Inventory Management with SAP S/4HANA - The Comprehensive Guide

Jump-start your inventory operations in SAP S/4HANA! Review basic inventory practices and consult step-by-step instructions to configure SAP S/4HANA for your organization's requirements. Then put the system to work! Run the SAP Fiori applications that guide your core inventory workflows: inventory planning, goods receipt, core inventory, production planning, and inventory analysis. This hands-on guide to inventory has the details you need!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. Inventory Planning
Set up a successful inventory management system. Understand how to implement key planning strategies like make-to-order, make-to-stock, MRP Live, and Kanban in your SAP S/4HANA system.

b. Inventory Execution
Ensure your system runs smoothly. Tap into the potential of SAP Fiori applications and execute core inventory processes such as exception handling, physical inventory, transfers, and more.

c. Inventory Analysis
Make the most of your inventory analytics tools. See what's offered with SAP S/4HANA, such as real-time data and role-based design; then dive in to CDS views, KPI monitoring, custom queries, and more.

Highlights Include:
1) Inventory optimization
2) Inventory planning
3) Goods receipt
4) Core inventory
5) Production planning
6) Inventory analysis
7) Configuration
8) Deployment
9) SAP Fiori applications

List of contents

... Preface ... 15

... Who This Book Is For ... 16

... How This Book Is Organized ... 17

... Acknowledgments ... 19

... Conclusion ... 20

1 ... Introduction to SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori ... 21

1.1 ... SAP HANA Database ... 22

1.2 ... A New Data Model ... 29

1.3 ... Functional Changes ... 37

1.4 ... SAP Fiori ... 38

1.5 ... Summary ... 64

2 ... Inventory Management Basics ... 65

2.1 ... Inventory as a Staple of the Supply Chain ... 65

2.2 ... End-User Role Templates ... 68

2.3 ... Key Considerations ... 69

2.4 ... Inventory Optimization in SAP S/4HANA ... 79

2.5 ... Summary ... 85

3 ... Configuring Inventory Management ... 87

3.1 ... Implementation Guide Configuration ... 87

3.2 ... Cross Functions ... 125

3.3 ... Servers ... 143

3.4 ... Basic Interfaces ... 147

3.5 ... SAP Fiori ... 148

3.6 ... Summary ... 155

4 ... Planning and Adjusting Inventory ... 157

4.1 ... Planning Strategies ... 158

4.2 ... Production Master Data Overview ... 165

4.3 ... MRP Overview ... 167

4.4 ... Kanban Overview ... 173

4.5 ... Capacity Planning and Production Master Data ... 174

4.6 ... Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock ... 182

4.7 ... MRP Live ... 186

4.8 ... DDMRP ... 221

4.9 ... Kanban ... 248

4.10 ... What's Ahead for Inventory Planning and Adjustment? ... 255

4.11 ... Summary ... 262

5 ... Goods Receipt ... 263

5.1 ... Purchase Order ... 263

5.2 ... Inbound Delivery ... 272

5.3 ... Production Order ... 274

5.4 ... Goods Receipt without Reference ... 275

5.5 ... Process Variants ... 277

5.6 ... What's Ahead for Goods Receipt? ... 285

5.7 ... Summary ... 285

6 ... Core Inventory Management ... 287

6.1 ... Monitoring Core Inventory Documents ... 288

6.2 ... Stock Identification ... 298

6.3 ... Stock Transfer ... 309

6.4 ... Initial Entry and Scrapping ... 321

6.5 ... Reversals ... 325

6.6 ... Physical Inventory ... 327

6.7 ... What's Ahead for Core Inventory? ... 337

6.8 ... Summary ... 338

7 ... Production Execution ... 339

7.1 ... Working with Reservations ... 340

7.2 ... Scheduling and Manufacturing Execution ... 345

7.3 ... Production Performance Monitoring ... 372

7.4 ... Working with Kanban ... 380

7.5 ... What's Ahead for Production Execution? ... 389

7.6 ... Summary ... 392

8 ... Inventory Analysis ... 395

8.1 ... Inventory Analytics in SAP S/4HANA ... 396

8.2 ... Posted Stock Change Analysis ... 398

8.3 ... Key Performance Indicator Monitoring and Analysis ... 404

8.4 ... Process Analysis Tools ... 419

8.5 ... Custom Queries ... 428

8.6 ... What's Ahead for Analytics? ... 433

8.7 ... Summary ... 437

9 ... Inventory Management in the Cloud ... 439

9.1 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 440

9.2 ... Hybrid Deployment ... 453

9.3 ... SAP Cloud Solutions ... 460

9.4 ... Summary ... 478

... The Authors ... 479

... Index ... 481

About the author

Bernd Roedel is chief development architect within a central architecture team in the area ofcore logistics, where he has supported SAP S/4HANA development for the last two years. He joined SAP in 2000 and worked as a developer and an architect for sustainability management, human resources, supply chain management, and inventory management projects. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology, a master’s degree in computer science, and a PhD in natural science.Johannes Esser joined SAP in 2002 and is an experienced project management expert in SAP development and a certified Scrum master. He has completed a broad range of projects across sustainability management, supply chain management, and inventory management, with a focus on cloud mindset and agile software engineering. He has a bachelor’s degree in business informatics.

Summary

Jump-start your inventory operations in SAP S/4HANA! Review basic inventory practices and consult step-by-step instructions to configure SAP S/4HANA for your organization’s requirements. Then put the system to work! Run the SAP Fiori applications that guide your core inventory workflows: inventory planning, goods receipt, core inventory, production planning, and inventory analysis. This hands-on guide to inventory has the details you need!

In this book, you’ll learn about:

a. Inventory Planning
Set up a successful inventory management system. Understand how to implement key planning strategies like make-to-order, make-to-stock, MRP Live, and Kanban in your SAP S/4HANA system.

b. Inventory Execution
Ensure your system runs smoothly. Tap into the potential of SAP Fiori applications and execute core inventory processes such as exception handling, physical inventory, transfers, and more.

c. Inventory Analysis
Make the most of your inventory analytics tools. See what’s offered with SAP S/4HANA, such as real-time data and role-based design; then dive in to CDS views, KPI monitoring, custom queries, and more.

Highlights Include:
1) Inventory optimization
2) Inventory planning
3) Goods receipt
4) Core inventory
5) Production planning
6) Inventory analysis
7) Configuration
8) Deployment
9) SAP Fiori applications

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Esser, Bern Roedel, Bernd Roedel
• Publisher: Rheinwerk Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2019
• EAN: 9781493218455
• ISBN: 978-1-4932-1845-5
• No. of pages: 494
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 236 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 1046 g
• Series: SAP PRESS Englisch; SAP Press; SAP PRESS Englisch
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Informatik, SAP S4/HANA, SAP S4 HANA, SAP S4HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Simple Logistics, SAP Inventory Management (SAP IM)