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SAP MM User Manual: Purchasing

Find below link to a very comprehensive Purchasing manual for most commonly used proccesses in SAP MM. Content of this step-by-step guide is as following;

Purchase requisition: Create Purchase Requisition for Account Assignment, Asset, Non Valuated materials, Stock materials [ME51N], Change Purchase Requisition [ME52N], Display Purchase Requisition [ME53N], Assign source of supply to requisitions [ME56]
Request for Quotation: Create Quotation [ME41], Maintain Quotation [ME47], Display Quotation [ME48], RFQ Comparison [ME49], Message Output RFQ [ME9A]
Contract/APO: Create Contract with reference to PR [ME31K], Create Contract with reference to RFQ [ME31K], Change Contract [ME32K], Display Contract [ME33K]
Purchase Order/Release Order: Create Purchase Order for Account Assignment Asset, Non Valuated materials, Stock materials, Subcontracting & Repair [ME21N], Change Purchase Order [ME22N], Display Purchase Order [ME23N]

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March 27, 2012/0 Comments/by yzmercan

Beginner’s Guide to Daily SAP Purchasing Processes for Reference

This document contains step-by-step self notes with detailed screenshots to SAP Purchasing related daily processes. You can see the list of covered content below:

Assign and Process Purchase Requisitions [ME57]
View Purchase Orders (ME23N & ME22N) [ME23N]
Printing a Purchase Order [ME23N]
Open PO Report [ME2L]
MRP Rescheduling
Finding POs by Part Numbers [ME2M]
Locating Vendor Information [XK03]
Finding Spend by Supplier [ME2L]
Interplant Shipments (MD04) []
Blocked Invoices [MRBR] & [FBL1N]
Changing Purchase Groups [MD04]
Faxing a SAP PO [ME22N]
Obsolete Materials [MD04]
Changing Lead times [ME32K]
Safety Lead Time [MM02] ( MRP2 Tab)
No Source List [ME57]
Outside Processes – an Example of a process
NCMR Process [QM03]
Managing Low Value Inventories (Process)
MRP and ROP

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December 8, 2011/0 Comments/by yzmercan

Materials Management

Step by Step Guide to Sending Purchase Order Via Email & Fax in SAP

This documents explains the required steps with screenshots for sending purchase order as an “External Send” in SAP. You will find following instructions in this tutorial;

Ordering via the Gateway – [ME21]
Attaching Documents
Refaxing Orders
Transmissions Logs [SOSB]

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November 29, 2011/0 Comments/by yzmercan

Materials Management

SAP MM Purchasing Sim Video Tutorials Package

In this post, you will find link to step-by-step interactive video tutorials for the most common SAP MM Purchasing processes which some are listed below:

Create Request for Quotation
Create Purchase Requisition
Individual Release of Purchase Requisition
Collective Release of Purchase Requisition
Create Purchase Order without Reference
Create Purchase Order with reference to Quotation
Create Purchase Order with reference to Purchase Order
Individual & Collective Approval of Purchase Order
List Purchase Order Reports by Purchase Order / Vendor / Material / Cost Center
Create Contract with/out reference to Purchase Requisition
List Contract Reports per Material / Vendor

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October 25, 2011/0 Comments/by yzmercan

Materials Management

SAP MM Case Study: Purchasing Process Training for Beginners

This SAP MM case study (for SAP ECC 6.0) explains an integrated materials management process in detail and thus fosters a thorough understanding of each process step and underlying SAP functionality.

Within a fictitious company, you will take on different roles in order to process a complete purchasing process.. e.g. purchasing agent, warehouse worker, accounting clerk. Overall, you will be working in the Materials Management (MM) and the Financial Accounting (FI) departments.
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July 15, 2011/0 Comments/by yzmercan

Materials Management

Purchasing & Inventory Management User Manual | SAP MM

Yet another powerful end-user guide for SAP MM Users. This user manual describe commonly used business processes related to Purchasing & Inventory Management in SAP. You will find step by step guide with screenshots, footnotes and explanation of important fields on transaction screens.