SAP Concepts: SAP MM Explained: The Materials Engine

SAP MM Explained: The Materials Engine

Module 2 of 5 in the SAP Concepts Season 2 deep-dive. MM — Materials Management — the module that tracks every physical good a business buys, stores, moves, consumes, or sells, and translates each of those events into the financial postings FI then records.

What you will learn

• What MM is for — the four questions: inventory, valuation, incoming, outgoing
• The Material Master — the most-edited record in any SAP system; views (basic data, MRP, purchasing, sales, plant, accounting, costing)
• Procure-to-Pay refresher — PR → PO → GR → IR, with vendor master now sitting under Business Partner in S/4
• Movement types — the three-digit verbs of inventory: 101 (GR for PO), 261 (GI to production), 311 (transfer), 601 (GI for delivery)
• Valuation — Moving Average Price (MAP, V) vs Standard Price (S); Material Ledger always-on in S/4HANA
• MRP — the planning engine; ECC overnight batch vs S/4 MRP Live in HANA
• The Fiori star screen — Manage Material, with drill-down across movements, plants, and vendors
• What we're not covering — info records, source lists, release strategies, batch management, serial numbers, EWM

Key takeaways

Watch the video above for the full walkthrough — eight-minute presentation-style explainer, no transaction codes or config screens.