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The document provides an overview of the SAP MM (Materials Management) module. It discusses the main components of MM which are master data, purchasing, and inventory management. It also briefly describes sub-components like material master data, customer master data, vendor master data, pricing and conditions master data, and warehouse management master data. Transactions are used to process information to complete business processes in SAP. The document then provides more details on master data, purchasing, inventory management, and pricing procedures in SAP MM.

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Overview of SAP MM Module PDF

The document provides an overview of the SAP MM (Materials Management) module. It discusses the main components of MM which are master data, purchasing, and inventory management. It also briefly describes sub-components like material master data, customer master data, vendor master data, pricing and conditions master data, and warehouse management master data. Transactions are used to process information to complete business processes in SAP. The document then provides more details on master data, purchasing, inventory management, and pricing procedures in SAP MM.

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Overview of SAP MM module


Materials Management module in SAP consists of
several components and sub-components. The
most prominent and widely used are Master Data,
Purchasing and Inventory.

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All of these components have their subcomponents that are essential in specific business
processes, and all of the processes are executed by using transactions.

Transaction (in SAP) means processing of certain information in order to complete business
process requirement. For example, if you have purchased 10 pieces of litter buckets, you can
perform particular transaction code (t-code) that will reflect those changes in SAP. Most of
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the business processes involve multiple SAP transactions to be accomplished and are
spread over one, two or more modules.

Let’s briefly talk about the various sub-modules in SAP MM

Master Data
Data stored in SAP R/3 is categorized as

1. Master Data and


2. Transactional Data.

Master data is the core data that is used as a base for any transaction. If you are producing,
transferring stock, selling, purchasing, doing a physical inventory, whatever your activity
may be, it requires certain master data to be maintained.
Example of Master Data

Material master data


Customer master data
Vendor master data
Pricing/conditions master data
Warehouse management master data (storage bin master data)

Learn more about Master Data here (/introduction-to-master-data.html)

Purchasing
Purchasing is a component of SAP MM module, and its process can be roughly depicted in
below diagram.

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MRP (material resource planning) creates procurement proposal and later gets converted
into Purchase Requisition. Next step is assigning a source to Purchase Requisition, and
release of Purchase Requisition. The PR gets converted to Purchase Order, and upon goods
receipt, an invoice receipt can be done to complete the purchasing process. Additionally,
payment is processed (in FI module).
Learn more about Purchasing here (/introduction-to-purchasing-and-purhase-
requisition.html)

Inventory Management
Inventory management is used to manage the inventory of the goods. It is based on several
key processes like

Definition of movement types


Reservations
Goods issue
Goods receipt

There are a number of functions and transactions used in the Inventory management
processes.

Learn more about Inventory Management here (/overview-of-inventory-management.html)

Pricing Procedure
Pricing procedure in MM module is a way to determine prices in purchasing documents. It
gives us functionality to assign different calculation types for different needs. Defining a
pricing procedure can be done by creating an access sequence, and assigning it to condition
types. Access sequence tells the system where to look for the condition values.

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Learn more about Pricing Procedure here (/overview-of-pricing-procedure.html)

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