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SAP MM is an ERP system and it is consider as a great tool to deliver our work in much more efficient way. I work in SAP MM every day, the customization for SAP is one of the best, and arguably SAP is most integrated ERP system. As a supply chain professional we need to evaluate our work both tactical and strategic way. Customization of SAP MM as per individual company will be great help to professional like us. Not only creating POs or Contracts, creation of reports as per department or cost centre wise, vendor management, vendor spend Analysis, budgeting for next fiscal year all can be done very efficiently with help of SAP MM. There are so many other benefits of SAP MM.We can discuss later on.
SAP MM Module helps procurement professional in the following areas:
1- it connects buying activity with planning activity through PR which is initiated by requesters initially
2- it has the options of:
Request for quotations that can use vendor data base & mailing or faxing communication
Price comparison that can be shared to users
selection of the best offers and directly creating PO
3- ABC analysis of stocked items
4- Stock aging report
5- it can connect with quality module for acceptance or rejection of goods
6- it shows allocated stocks specially for projects
7- it gives item master and vendor master
8- if you need item portfolio it gives all related transactions
9- Consumption rates per week, month, year
10- MB51 report gives all warehouse transactions
11- it helps with pending and closed PO's
12- it gives all purchased material history
there are a lot more
It's easy to follow and check all status for your Purchase order and follow up with other department like Account, Store, ...etc'
SAP MM is important for procurement operations and procurement support. Sourcing should only have a general idea of how it works and what sort of reports they can get out of it in preparation for negotiations. Generally speaking, in terms of regular use of SAP MM, sourcers' time is too expensive to be wasted on operational tasks connected to SAP MM.
