Hybris marketing & Ariba
 Industries
 CRM, SRM, SCM co-deployed w/ERP

S4 HANA Cloud Edition

 Key Core scenarios


 Embedded SAP scenarios to extend scope
 Integrates with Success Factor Employee central, Hybris marketing & Ariba
 Industries according to road map

S4 HANA Modules –
 Supply Chain
 Sales
 Sourcing & Procurement
 Manufacturing
 Sustainability
 R&D and Engineering
 Assets Service
 Service

S4/HANA Key Logistics Innovations –

 MRP – Fast MRP Run and new working model for MRP controllers based on decision
support
 IM – Simplified data model resulting in increasing-through-put, flexible analytics at most
granular level
 Material Valuation – Elimination of locking, increased throughput for Std. price utilizing
material ledger, that way customers can use multi currencies, valuation methods for
different accounting laws like GAAP.
 Available to promise & Back order processing – New ATP algorithm based on HANA
embedded in mass component check in production
 Capacity planning – PP/Ds side by side with S4.
 Order management & Billing
 Procurement

Database Tables –

 MATDOC
 ACDOCA

Simplification in Master Data

 Overview
o The redundant tables will still be updated
o Conversion pre-check
o Custom Code tool
 Benefits
o Eliminates Locking
o Multiple currency valuations
o On-the-fly aggregation enabling real time analysis
 Impact
o Custom codes which writes to the redundant tables will need to be modified
o Custom codes which reads redundant tables will work as-is
o Customer shd consider moving to Std price to benefit from the new database
model.
 Purchasing Analysis
o Unused Contracts (last 365 days)
o Contract Expiry (in 120 days)
o Contract Leakage (Last 365 days)
o Invoice Price Variance (last 365 days)
o Overdue Purchase Order items (Last 365 days)
o Purchase Order Value (last 365 days)
o Spend Variance (last 365 days) – Error
o Purchasing Spend (last 365 days) - Error
o Not-managed spent (last 365 days)
o Purchase Order Avg. Delivery weighted – error
o Off-contract spent (last 365 days)
o Purchasing Group activities Purchase Order (in last 365 days)
o Value Contract Consumption (last 365 days)
o Quality Contract consumption (last 365 days)
o Purchasing Requisition Item Types (Last 365 days)
o Purchase Requisition Items (last 365 days) - error
o Purchase Requisition no-touch rate (last 365 days)
o Purchase Avg. approval time (last 365 days)
o Purchase Requisition to Order Cycle time (last 365 days)

 Procurement Overview Page (all for 365 days)


o Contract Monitoring
o Overdue Purchase Order Item
o Off-Contract Spend by Material Group
o Open Activities
o Purchase spend trend
o Purchase spend by Material Group
o Off-contract spent by supplier
o RFQ Monitoring
o Urgent Pr Items Unsourced
o Supplier Evaluation trend
o Purchasing spend by Supplier
o Purchase Requisition Item types (last 365 days)
o Supplier Performance Monitoring
o Non-managed spent by supplier
o Non-managed spend by Material Gorup
o PR touch rate
 Simple Data Model
o Only Main tables remaining, no redundancy
o Clear separation of Master Data from transactional data
o Reduction of Memory footprint
 Principle of one
o Only one Valuation method (Material Ledger) instead of 2 (IM+ML)
o Flexible Rebate Management instead of cumbersome & expensive redundancies
 Throughput increase
o Insert only one Database level (MM-IM), no locks for Std. price valuation.
Procurement Analytics -

Self-service requisitioning -
Invoice Processing -

Operational Contract management

Supplier Information and master data classification & sagement

Supplier Evaluation
A) Source of Supply can also be assigned to PR through any one of the followings: [answer: 4]

 Display Purchase Requisitions


 Display & maintain Purchase Requisitions
 Manage Purchase Requisition (Professional)
 ALL of the above

B) Purchasing Analysis can be done through: [answer: 1 & 2]

 Procurement Overview Page


 Purchasing Analytics
 Manage Purchase Orders
 Display Purchasing Document (by Material)

C) Accounting entries for Material Document can be viewed from: [answer:4]

 Post Goods Movement


 Material Documents Overview
 Manage Purchase Orders
 All of the above
D) Material Documents can be viewed from the following Apps: [answer: 1 & 3]

 Material Documents Overview


 Material Inventory Values
 Manage Stocks
 ALL of the above

E) Material Revaluation can be done through any one of the following: [Answer : 2]

 Set Material Prices


 Material Price Change
 Analyze Material Price
 All of the above

F) Vendor Account Group of ECC has been termed in S4/HANA as: [answer : 3]

 Reference Account Group


 BP Type
 BP Role
 None of the Above

G) Which of the following Material Master Views are new in S4/HANA: [answer :2 & 4]

 Forecasting
 Advance Planning
 Foreign Trade: Import Data
 WM Execution

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