SAP MM (Materials Management)

Material Management covers the functionality required to purchase goods and services, manage inventory, and inspect incoming materials. The Purchasing function includes creation of requisitions, requisition approval, purchase order generation, and receipt of goods and services. Inventory Management includes issuing and transferring inventory, inventory restocking, and the inventory count and adjustment processes.

(Another) SAP MM is the materials management module of the SAP ERP software package from SAP AG. Materials management is integrated with other modules such as SD, PP and QM. Materials management is used for procurement and inventory management. The module has two important master data - material and vendor. Broadly, the various levels that can be defined for a SAP MM implementation are: Client, Company Code, Plant, Storage Location and Purchase Organization. SAP MM is all about managing the materials i.e the resources of an organization. These resources include man, manpower and materials. The main functionality within MM includes purchasing, Inventory management, valuation and assignment, batch management and classification.

11.1.   Purchasing
11.2.   Invoice Verification
11.3    Logistics (General)
11.4.   Logistics Information System
11.5.   Inventory Management
11.6.   Inventory / Valuations
11.7.   Materials Planning
11.8.   Workflow
11.9.   External Services Management
11.10.  QM in MM
11.11.  Warehouse Management