Configured procurement structure
Deliverable: A purchasing organisation, plant and storage location structure configured and assigned from scratch, documented well enough for another consultant to reproduce it.
Course
SAP MM (Materials Management)
The procurement and inventory module, taught by running the procure-to-pay cycle end to end so you can trace what every document did to stock and to the ledger.
- Duration: 4 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Configure the purchasing organisation, plant and storage location structure
- Create and maintain material, vendor and purchasing info records
- Run the full procure-to-pay cycle and trace each document to the next
- Post goods movements and read their effect on stock and on accounting
- Configure and execute invoice verification with three-way matching
- Explain the MM integration with FI and with production planning
Who this course is for
- Graduates in any stream, commerce and engineering backgrounds especially
- Purchase, stores and warehouse staff moving into ERP roles
- Supply chain and logistics executives
- Familiarity with how goods are bought and received is a real advantage
Syllabus
6 modules · 4 months
Module 1. Enterprise structure for procurement
- Company code, plant, storage location and purchasing organisation
- Assignment between organisational units
- Material types and number ranges
- Purchasing groups and document types
Module 2. Master data
- Material master and its views
- Vendor master, general, company code and purchasing data
- Purchasing info records and source lists
- Quota arrangements and the source determination logic
Module 3. Procurement cycle
- Purchase requisition and release strategy
- Request for quotation and quotation comparison
- Purchase order creation, output and change history
- Contracts, scheduling agreements and outline agreements
Module 4. Inventory management
- Goods receipt against a purchase order
- Goods issue, transfer posting and stock transport
- Movement types and the document each one creates
- Physical inventory and stock reconciliation
Module 5. Invoice verification and valuation
- Three-way match — purchase order, goods receipt, invoice
- Blocking, releasing and tolerance keys
- Material valuation, moving average and standard price
- Automatic account determination and where the entries land
Module 6. Reporting and integration
- Standard purchasing and stock reports
- MM to FI integration, entry by entry
- MM to production planning and to sales
- Common errors and how to read an SAP message properly
Tools and technologies you will use
- SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC
- SAP GUI
- Microsoft Excel
Projects you will build
Complete procure-to-pay run
Deliverable: A requisition raised, released, converted to a purchase order, received into stock and invoiced with a three-way match, with every document number traced through to the accounting entry.
Movement type analysis
Deliverable: Six different goods movements posted, each documented with the material document, the accounting document and a written explanation of what changed in stock and in the ledger.
Where this course can take you
- SAP MM Consultant
- SAP End User
- Purchase Executive
- Stores and Inventory Officer
- Supply Chain Analyst
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 4 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode and include practice server access. Official SAP certification, if you choose to take it, is booked and paid through SAP separately.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Follow one purchase order all the way
The fastest way to understand MM is to watch a single transaction cross the whole system.
A requisition is raised and released. It becomes a purchase order. Goods arrive and a receipt posts, which moves stock and simultaneously creates an accounting document. An invoice arrives, gets matched against both, and the vendor becomes payable. Six documents, one purchase, and every one of them exists because of a control somebody needed.
The second project is exactly that run, traced document number by document number. Once you have done it, the configuration modules stop being abstract.
Movement types are the language
Almost everything that happens to stock in SAP is a movement type, and each one carries its own accounting consequence.
Learning them as a list is useless. Learning what each one did to stock value and to the general ledger is the thing that makes an MM consultant useful to a finance team — and it is the difference between someone who can post a goods receipt and someone who can explain why the stock account moved.
Where MM sits against the other modules
MM buys and stores. SD sells and delivers. FICO records and reports all of it.
They are three careers, not three difficulty levels, and the honest advice is to take the one your existing work supports. Someone from a stores or purchase background arrives here already understanding the problem the software solves, which is a genuine head start that no amount of study replaces.
What we do not claim
The certificate from this course is ours, not SAP’s.
Official SAP certification is booked and paid for directly with SAP, and no private institute can issue it. We will explain what the official exam covers and what it costs if you want that route, but we will not blur the distinction to make this course sound like something it is not.
Questions
SAP MM (Materials Management) — frequently asked questions
Do I need a procurement background for SAP MM?
It is not mandatory in the way accounting is mandatory for FICO, but it helps a great deal. Someone who has raised a purchase order, chased a delivery or counted stock understands immediately why the documents exist. Without that, the first two modules will feel abstract until the cycle project makes it concrete.
How is SAP MM different from FICO and SD?
MM covers buying and stock, FICO covers finance and costing, SD covers selling and delivery. They are three different careers rather than three levels. MM suits people from purchase, stores, warehouse or supply chain; take the module your existing experience supports, because that experience is what makes you hireable.
What is a three-way match and why does it matter so much?
It is the check that the purchase order, the goods receipt and the vendor invoice agree before anybody gets paid. It is the single control that stops a company paying for goods it never received, and most of what an MM consultant configures around invoice verification exists to enforce it. The second project makes you run one properly.
Is this an official SAP certification?
No. This is training and the certificate is issued by Samyak. SAP's own certification is booked and paid for through SAP directly. No private institute can award it, and we would rather tell you that than let the word "certification" do work it should not.
Will I get practice access to a system?
Yes. Practice server access is part of the course, and the projects require you to configure in your own client rather than follow a recorded demonstration. Configuration you have done yourself is what gives you something to say in an interview.
Enquire about SAP MM (Materials Management)
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling)
The finance module of SAP, taught by configuring an org structure and closing a real period in it, so you can answer how the system works rather than only where the buttons are.
- SAP SD (Sales and Distribution)
The sales module, taught by configuring pricing and running order-to-cash end to end, so you understand why an order priced the way it did rather than only where to click.
- Tally Prime with GST
Tally Prime taught through a full simulated financial year — vouchers, inventory, GST, TDS and payroll — so you finish having actually kept a set of books, not just clicked through menus.
- Advanced Excel
The Excel that offices actually run on — lookup logic, PivotTables, Power Query pipelines, dashboards and enough VBA to automate the work you repeat every month.
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