The logisitic flow in SAP can be divided into 2 part.

1. FTS: Forecast to stock

2. OTC: Order to cash

 

Aa a master data guy, I would like to start my plan with FTS, which is needed to improve step by step.

< PIR >

1. Check the SOP in internal website.------------GROUP 6710 owned by Doles David

Responsibilities
Strategic sourcing is responsible to provide timely information to the sites regarding purchasing
information and conditions for materials handled by strategic sourcing.
Site purchasing operations, supply chain or logistics is responsible to maintain the records for
their plants in SAP
If Contracts are not maintained in SAP then PIR records must be. If required fields in the PIR
are not maintained in the contract, then a PIR must be maintained for those fields.

Maintenance:
ME11: Create info record
ME12: Change info record
ME13: Show info record
ME14: Show changes for info record
ME15: Flag for deletion of info record -> Deletion standard to be defined
ME16: Deletion proposals -> further clarification needed.
ME17: Archive administration. Further clarification and training necessary

Standard reporting functions:
ME1L: By vendor
ME1M: By material
ME1W: By material group
ME1A: Archived infos
ME1P: Order price history
ME1E: Quotation price history

Mass change:MEMASSIN

Fields:* - fields are required
*Planning time for delivery (Field: PL. Deliv. Time) - for this supplier, material, plant combination.Note: For MRP run the planned delivery time in Material Master data is relevant.
*Purchasing group (Field: Purch. Group) –should be the operational purchaser.In material master is the strategic buyer (for A, B materials).
*Standard Quantity (field Standard Qty) – the usual ordering amount.
*Minimum quantity (field Minimum Qty) – minimum amount which can be ordered.
*Under and over tolerances (fields Tol. Underdl. & Tol. Overdl.) – defaulted from material master, can be overridden here.
Tax code - used by finance, fills in how material is taxed.
Unlimited flag – Do not check this field. This means it doesn’t matter how much material is delivered. – we can keep accepting.
No ERS field - when checked, must add the account number in Vendor payment transaction field then the full payment data is automatically filled in at payment time. not used?
GR-BSD IV – required for scheduling agreements must have goods receipt based invoice check. this means we have a two way match. (there is no PO in a scheduling agreement) DON’T use scheduling agreements
No Mtext – When not checked, the material text comes every time automatically. To not use material text, must maintain PO text
Ackn reqd – (acknowledgement required) need confirmation of PO. Checking this box starts the automatic reminders for when confirmations are not entered into the PO.
Confirmation control – which confirmations are needed for a PO – order acknowledgement, delivery instructions received etc. Defaulted from purchasing value on material master.
Max quantity – the maximum amount which can be ordered at one time – not really used.
Procedure – export import procedure – mostly for intrastate reporting for foreign trade statistics.
Not really used
Rounding profile for proposed to delivered quantities. – for ROH not used often, keeps ordering to the correct amount and PO to delivery failures less. Can use over under tolerance for the same. Used more often with indirect materials, if we have meters and need to cut internally, if we have full boxes and have internally use only part of them (e.g. 3 bottles of a box of 10 bottles)
Unit of Measure Group (field UoM Group) – not often used. When buy with kg but use with liters does the conversion for reporting- very complicated.
CONDITIONS – it shows the most recent.
*Effective price – price of material with shipping (if known, else same as net price)
*Net price – price of material,
*validity dates - dates from and to which price is effective, when real date will stop ordering on
obsolete price
*Condition supplements – type of price or different price elements (net, freight etc)
Qty conversion – when price and received quantity have different units (e.g. kg, lb),
No cash discount flag - indicates whether prompt payment results in cash discount
PIR to PR
Condition group – not really used. This field associates specific conditions from a vendor to a
PIR. Tables need to be maintained.
Price date category – when is the date effective – PO date, delivery date etc. good for
commodities when you have a year long scaling price and must pick the correct condition record.
Incoterms – must be entered into the PIR when open or changed. Must include Incoterms 1
and 2.
Vendor information
Some of the data defaults from the material master data (1st Rem., 2nd Rem., 3rd Rem.) 
Some of the data defaults from the vendor master data: Sales Person, Telephone.
*Vendor mat no – Material number in vendor’s system, convenient for vendor discussions and matching materials across sites.
*Country of origin (field Ctry of Origin) – Country where goods are manufactured. This is not necessarily the same as the vendor’s country.
Purchase Order Units of Measure:
*Order unit – how the material is ordered from supplier e.g. kg, pc, lt can be different form basic unit of measurement
This was a system error and should have been corrected but double check your PO print when you first add PIR or Material text .
Info record text – information about the supplier and material for the plant. Does NOT print on the PO
Purchase order text - information about the supplier and material for the plant. DOES print on the PO
The values entered in conditions have a primary effect on what is printed on the purchase order.
Conditions may be maintained for Price (PB00), Freight (FRA2) and other costs associated to this material.
Select the ‘condition’ button--Select the latest line and “new with reference”---When the new line is added, the previous line automatically gets the last “to date” before the effective date of the new record---Select the “additional data” button---Check the terms of payment.