Inventory Management with SAP S/4HANA

Are you ready to manage inventory in SAP S/4HANA? Get the instructions you need in this comprehensive guide. Start by configuring inventory-specific and cross-functional settings to suit your business needs. Then use SAP Fiori apps to plan and adjust your inventory, execute core inventory and production processes, and analyze your results. Optimize your workflow with machine learning capabilities, explore real-world scenarios, and more with this hands-on resource!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. Configuration
Set up inventory management in your SAP S/4HANA system. Follow click-by-click instructions to configure inventory settings in procurement, logistics execution, production planning, stock transport, and more.

b. Planning, Execution, and Analysis
Master the inventory optimization cycle. Design planning strategies, perform goods receipt, and execute key processes such as stock transfer posting, physical inventory, and production. Use analytics tools to assess important KPIs.

c. Your Inventory Landscape
See how to handle inventory management in on-premise, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. Work with the latest cloud solutions, from SAP IBP to SAP Business Technology Platform to SAP Datasphere.

Highlights include:

1) Inventory optimization
2) Inventory planning
3) Goods receipt
4) Stock identification and transfer
5) Physical inventory
6) Production execution
7) Inventory analysis
8) Configuration
9) Best practices
10) Real-world scenarios

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 ... 27

1.3 ... Functional Changes ... 35

1.4 ... SAP Fiori ... 36

1.5 ... Summary ... 56

2 ... Inventory Management Basics ... 57

2.1 ... Inventory as a Staple of the Supply Chain ... 57

2.2 ... End User Role Templates ... 60

2.3 ... Key Considerations ... 61

2.4 ... Inventory Optimization in SAP S/4HANA ... 75

2.5 ... Summary ... 80

3 ... Configuring Inventory Management ... 81

3.1 ... Implementation Guide Configuration ... 81

3.2 ... Cross-Topics ... 122

3.3 ... Generic Cross-Functions ... 127

3.4 ... Servers ... 152

3.5 ... Basic Interfaces ... 156

3.6 ... SAP Fiori ... 158

3.7 ... Summary ... 164

4 ... Planning and Adjusting Inventory ... 165

4.1 ... Planning Strategies ... 166

4.2 ... Production Master Data Overview ... 172

4.3 ... MRP Overview ... 173

4.4 ... Kanban Overview ... 178

4.5 ... Capacity Planning and Production Master Data ... 179

4.6 ... Make to Order and Make to Stock ... 187

4.7 ... MRP Live ... 190

4.8 ... DDMRP ... 219

4.9 ... Kanban ... 240

4.10 ... What's Ahead for Inventory Planning and Adjustment? ... 246

4.11 ... Summary ... 252

5 ... Goods Receipt ... 253

5.1 ... Purchase Order ... 253

5.2 ... Inbound Delivery ... 261

5.3 ... Production Order ... 262

5.4 ... Goods Receipt without Reference ... 263

5.5 ... Post Subsequent Adjustment ... 265

5.6 ... Process Variants ... 265

5.7 ... Real World Scenarios and Best Practices ... 274

5.8 ... What's Ahead for Goods Receipt? ... 276

5.9 ... Summary ... 277

6 ... Core Inventory Management ... 279

6.1 ... Monitoring Core Inventory Documents ... 279

6.2 ... Stock Identification ... 288

6.3 ... Stock Transfer ... 298

6.4 ... Initial Entry and Scrapping ... 308

6.5 ... Reversals ... 314

6.6 ... Physical Inventory ... 315

6.7 ... Cross-Topics ... 328

6.8 ... Real-World Scenarios and Best Practices ... 331

6.9 ... What's Ahead for Core Inventory? ... 338

6.10 ... Summary ... 338

7 ... Production Execution ... 339

7.1 ... Working with Reservations ... 340

7.2 ... Scheduling and Manufacturing Execution ... 344

7.3 ... Production Performance Monitoring ... 366

7.4 ... Working with Kanban ... 372

7.5 ... What's Ahead for Production Execution? ... 380

7.6 ... Summary ... 381

8 ... Inventory Analysis ... 383

8.1 ... Inventory Analytics in SAP S/4HANA ... 383

8.2 ... Posted Stock Change Analysis ... 385

8.3 ... KPI Monitoring and Analysis ... 397

8.4 ... Process Analysis Tools ... 410

8.5 ... Custom Queries ... 417

8.6 ... Real-World Scenarios and Best Practices ... 422

8.7 ... What's Ahead for Analytics? ... 426

8.8 ... Summary ... 429

9 ... Inventory Management in SAP Business Suite ... 431

9.1 ... Extensibility ... 432

9.2 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 441

9.3 ... Hybrid Deployment ... 452

9.4 ... Cloud Solutions ... 457

9.5 ... Summary ... 462

... The Authors ... 463

... Index ... 465

About the author

Bernd Roedel is chief development architect within a central architecture team in the area of supply chain management (SCM) core logistics, where he has supported SAP S/4HANA development for the last ten 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 diploma in human biology, a master’s degree in computer science, and a PhD in natural science.Johannes Esser joined SAP in 2002 and is development manager 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.

Summary

Are you ready to manage inventory in SAP S/4HANA? Get the instructions you need in this comprehensive guide. Start by configuring inventory-specific and cross-functional settings to suit your business needs. Then use SAP Fiori apps to plan and adjust your inventory, execute core inventory and production processes, and analyze your results. Optimize your workflow with machine learning capabilities, explore real-world scenarios, and more with this hands-on resource!


In this book, you’ll learn about:


a. Configuration


Set up inventory management in your SAP S/4HANA system. Follow click-by-click instructions to configure inventory settings in procurement, logistics execution, production planning, stock transport, and more.


b. Planning, Execution, and Analysis


Master the inventory optimization cycle. Design planning strategies, perform goods receipt, and execute key processes such as stock transfer posting, physical inventory, and production. Use analytics tools to assess important KPIs.


c. Your Inventory Landscape


See how to handle inventory management in on-premise, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. Work with the latest cloud solutions, from SAP IBP to SAP Business Technology Platform to SAP Datasphere.


Highlights include:


1) Inventory optimization


2) Inventory planning


3) Goods receipt


4) Stock identification and transfer


5) Physical inventory


6) Production execution


7) Inventory analysis


8) Configuration


9) Best practices


10) Real-world scenarios

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Esser, Bernd Roedel
• Publisher: Rheinwerk Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.03.2026
• EAN: 9781493227365
• ISBN: 978-1-4932-2736-5
• No. of pages: 477
• Series: SAP PRESS Englisch
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; SAP S4 HANA, SAP S4HANA, Inventory management (IM)