SAP MM (Material Management) is one of the premier functional modules of SAP ERP, managing business processes relating to materials, procurement, inventory management, vendor evaluation, and invoice verification. In every enterprise, efficient material handling is critical to operational success, making SAP MM consultants consistently in demand.

At Nidhi Technologies Hyderabad, our comprehensive 60-hour training is led by 20+ year experienced industry trainers. We cover end-to-end purchasing cycles, inventory control, integration with SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) and Financial Accounting (FI), and provide dedicated SAP MM Live Project Training. We also offer specialized coaching in S4 HANA MM and SAP Retail.

Surya Vangara

Uniqueness comes with experience and knowledge of the faculty, Surya, who is a popular trainer in SAP MM at Nidhi Technologies. Having vast industry experience, he offers extraordinary coaching for SAP MM trainees. He has 20 years of experience in SAP training with 20 years exclusively in SAP SD / MM / RETAIL training. He is the best choice for job aspirants seeking rewarding careers in SAP Material Management, procurement, and inventory control.

He did Five S4 HANA Implementations and One HANA Support Project. His practical approach helps students gain real-time experience with procurement lifecycles, vendor evaluations, and master data configurations. Every student and job aspirant is special for Surya since he always gives tailor-made training based on their understanding and level of grasping the subject. They may attend for either SAP certification or securing high-growth consulting jobs.

Surya explains that SAP MM (Material Management) is the critical logistics module managing purchasing, material requirement planning, goods receipts, storage location management, and invoice verification. Reporting in SAP MM delivers complete visibility across enterprise supply chains.

He advises students to choose SAP MM at Nidhi Technologies to build a successful career, gaining thorough practical confidence in procurement workflows, pricing schemas, and integration with SD and FI modules.

SAP MM Course Content

Course Duration- 60 hr

Introduction to ERP and SAP® MM

What is ERP and SAP® MM
Purpose for SAP® and ERP
Different modules in SAP®
Role of a SAP® MM Consultant

Overview of Procurement Process

Describe the various external procurement processes
List the organizational levels relevant for the procurement process in the SAP® MM system
Explain the relationships between these organizational levels
Name various documents to which you can make reference when creating a purchase order
Name the most important elements of a purchase order
Enter and issue a simple purchase order
Explain the most important effects of a goods receipt against a purchase order
Enter a simple good receipt with reference to a purchase order
Name the most important elements of a material document
Name the most important information in an invoice
Carry out a simple invoice verification process with reference to a purchase order
Explain the most important effects of entering an invoice against a purchase order

Master Data

Explain the significance of vendor master records
Create and maintain vendor master records
Name the organizational levels that are important for the maintenance of vendor master record
Explain the significance of material master records
Create and maintain material master record
Name the organizational levels that are important for the maintenance of material master records
List the different entry aids for the maintenance of the vendor and material master record
Outline the creation of a vendor master record with reference
Create a material master record with reference material
Use collective entry for storage location data in material master record
Name the objects that can be processed using the mass maintenance function
Outline the flow of mass maintenance

Procurement of Stock Material

Name the documents and master data on which conditions are used
Explain the difference between time-dependent and time-independent conditions
Create several RFQs for an RFQ activity
Enter the incoming quotations for your RFQs
Execute a price comparison for your quotations
Use the document overview on transaction ME21N
Create purchase orders by referencing to RFQs
List the organizational levels relevant for purchasing info records
List the ways in which purchasing info records can be created
Maintain a purchasing info record
Explain the significance of the valuation area
Describe the function of the valuation area
Describe the function of a valuation class
Explain material valuation with the moving average price
Explain material valuation with standard price
Display the stock overview
List the stock types
Enter a goods receipt in the quality inspection stock
List the documents created during goods movements posting and explain their meaning
Analyze the postings during goods movements posting and explain their meaning
Enter an invoice with unplanned delivery costs in Logistics Invoice Verification
Display the accounting document for an invoice
Explain the postings in the invoice

Procurement of Consumable Material

List the differences between the procurement of consumable materials and that of stock materials.
Explain the meaning of the account assignment category
Use transaction ME51N for purchase requisitions
Create a purchase requisition with items with single and multiple account assignments
Request a material without a material master record
Create a purchase order with reference to a purchase requisition with account assignment
Enter an order acknowledgement for a purchase order
Explain the difference between a valuated and a non-valuated goods receipt
Explain the postings result from a non-valuated goods receipt during invoice entry
Explain the purpose of the item category in purchasing documents
Explain the special aspects of procuring materials using a blanket purchase order
Create a blanket purchase order
Enter invoices with reference to a blanket purchase order with Logistics Invoice Verification

Procurement of External Services

Name the most important master data used in the procurement of external services
Describe and handle the basic procurement process for services
Display a service master record and service conditions
Explain the structure of the purchase order item for services
Create a purchase order item for services
Create a service entry sheet referencing a purchase order
Add unplanned services during the service entry process
Accept a service entry sheet
Check the invoice for a service purchase order

Reporting and Analysis Functions

Use standard reports and analyses in purchasing
Search for a material documents using the material document list
Display a list of your manually created invoices
Name the most important functions of the SAP® List Viewer and the SAP® Grid Control
Describe the basic features of the Logistics Information System
Perform standard analyses in the Logistics Information System

Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

Describe the overall process of MRP
Name the planning levels in consumption based planning
Describe the prerequisites for executing consumption-based planning
Differentiate between consumption-based planning and Material requirement planning (MRP)
Name the MRP procedures of consumption-based planning
Define MRP types in the system
Create material master records and explain the MRP data
Describe the function of a MRP profile and create own MRP profiles
Explain the meaning of the material status
Explain the principle of reorder point planning and its process
Describe the meaning of the reorder point and safety stock
Comprehend net requirement calculation for materials planned with reorder point planning
Explain how materials planned with reorder point planning are scheduled
Name the different options for a planning run
Describe the planning file and explain its functions
Describe the individual sub-processes of a planning run
Explain the meaning of the low-level code
Name the different control parameters for MRP
Differentiate between the different planning process types and creation indicators for the requirement planning run
Execute requirement planning
Describe the structure of the MRP lists
Name the ways of converting a planned order
Explain the differences between the MRP list and the current stock/requirements list
Describe the differences between the individual and collective lists
Use the various functions for evaluating the planning result
Make the most important customizing settings for evaluations
Explain the different static and period lot-sizing procedures
Describe additional restrictions for the lot size

Source of Supply

Distinguish between and create purchasing info records with and without material master records
Distinguish between and create cross-plant and plant-specific purchasing info records
Create and change conditions in the purchasing info records
Explain the function of the buyer’s negotiation sheet
Distinguish between different forms for contract
Create centrally-agreed contracts and plant contracts
Differentiate between and use item categories M and W in contracts
Create contract release orders for different types of contract item
Enumerate the advantages of using scheduling agreements
Differentiate between the various types of scheduling agreement
Create scheduling agreements, maintain scheduling agreement schedule lines and generate scheduling agreement releases
Describe the functions of the release creation profile
Distinguish between forecast and JIT delivery schedules

Source Determination

Describe the various ways of creating source list records
Describe the various uses of sourcing control with the source list
Control the source determination process with the aid of the source list
Create the quota arrangement for a material
Describe how the source determination process can be controlled with the aid of quota arrangement
Demonstrate automatic supply source determination when manually creating purchase requisitions
Explain automatic supply source determination in the planning run
List the possibilities for blocking vendors and supply sources in Purchasing
Explain the use of the regular vendor

Optimized Purchasing and Invoicing Plan

Automatically assign non-assigned requisitions to source using a collective transaction and convert them into POs and SA delivery schedule lines
Convert purchase requisitions items without defined sources of supply into requests for quotations
Convert assigned purchase requisitions into POs and scheduling agreement items using collective transactions
Convert purchase requisitions into purchase orders automatically
Explain the significance of user parameters EVO and EFB
Name the available options for controlling the use of the info update indicator
Set up system messages in purchasing
Monitor order confirmations
Expedite purchasing documents
Make the settings for confirmation control
Differentiate between periodic and partial invoicing plans
Create periodic and partial invoicing plans
Carry out the automatic settlement of invoicing plan items

Document Release Procedure

Describe the function of and steps in a release procedure
Release requisitions and purchase orders
Create release strategies in customizing

Invoice Entry

Enter an invoice referencing a purchase order
Post a simple invoice
List the special features of goods-receipt-based invoice verification
Hold or park an invoice
Specify which updates take place during document parking
Process a parked document further
Explain the most important attributes of prepayment
Enter or change tax information
Enter or change cash discount information
Post both gross or net of cash discounts
Enter invoices in a foreign currency
Enter invoices for a purchase order with account assignment and change the planned account assignments
Enter invoices relating to a blanket purchase order
Trace the resulting account movements

Variances and Invoice Blocks

Enter invoices with variances and explain the circumstances under which the system blocks invoices
Compare the postings for standard and moving average priced stock materials
Reduce invoices by posting an invoice and a credit memo at the same time
Identify which account movements are made when you reduce invoices
Post invoices when there is a variance between the expected total amount of the purchase order items and the actual invoice amount
Reduce invoices in Logistics Invoice Verification without reference to an item
Release invoices manually at item or header level
Release an invoice automatically

Subsequent Debits, Delivery Costs and Credit Memos

Enter additional costs as a subsequent debit
Explain the account movements made in the case of a subsequent debit
Enter planned delivery costs for an invoice
Enter unplanned delivery costs so that they are apportioned to the items
Add items without reference to a purchase order to an invoice
Enter an invoice without reference to a purchase order
Enter a credit memo referencing a purchase order
Reverse an invoice document
Enter a subsequent credit

GR/IR Account Maintenance

Perform GR/IR Account Maintenance

Introduction to Inventory Management

Explain how inventory management and physical inventory are integrated into SAP® ERP
Describe the functions of inventory management and physical inventory
Name the screen areas of the single-screen transaction for goods movements
Navigate in the single-screen transaction for the goods movements
Post a goods receipt with reference to a reference document
Explain the account movements during the posting
List the effects of a goods movement

Good Receipt

Describe the procedure for the initial entry of stock balances in the SAP® system
Enter a goods receipt without a purchase or production order
Explain the special features for entering a free-of-charge delivery
Enter a goods receipt with reference to a PO or production order into unrestricted-use stock, stock in quality inspection or blocked stock
Describe the process of receiving goods in GR blocked stock and its special aspects
List the necessary settings for the automatic generation of purchase orders at the time of goods receipt
Enter a return delivery for a goods receipt (GR)
Enter a subsequent delivery
Create a purchase order with a return item and post the goods issue
Describe how a goods movement posting is reversed
Enter a goods receipt for a purchase order with one of the order price units that varies from the order unit
Manually set the delivery completed indicator during goods receipt entry
Explain the circumstances in which the Final delivery indicator is automatically set when posting a goods receipt
List the prerequisites for the shelf life expiration date check
Enter a goods receipt and enter and check the shelf expiration date
Activate the check for the latest possible goods receipt date
Stock Transfer and Transfer Postings
Describe the procedure for a stock-to-stock transfer posting
List the prerequisites for a material-to-material transfer posting and make this type of posting
Distinguish between the one-step and two-step procedures for stock transfers
Demonstrate the entry of a stock transfer from storage location to storage location
Carry out a stock transfer between plants of a company code using the one-step and two-step procedures
Create a stock transport order
Carry out a stock transfer with reference to a stock transport order using the two-step procedure

Reservations

Explain the structures of a reservation and the information it contains
Create a reservation manually, with and without a reference
Change the data in a reservation
Enter a goods movement with reference to a reservation
Determine whether reservations exist for a cost center
Name the functions of the picking list for reservations

Goods Issue

Enter goods issues without reference to another document
Use a bill of material as a template for a goods issue
Explain the differences between a withdrawal for a random sample or scrapping and a withdrawal for a cost center
Enter a goods issue with reference to a reservation
Enter a goods issue with reference to a production order
Explain the difference between planned and unplanned goods issues

Special Procurement

Explain the procurement process with subcontracting
Provide the components required for subcontracting to the sub-contractor
Post a goods receipt (GR) for a subcontract order and explain the effects
Explain the procurement process with consignment
List the settings relevant for vendor consignment
Post goods movements for consignment stock
Settle consignment withdrawals
Display a consignment stock

Physical Inventory

Make preparations for physical inventory
Create PI documents, enter count results and post differences
Describe the performance of the physical inventory
Describe the postings for the physical inventory
Combine steps in the physical inventory
Explain the process of physical inventory with batch input sessions
Create and run a batch input session

Inventory Reporting and Analysis Functions

Use different lists to analyze stock
Analyze documents created during goods movements
List the customizing settings for reporting in Inventory Management
Specify the evaluations in Inventory Management that are to be executed regularly
Explain the purpose of the periodic evaluations

Customizing of Inventory Management

Explain the number assignment settings for accounting documents
Describe the number assignment settings for material and physical inventory documents
Describe the number assignment settings for reservations
List the control functions of the movement type
Define a new movement type
Explain how plant parameters are used
Outline the customizing settings for transaction MIGO

Customizing for Purchasing

Make the necessary settings for the vendor master record
Create new document types for purchase requisitions and purchasing documents
Describe the factors that influence the screen layout for purchasing documents and adjust the field selection for the purchase transactions
Create a new account assignment category

Message Determination

Describe the message determination process for purchase transactions
Specify the details relating to message/output determination in inventory management

Organizational Levels in MM

Identify the relationships between the organizational levels of MM and their environment
Explain the significance of the purchasing organization and the reference purchasing organization
Create a plant and storage locations with several addresses
Use the plant copy and check functions

Master Data for Materials Management

Create new material type
Set up material number assignment
Determine the field selection control and name its influencing factors

Valuation and Account Assignment

List the various factors influencing automatic account determination
Explain simple accounting transactions from inventory management and invoice verification
Determine the chart of accounts used in your company code
Name the conditions enabling a plant-specific assignment of G/L accounts
Explain the significance of the valuation grouping code
Implement account determination for new plants
Outline the relationship between the material master record and the account determination process
Take the account determination process into consideration when defining new material types
Explain what a value string is and how it is determined for goods movements
Set up and verify the account determination process for individual transactions
Explain the significance of the account grouping code
Name the dependencies for a default account in purchasing
Assign the accounts for planned delivery costs
Name the dependencies for input tax accounts
Specify examples for using split valuation
Understand the customizing settings for split valuation
Create a material with split valuation
Outline the procurement process for a material subject to split valuation

SAP® MM Tables Ovewview

User Exits

SD-MM Integration

MM-PP Integration

MM-FI Integration

SAP MM Live Project Training

Water fall Implementation / Agile Implementation

Consulting World

SAP Implementation process
Difference between Clients and Implementers?
Role of a Functional and Business consultant?
What happens once the Implementation is done

Project Preparation

Understand the project & client org structure
Building the Project Team
SAP Landscape System
Understanding the client stake holders
Preparing and conducting level 1 training
Preparation of BPD’s

Blue Print

Discussion of Business Process
Conducting level2 training
Defining Organizational elements
Work shop on Business process requirements (B.P.R), Accelerators of SAP, QADS and CI template (customer Interface template).
Finalizing general requirements like Reports, Forms, Interfaces and Enhancements.
Mapping into sap
Gap Analysis
Addressing of Gaps
Authorization matrix
Execution on RICEFW
Authorization mapping of user rolls, Building the blue print and getting sign off

Realization

Level 3 training to users
Base line configuration
Transport Management System
Unit test and Test script preparation
Final configuration and confirmation
Scenario and integration test with test scripts
Data templates preparation
Cycle 1N work shop
End-user document preparation

Final Preparation

Finalization of Cutover plan
Collection of cutover data, master data, uploading the data and validations
Core users conducting end user training
Integration Testing
User training Aspects
User Acceptance Test (UAT)
Readiness and sign off for Go live
Final approval

Go-Live

Discussions on various scenarios with respect to individual module
Handling over the Project
Establishing a help desk
Support plan
Resume building

Practice Projects

Over view on Real time functionality in MM.
Demonstrate navigational & transactional skills
Implement configuration for several business processes
Setup Master data for several business processes
Analyze the issue and fix the problem in configuration & Master data
Setup transactional data to complete a business process

Support Project/Ticketing Tool

Work on ticketing tool
Priority of tickets and Resolution

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