Procurement
The number of steps in the Procurement Process
What is five (5)?
The number of steps in the Fulfillment Process.
What is seven (7)?
The material type assigned to items we produce.
What is Finished Goods (FG)?
This Enterprise Structure components is used to define a physical location used by the business.
What is a Plant?
These business rules are created to ensure the correct G/L account is used for transactions.
What is Automatic Account Determination?
The trigger that starts procurement.
What is [an out of stock event], [hitting a reorder point], [Authorization of Production]?
The document that obligates your customer to buy goods from you.
What is the Purchase Order?
The third step in the production process.
What is the Goods Issue?
The enterprise structure combines the Sales Organizations and Distribution Channels together.
What is a Distribution Chain?
These business rules are configured to ensure that dollar or quantity thresholds are enforced.
What are Tolerance Limits?
The components of the three-way match.
What are Purchase Order, Goods Receipt and Vendor Invoice?
This check is done when the sales order is entered to offer ATP.
What is the availability check?
The document that describes how many of what material will be produced by when.
What is the Planned Order?
The configuration of this entity provides exceptions in the Customer or Material master for a specific customer.
This set of parameters are configured to ensure that product leaves the correct plant from the most effective location.
What are Shipping Point Determination parameters?
The data category that the Plant configuration is stored in.
What is Enterprise Structure?
This material type is assigned for goods that are only distributed.
What are Trading Goods (TG)?
This transaction needs to be completed in order to provide the resources to produce the goods.
What is the Goods Issue?
This Material Master view allows the configuration of the MRP Controller, Scheduling Margin Key and Availability Check.
What is the MRP View?
These conditions can be assigned to a procedure and customer to ensure the sales order is accurate.
What are Pricing Conditions and Determination?
What is ME21N?
The mechanism that SAP (and other ERPs) use to keep track of what the customer owes us.
What is the Customer Sub-ledger?
These steps in production have financial impact - they affect G/L account balances.
What are Goods Issue, Goods Receipt and Order Settlement?
These are the four (4) areas of Master Data configuration that supports the Fulfillment process.
What are Material, Customer, Customer-Material Info Record, and Pricing Conditions?
There are two parameters that when combined define the scope of an availability check.
What are the Checking Rule and the Checking Group?