Course Overview
Purchasing is a component of the SAP Materials Management (MM) Module. The MM Module automates and integrates the entire range of tasks associated with materials management processes. Purchasing supports the buyer in the acquisition of goods and services, integrating these activities with other components and modules of R/3, such as
FI, SD, CO, PP, PS, etc. In this course you will learn to carry out the most important and most frequent tasks involved in Purchasing.
Learn To:
- Basic Principles and Organization.
- Purchasing in MM.
- Organizational Structures.
- Master Data.
- Purchase Requisition.
- Creating Purchase Requisitions.
- Processing Requisitions.
- Request for Quotation.
- Creating Requests.
- Processing Quotations.
- Evaluating Quotations.
Content Emphasis
Skills-Based
Audience
All personnel involved in materials acquisition processes, ensuring the correct materials and services are purchased at the best time and best price. User Support staff and Project Team members needing to acquire a user perspective of the SAP system are
also targeted. Participants should have a good knowledge of their organization's procedures and standards for materials and inventory management, services acquisition and for general accounting and invoicing. Participants should be confident users of their PC Technology, Windows (or other GUI environments in use at their location). Participants should also have basic competence in navigation through the SAP system, use of help and other SAP services. The following courses provide the education which will ensure most productive study of the course 13174: 12749 SAP R/3 Fundamentals and course 13181 Working with SAP R/3.
Total Learning Time
6 - 9 Hour(s)
Course Contents
Unit 1: Basic Principles and Organization
Unit 1: Basic Principles and Organization
Duration: 2 - 3 Hour(s)
- Purchasing in MM.
- The Procurement Cycle.
- Purchasing in R/3.
- Documents and Functions of Purchasing.
- Organizational Structures.
- The Organizational Elements.
- Organizational Structures of Purchasing.
- Master Data.
- Purchasing Master Data.
- Maintain Material Master Record.
- Maintain Vendor Master Record.
- Purchasing Info Record.
- The Source List.
Unit 2: Purchase Requisition
Duration: 2 - 3 Hour(s)
- Creating Purchase Requisitions.
- Purpose of the Purchase Requisition.
- Creating Purchase Requisitions Manually.
- Entering Item Data.
- Account Assignment.
- Processing Requisitions.
- Release Procedure.
- Assigning Sources of Supply.
Unit 3: Request for Quotation
Duration: 2 - 3 Hour(s)
- Creating Requests.
- Purpose of the Request for Quotation.
- Request for Quotation.
- Processing Quotations.
- Creating Quotations.
- Quotations: Entering Item Data.
- Evaluating Quotations.
- Comparing Quotation.
- Creating Purchasing Info Records.
- Rejecting Quotations.
