Variances in Invoice Verification

The system needs to be configured properly with ‘Tolerances’ so that you are not hampered with variances when you try Invoice Verification. You need to define the lower and upper limits for each combination of the Company Code and the tolerance key defined for the various variances. The system then checks these tolerance limits and issues warnings or prevents you from proceeding further when you process an invoice.

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Order Processing User Guide in SAP SD

In this user guide, the major exercise steps will be implemented using the International Demonstration and Education System (IDES) Model Company that has been set up in the R/3 System. The IDES corporate group is comprised of a number of companies that operate in various industries (automobile production, financial services, aerospace etc.) and countries.

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MRP Concept in SAP

MRP is the planning tool in SAP which will look at all aspects of a material and is highly based upon the master data of the material.
MRP looks at current inventory, current requirements, and open purchase requisition/orders and so on. So if a material is required to satisfy a sales order and there is no inventory, MRP will create a planned order if the item is to be produced in house. This planned order can then be converted to a production order by the master scheduler.

If the item is to be procured, then MRP will create a purchase requisition which the Buyer will convert to a purchase order. This is just one scenario, the system is highly configurable and will do pretty much whatever you tell based on config and master data.

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Building and Maintenance of Roles

PFCG is the transaction you use to create and maintain security roles in SAP. PFCG, or profle generator, is a powerful tool that allows the security administrator to quickly build security roles by frst building a menu of transactions that instruct the profle generator to bring in authorization objects that you then maintain authorization values for based on the requirements you are trying to meet.

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Inter Company Billing Tutorial: Automatic Posting To Vendor Account in SAP

Automatic posting to vendor account is done by EDI in SAP. In our case where both companies are proccessed in the same system (& client), it is sufficient to create Idoc.

This document covers following steps for this process

  1. Creating a Customer to represent the receiving Company.
  2. Creating a Vendor to represent the supplying company.
  3. Creating a Port
  4. Maintain an Output Type
  5. Creating a Logical Address
  6. Creating a Partner Profile for both Customer & Vendor
  7. The relevant MM customizing is maintained.
  8. The relevant FI customizing is maintained.

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