What is SAP digital strategy to improve the procurement to pay process in an organization and how it can impact its financials.

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Lecture 5 Procurement to Pay (PTP)

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Learning Objectives

Understand the elements involved on the Procurement to Pay (PTP) process

Understand the goal of Purchasing (PU) and Inventory Management (IM)

Understand the PU elements involved on the PTP process

Understand the IM elements involved on the PTP process

Understand the FI elements involved on the PTP process

Understand the integration points between PU, IMWM and FICO

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Procurement to Pay (PTP) Process

Material requisition

Internal request of needed material

Sourcing

Identification of approved sources of material

Order (no financial impact)

Formal request from a purchasing organization to a supplier for needed material

Good receipt (financial impact)

Checks the quantity of goods received against the order quantity.

Invoice receipt (financial impact)

Three way match between purchase order, goods receipt, and invoice.

Payment (financial impact)

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Order processing

Inventory receipt

Invoice Receipt

Payment

PO requisition

Sourcing

Procurement to Pay (PTP) Organizational Structure

Client

An independent environment in the system

Company Code

Represents an independent legal accounting unit

Balanced set of books, as required by law, are prepared at this level

A client may have more than one company code

Plant

The plant represents a production unit and is the central organizational unit in Materials Management and Production Planning.

Manufacturing, distribution, purchasing or maintenance facility

Storage location

An organizational unit allowing differentiation between the various stocks of a material in a plant

Represents the legal and/or organizational views of an enterprise and it forms a framework that supports the activities of a business in the manner desired by management

Procurement to Pay (PTP) Organizational Structure (Cont)

Purchasing Organization

Unit within the enterprise that performs strategic activities related to purchasing for one or more plants.

Evaluates vendors

Identify vendors

Negotiates contracts and agreements, pricing and other terms

An enterprise may have more one or more purchasing organizations

Types

Enterprise level (central)

Company code (by legal entity)

Plant level (by site)

Purchasing group

Key that represents the buyer or group of buyers who are responsible for certain purchasing activities

Channel of communication for vendors

Procurement to Pay (PTP) Organizational Structure (Cont)

Types of Purchasing orgs

Central purchasing

Company code specific

Plant specific

Procurement to Pay (PTP) Global Bike Material Management Structure

Two company codes

Two Purchasing org

Five plants

3 under GBI

2 under Global Bike Germany

Multiple storage locations that determine inventory status

Procurement to Pay (PTP) Reflection

What of the tree purchase org configuration options do you think Global Bike has?

Why do you think GBI decided to implement this option?

Procurement to Pay Master Data Summary

The procurement to pay (PTP) involves elements of the material management (PU and IM) and finance. This includes the following master data

Material Master controls the material (Raw, WIP, finished goods)

Vendor master. Vendor purchasing data and AP ledger

Purchasing Info record. Vendor price and conditions by material

Source list. List of approved vendors

Purchasing (PU) Sub-modules

Part of Logistics/Material Management/Purchasing

Purchase order

Purchase requisition

Outline agreement

RFQ/Quotation

Master data

Purchasing (PU) Introduction

Purchasing contains the central elements of the procurement activates within the company from gathering requirements to the end of the procurement cycle and allow to control the largest part of the procurement to pay (PTP) process.

Purchasing

Requirements

Procurement

Quote

Purchasing (PU) Transactions

XK01 Create Vendor Master

ME11 Create info record

ME51N Create Purchase Requisition

ME21N Create Purchase Order

ME31L Create Scheduling agreement (Contract)

Purchasing (PU) Vendor Master (XK01)

Vendor Master Account is data needed to conduct business with vendors and execute transactions related with the purchasing process

General (Client)

Purchasing org

Account

Name

Address

Payment term

Salesman’ name

Partner function

Purchasing currency

Price determination

Purchasing and Inventory Management (PU& IM) Material Master Views

Basic

Sales (SD)

Purchasing

Plant

Forecast

Storage

Quality

Accounting

Controlling

Purchasing and Inventory Management Material Master

Contains all of the key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization.

The material master defines, among other things, how a product is sold, manufactured, purchased, inventoried and costed.

Information is grouped into views that are organized by business function.

The majority of views of master data are stored at the plant level.

Basic Data

Material

Purchasing & Material Management

Unit of measure

Material group

Description

Purchasing

MRP1, 2 and 3

Purchasing group

Sales org data 1, 2 and general

Storage 1

Purchasing (PU) Info record(ME11)

Contains the relationship between a vendor and a material containing data such us current or future prices or conditions, lead times, .

General (Client)

Purchasing org & plant

Account

Name

Address

Purchasing org

Control data

Conditions

Lead times

Shipping instructions

Tax code

Price and validities

Inco-terms

Purchasing (PU) Info record

Allows buyers to quickly determine: Which vendors have offered or supplied specific materials

Info Records contain: Data on pricing and conditions

Last purchase order

Tolerance limits for deliveries

Specific lead times

Availability periods

Vendor Evaluation data

Serves as default information for Purchase Orders

Purchasing (PU) Sourcing list (ME01)

Sourcing is the assignment of a source of supply to a requisition. It specifies the allowed sources of material for certain plant for a predefined period.

General

Purchasing

Material

Validity

Plant

Vendor

Purchasing org

Purchasing (PU) Sourcing Types

Internal.

Within the enterprise (STO)

Source list

Record with list of allowed vendors

Outline agreement

Long term purchasing agreements

Contracts

Scheduling agreements

Request for Quote (RFQ)

Source

Internal STO

External source list

External agreement

External RFQ

Purchasing (PU) Purchase Requisition

Internal Document instructing the purchasing department to request a specific good or service for a specified time

Requisitions can be created two ways:

Directly - Manually person creating determines: what, how much, and when

Indirectly - Automatically MRP, Production Orders, Maintenance Orders, Sales Orders

Enter/generation of requisition

Shopping cart

Approval

PO creation

Purchasing (PU) Purchase Requisition(ME51N)

Header data

Reason for the request

Item details

Material

Quantity

Delivery date

Plant

Storage location

Purchasing (PU) Purchase Order

Is a formal request to a vendor for a specific material or service under agreed stated conditions

Can be created manually

Reference another purchase order

Reference a purchase requisition

Reference a RFQ/Quotation

Without a reference

Can be created automatically

Types of purchase or orders

Standard (stock)

Services

Subcontracting

Third-party

Consignment

The PO type is identified in the item category

Purchasing (PU) Purchase Order(ME21N)

Header data

Purchase org

Purchase group

Company code

Others

Item details

Item category

Material

Quantity

Delivery date

Plant

Storage location

Purchasing (PU) Scheduling Agreement

One of the outline agreement options of source

Long term purchasing agreement where total quantity of materials is spread over a certain period in a delivery schedule, consisting of lines items indicating quantities and their planned delivery date

Determine requirements (MRP)

Scheduling agreement

Purchase order processing

Purchasing (PU) Scheduling Agreement (ME31L)

Header

Vendor

Agreement type and date

Purchasing org

Payment terms

Items details

Material

Quantity

Delivery date

Plant

Storage location

Purchasing (PU) Reflection

Why purchase requisitions are important for internal control?

What is the difference between a Purchase order and an scheduling agreement and when to use each one?

Why is important to have a vendor source list?

Inventory Management (IM) Introduction

Inventory and Warehouse management deals with placing and handling stock received from vendors in the correct place within the company’s premises and plays a relevant element in the procurement to pay (PTP) process.

Inventory control

Stock

Purchase

GL

Inventory Management (IM) Transactions

MM01 Material Master record

MIGO Good Receipts

MB03 Display Material Document

Inventory Management (IM) Goods Receipts

Goods movement in which we accept goods into our system

If material is delivered against a PO we will reference the PO

Review we received what we order

Material

Quantity

Updates physical inventory and create a history track within the PO

PO

Vendor notification

Vendor

Shipment

Goods receipts

Inventory Management (IM) Material Movements Types

It is a three digit key that represents a movement of goods

Examples of movement types

101, goods receipt into warehouse

103, good receipt into blocked stock

122, return goods to vendor

231, consumption for a sales order

Inventory Management (IM) Goods Receipts

Event series during a goods receipt

Material document

Stock quantities and values are updated

Accounting document

Inventory updates from price on material master

GRIR updates from PO reference

Any variance goes to PPV

PO is updated

Output generated

Material document

Inventory valuation

Accounting document

PO History

Transaction output

Inventory Management (IM) Goods Receipts (MIGO)

Type of movement

Purchasing order type

Purchasing document

Plant

Date

Quantity received

Inventory Management (IM) Display Material Document(MIGO)

Material document or

Material document list

Material

Plant

Vendor

Movement type

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) Transactions

MIRO Invoice Receipt

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) Invoice Receipt

Processing of vendor invoices against a purchase order or scheduling agreement and recognize an account payable balance with the vendor

Three way match

Purchase order

Goods receipt

Vendor invoice

If discrepancies happens during three way match, depending of tolerance configured in the system, the invoice will be block for investigation.

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) Invoice Receipt

Event series during a goods receipt

Material document

PO is updated

Accounting document

GRIR updates from PO reference

AP updates from invoice reference

Any variance goes to PPV

Material document

PO History

Accounting document

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) Invoice Receipt

Select company code

Invoice date

Posting date

Amount and currency

Tax code

Reference and text

Purchasing document

Inventory Management & Logistics Invoice (IM & LIV) Reflection

What is the primarily goal of goods receipt in SAP?

What do you think is the financial impact of a goods receipt?

What is the purpose of the account Goods Receipts/Invoice Receive (GRIR)?

What do you think is the financial impact of invoice receipt?

What is the difference between FI-AP and LIV?

Why is important to analyze purchase price variances?

Accounts Payable (FI-AP) Outgoing Payment

Can be done automatically or manually

Post outgoing (F-53)

Payment program (F110)

Payments elements

Payment method

Bank from which we pay

Invoices to be paid

Payments amounts

Payment medium

Checks, wires, etc

Event series during a goods receipt

Accounting document

Vendor references invoice

Bank reference payment

PO is updated

Output generated

Accounts Payable Outgoing Payments (F-53)

Company code

Posting & document date

Document type

Currency

Bank Data (credit)

Value Data (payment date)

Vendor Data (debit)

Additional selections for line items identification

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Accounts Payable Mass Payments (F110)

Run date

Payment ID

Parameters

Posting date

Doc entry date reference

Company code

Payment terms

Next payment

Vendor range

Select printout/data medium

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Procurement to Pay (PTP) Integration PU, IM, LIV & FI-AP

Goods receipts

Dr Inventory based on standard price

Cr GRIR based on PO

Invoice receipt

Dr GRIR based on PO

Cr Vendor based on invoice

Payment

Dr Vendor based on invoice

Cr Bank based on payment

Procurement to Pay (PTP) SAP Practice

Create vendor

RFQ

Evaluate vendors

Create PO from RFQ

Goods receipt

Create material

Purchase requisition

Invoice receipt

Post payment