Inventory Management and Optimization in SAP ERP
SAP Press (Verlag)
978-1-4932-1310-8 (ISBN)
Avoid having too little or too much stock on hand with this guide to inventory management and optimization with SAP ERP! Start by managing the stock you have through replenishment, goods issue, goods receipt, and internal transfers. Then plan for and optimize your future by avoiding bottlenecks, setting lead times, using simulations, and more. Finally, evaluate your operations using standard reports, the MRP Monitor, and KPIs. Keep your stock levels just right! Key Inventory Processes: Understand essential business processes like good receipt, goods issue, internal stock transfer, reservations, and using materials documents. Then map these processes to their specific master data settings like service levels and lot size. Planning and Optimization: Learn how the entire supply chain influences inventory planning, and jump into methods and tools for inventory optimization including SAP ERP Add-On tools for simulations and inventory cockpits. Monitoring, Reporting, and Analysis: Employ Logistics Information Systems methods to control and monitor inventory, use the MRP Monitor for inventory analysis, and calculate key indicators to measure inventory performance. Highlights:
Inventory management
Inventory optimization
Supply chain management
Goods receipt/goods issue (GR/GI)
Stock transfer
SAP ERP Add-Ons
Lot size
Demand planning
Material requirements planning (MRP)
MRP Monitor
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Elke Roettig works at bigbyte software systems, inc., a New York-based international management consulting firm that provides expertise to optimize and streamline SAP Supply Chain Management. In that role she has focused her efforts on supply chain optimization, working with various clients on an international basis and utilizing the SAP ERP Add-On tools.Elke has a degree in business administration from the Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie (VWA) in Stuttgart, Germany. Since 1994, she has worked as an SAP consultant, focusing on materials and inventory management. She has functioned as senior SAP functional consultant on full life-cycle SAP implementations for many clients in the US across a multitude of different industries (automotive, consumer products, manufacturing, printing and packaging, engineering, wholesale distribution, medical devices, mining, etc.) and has supported many implementations in additional roles. Her consulting experience includes working with different releases of the SAP ERP system as well as with the SAP Business Warehouse system.
Introduction
Contents of This Book
Who This Is Book For
How This Book is Organized
Inventory Management Basics
Movement Type Concept
Document Principle
Common Inventory Types
Inventory Costs
Summary
Inventory Business Processes
Inbound Processes: Goods Receipts
Outbound Processes: Goods Issues
Internal Stock Transfer Processes
Reservations
Cancelling Material Documents
Printing Material Documents
Physical Inventory
Inventory Management Reporting
Summary
Master Data Settings
Service Level and Safety Stocks
Safety Time
Lot Sizes
MRP Types
Replenishment Lead Time
Summary
Planning Around Inventory
Setting an Inventory Strategy
Forecasting and Demand Planning
Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
Production
Summary
Inventory Optimization and Tools
Inventory Optimization Initiatives
Using the SAP Add-On Tools for Simulation
Using the Inventory Controlling Cockpit Add-On Tool
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
Summary
Controlling, Monitoring, and Reporting on Inventory
Standard SAP ERP Reports
Analysis in the Inventory Controlling System
Analyses Using the MRP Monitor
Inventory Reporting Methods for Accounting Purposes
Summary
Measuring Inventory Performance
Key Figures
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Dual Classification in the Logistics Information System
Summary
Conclusion
Appendices
Additional Resources
The SAP Add-On Tools
SAP Key Figures in the Logistics Information System
The Author
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.04.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SAP PRESS Englisch |
| Verlagsort | Maryland |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 175 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke |
| Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► SAP | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb | |
| Schlagworte | Goods issue and receipt • Internal movements • Inventory Management • Inventory Management (MM-IM) • Inventory optimization • KPIs • Materials Management • Monitoring and controlling • SAP ERP • Stock levels |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4932-1310-5 / 1493213105 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4932-1310-8 / 9781493213108 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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