Procurement and retail processes that work on the shop floor, not only in the blueprint.

Master data design, governance rules and migration for both MM and IS Retail.

SAP MM

• Material master
• Vendor master / business partner
• Purchasing info record
• Source list
• Quota arrangement
• Purchase price condition records
• Service master
• Batch master
• Bill of material for subcontracting

SAP IS Retail

• Article master: single, generic, variants, sets, displays, prepacks
• Site master: stores and distribution centres
• Merchandise category
• Merchandise category hierarchy
• Article hierarchy
• Characteristics and classes for generic articles
• Assortments
• Listing of articles to assortments
• Sales price condition records

Every procurement cycle, configured from requisition to payment, with GST.

• Domestic procurementRequisition, purchase order, goods receipt and invoice verification.
• Import procurementImport purchase order with customs duty conditions, bill of entry, goods receipt and vendor invoice.
• SubcontractingComponents issued to the vendor, finished item received, component consumption posted.
• Service procurementService purchase order, service entry sheet and acceptance, then invoice.
• Stock transport ordersSite-to-site and intercompany transfers, including DC to store.
• ConsignmentVendor-owned stock at your site, settled as it is withdrawn.
• Asset and cost-centre procurementAccount-assigned purchase orders for assets, cost centres and projects.
• Contracts and scheduling agreementsOutline agreements with release orders and delivery schedules.
• Vendor returnsReturn purchase orders and return deliveries with credit memos.
• Retail allocation and collective ordersAllocation tables to split stock across stores and collective purchase orders.
• Release strategyApproval levels for requisitions and purchase orders.

Inventory transactions and movement types, with account determination.

• Goods receipt against purchase orderReceipt into unrestricted, quality or blocked stock.
• Goods receipt without purchase orderReceipts with no reference document.
• Initial stock uploadOpening stock at cutover.
• Goods issue to cost centreConsumption posted to a cost centre.
• Goods issue to order or projectConsumption for internal orders and projects.
• ScrappingWrite-off of damaged or expired stock.
• Transfer posting: site to siteOne-step and two-step transfers between plants or sites.
• Transfer posting: storage location to storage locationMovement inside one site.
• Transfer posting: material to materialArticle code correction with stock.
• Stock type changesQuality to unrestricted, unrestricted to blocked and back.
• Positive and negative adjustmentPhysical inventory count, recount and posting of differences.
• Return to vendorReturn delivery against the original receipt.
• Subcontracting stockComponents provided to the vendor and their consumption.
• ReservationsPlanned goods issues and transfers.

The standard reports I set up, train users on and use for reconciliation. Custom reports are under WRICEF.

Purchasing

• Purchase orders by PO number
• Purchase orders by vendor
• Purchase orders by material
• Purchase orders by account assignment
• List of purchase requisitions
• General analysis of purchasing documents
• Info records by vendor
• Info records by material
• Subcontracting stock monitoring
• Outline agreements by agreement number

Inventory

• Stock overview
• Warehouse stocks of material
• Material document list
• Stock on posting date
• Stock in transit
• List of stock values
• Shelf life expiration list
• Reservation list
• Physical inventory: list of differences
• Physical inventory list

Invoice verification

• Invoice document list
• Invoice overview
• Blocked invoices
• GR/IR balance list

IS Retail

• Stock overview for articles and sites
• Replenishment monitor
• POS interface monitor
• IDoc list for POS and integration checks

For custom objects I write the functional specification, test the build and take it through sign-off.