SAP S/4HANA MM study guide
SAP S/4HANA MM · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The SAP S/4HANA Materials Management certification is a SAP credential aimed at professionals who configure and run procurement, inventory, and invoice-verification processes in SAP S/4HANA. Candidates are typically consultants, key users, or application specialists who already work with purchasing master data, goods movements, logistics invoice verification, and material valuation, and who want formal recognition of that configuration knowledge. The SAP S/4HANA MM study guide has 5 sections and about 1,780 words.
01Procurement Processes and Customizing
Most customizing questions resolve to a handful of objects. Document types control number ranges, field selection, whether numbers are assigned internally or externally, and which item categories (and, with them, which account assignment categories) may be used.
384 words, about 2 min02Inventory Management and Physical Inventory
Every goods movement is booked with a movement type that determines direction (receipt, issue, transfer), the stock types affected, and account determination. Stock sits in unrestricted, quality inspection and blocked stock, plus GR blocked stock , which is not available stock.
354 words, about 2 min03Logistics Invoice Verification
Invoice verification compares the invoice with the purchase order and, where GR-based IV is set on the PO item, with the goods receipt. Differences are checked against tolerance keys - price variance, quantity variance, amount, percentage, date variance - each with limits defined per company code in customizing.
338 words, about 2 min04Valuation and Account Assignment
Materials are valued at valuation area level (plant or company code, per customizing). The material's valuation class , combined with the valuation grouping code and the movement's transaction key , drives automatic posting.
349 words, about 2 min05Purchasing Master Data and Special Procurement Processes
Vendor master is a business partner in S/4HANA carrying the supplier role (for example FLVN01). Purchasing data sits at purchasing organization level and optionally at plant level: order currency, payment terms, incoterms, partner functions.
355 words, about 2 min