C_TS452: SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement (MM)

Procurement in S/4HANA

• Sourcing and procurement process overview
• S/4HANA changes compared with ECC
• Fiori apps for buyers and warehouse clerks
• Implementation guide basics
• Integration with FI, SD and PP

Organisational structure

• Plants and storage locations
• Purchasing organisations: plant, company and cross-company
• Purchasing groups
• Valuation level
• Assigning org units

• Lab: Define and assign a plant, storage location and purchasing organisation · 50 min

Material master

• Material types and industry sectors
• Material master views and organisational levels
• Material groups and units of measure
• Field selection for the material master
• Mass maintenance

• Lab: Create a material type and material master records · 45 min

Business partner for suppliers

• Supplier roles and BP groupings
• Purchasing data at organisation level
• Partner functions
• Customer-vendor integration

• Lab: Create a supplier business partner · 30 min

Requisitions and sourcing

• Purchase requisitions: manual and automatic
• Requests for quotation and quotations
• Price comparison
• Source lists and quota arrangements
• Source determination

• Lab: Create a requisition and source it from a quotation · 45 min

Purchase orders

• Purchase order structure
• Item categories: standard, consignment, subcontracting, third-party
• Account assignment categories
• Purchase order history
• Fiori apps for purchase orders

• Lab: Create purchase orders with different item categories · 50 min

Outline agreements and info records

• Purchasing info records
• Quantity and value contracts
• Scheduling agreements
• Release orders
• Conditions in info records

• Lab: Create a contract and release order · 40 min

Document control

• Document types and number ranges
• Field selection keys
• Default values for buyers
• Messages and output determination

• Lab: Configure a new purchase order document type · 40 min

Release strategies

• Classification-based release strategies
• Characteristics and classes
• Release groups, codes and indicators
• Testing release strategies
• Flexible workflow overview

• Lab: Configure a release strategy for purchase orders · 60 min

Conditions and pricing

• Condition technique
• Condition types, tables and access sequences
• Calculation schema
• Schema determination
• Freight and discount conditions

• Lab: Build a calculation schema with discount and freight · 50 min

Goods movements

• Movement types
• Goods receipt for purchase order
• Goods issue and reservations
• Transfer postings and stock transfers
• Stock types: unrestricted, quality and blocked

• Lab: Post goods receipts, issues and transfer postings · 50 min

Special procurement and special stocks

• Consignment
• Subcontracting
• Stock transport orders
• Third-party processing
• Pipeline and returnable packaging overview

• Lab: Run a subcontracting cycle · 45 min

Physical inventory

• Physical inventory documents
• Counting and recounting
• Posting differences
• Cycle counting
• Stock overview and reports

• Lab: Execute a physical inventory count · 35 min

Material valuation

• Valuation areas and valuation classes
• Moving average and standard price control
• Material ledger in S/4HANA
• Price changes and revaluation
• Split valuation

• Lab: Compare moving average and standard price postings · 40 min

Automatic account determination

• Valuation grouping codes
• Transaction keys and account modifiers
• Account determination configuration
• Simulating account determination

• Lab: Configure and simulate automatic account determination · 50 min

Logistics invoice verification

• Invoice entry and document parking
• Tolerance limits and blocking reasons
• Releasing blocked invoices
• Subsequent debits and credits
• GR/IR clearing
• Evaluated receipt settlement

• Lab: Post invoices with variances and release blocks · 45 min

Material requirements planning basics

• MRP in S/4HANA
• Consumption-based planning and reorder point
• MRP types and lot sizing
• Planned orders and requisitions from MRP
• Stock/requirements list

• Lab: Run reorder point planning and convert requisitions · 45 min

Integration and reporting

• Procure-to-pay document flow
• Purchasing and inventory analytics in Fiori
• Supplier evaluation overview
• Integration with SD and FI

Exam readiness

• C_TS452 topic area review
• Question styles and time management
• Practice questions with review
• Confirming the current release code on SAP Learning