Name: Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA - Functionality and Configuration
Brand: SAP
SKU: BOOK-SAPPRESS-EBOOK-2023-9781493223008

Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA - Functionality and Configuration

Language

🇺🇸 English

Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2023 / 2

Pages 522

Authors Paul Ovigele

Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA

The Material Ledger is mandatory in SAP S/4HANA. Get it up and running smoothly with this all-in-one resource! Configure key settings for currency conversion, ledgers, and valuation views. Then set up and run your key ML processes, step by step: actual costing, group valuation, profit center valuation, parallel cost of goods manufactured, and balance sheet valuation. Walk through special scenarios and execute reports to monitor material value flows. Unlock the potential of the Material Ledger!

Configure and run actual costing using the Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA
Master parallel valuation: group valuation, profit center valuation, balance sheet valuation, and more
Analyze your results with SAP S/4HANA reporting tools

You'll learn about:

Configuration:
Set up the Material Ledger! Start by configuring currency types, ledgers, and valuation views in SAP S/4HANA. Then customize key processes to your specific needs for group valuation, actual costing, balance sheet valuation, and more.
Valuation and Actual Costing:
Master parallel valuation with the Material Ledger for groups, profit centers, and balance sheets. Get step-by-step instructions to perform actual costing runs and material price analysis in SAP S/4HANA.
Peripheral Applications:
Use the Material Ledger in specialized scenarios such as stock in transit, split valuation, make-to-order products, daily actual costs, exchange rate differences, and profitability analysis.

Key Highlights:

Group currency and valuation
Profit center valuation
Actual costing
Account determination
Material price analysis
Parallel cost of goods manufactured
Balance sheet valuation
Stock in transit
Peripheral applications
Reporting

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Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- How This Book Is Organized
- Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to the Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA
- 1.1 What Is the Material Ledger?
- 1.2 The Before: The Material Ledger in SAP ERP
  - 1.2.1 Inventory Valuation
  - 1.2.2 Multiple Valuation Approaches
  - 1.2.3 Actual Costing
- 1.3 The After: The Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA
  - 1.3.1 SAP S/4HANA Finance
  - 1.3.2 Why the Material Ledger Is Mandatory
  - 1.3.3 Inventory Valuation in SAP S/4HANA
- 1.4 Summary
2 Configuring Currency Types, Ledgers, and Valuation Views
- 2.1 Defining Currency Types for the General Ledger
  - 2.1.1 Standard SAP Currency Types
  - 2.1.2 Defining Standard Currency Types in the Universal Journal
- 2.2 Currency Conversion Settings for Company Codes
- 2.3 Defining the Currency and Valuation Profile
  - 2.3.1 Maintaining the Currency and Valuation Profile
  - 2.3.2 Assigning the Currency and Valuation Profile to the Controlling Area
  - 2.3.3 Creating Versions for the Valuation Methods
  - 2.3.4 Activating the Currency and Valuation Profile
- 2.4 Defining Ledgers for Valuation Views
  - 2.4.1 Ledgers in the Universal Journal
  - 2.4.2 Multi-Valuation Ledger
  - 2.4.3 Single Valuation Ledger
- 2.5 Defining Ledgers for Controlling Versions
- 2.6 Material Ledger Activation for Currencies and Valuations
  - 2.6.1 Defining Material Ledger Types and Assigning Currency Types
  - 2.6.2 Assigning Material Ledger Types to Valuation Areas
  - 2.6.3 Activating Material Ledgers for Valuation Areas
- 2.7 Summary
3 Group Currency and Valuation
- 3.1 Group Currency
  - 3.1.1 Setting Up Group Currency for a Company Code
  - 3.1.2 Changing Material Cost
  - 3.1.3 Making a Purchase
- 3.2 Group Valuation
  - 3.2.1 Transfer Pricing with Group Valuation
  - 3.2.2 Group Valuation with Standard Cost
  - 3.2.3 Group Valuation Configuration for WIP
- 3.3 Cross-Company Purchasing
  - 3.3.1 Intercompany Setup
  - 3.3.2 Intercompany Scenario
- 3.4 Summary
4 Profit Center Valuation
- 4.1 Transfer Pricing Logic with Profit Center Valuation
  - 4.1.1 Defining the Currency Type for Profit Center Accounting
  - 4.1.2 Defining Transfer Pricing for Profit Center Valuation
  - 4.1.3 Settings for Internal Goods Movement
- 4.2 Standard Cost and Profit Center Valuation
  - 4.2.1 Defining a Costing Variant for Profit Center Valuation
  - 4.2.2 Assigning Transfer Price Variant to the Costing Version
  - 4.2.3 Configuring a Delta Cost Component
  - 4.2.4 Configuring a Special Procurement Key
  - 4.2.5 Calculating Standard Cost
  - 4.2.6 Manually Updating the Material Cost
- 4.3 Profit Center Valuation Configuration for WIP
- 4.4 Cross-Profit Center Purchasing
- 4.5 Manufacturing Orders with Profit Center Valuation
  - 4.5.1 Material Consumption in a Different Profit Center
  - 4.5.2 Goods Receipt in a Different Profit Center
- 4.6 Summary
5 Configuring Actual Costing
- 5.1 Material Ledger Activation for Actual Costing
  - 5.1.1 Maintaining Number Ranges for Material Ledger Documents
  - 5.1.2 Configuring Dynamic Price Changes
- 5.2 Material Update
  - 5.2.1 Defining Movement Type Groups of the Material Ledger
  - 5.2.2 Assigning Movement Type Groups of the Material Ledger
  - 5.2.3 Defining the Material Update Structure
  - 5.2.4 Assigning Material Update Structure to the Valuation Area
- 5.3 Actual Costing
  - 5.3.1 Activating Actual Costing
  - 5.3.2 Creating User-Defined Names for Receipts/Consumption
  - 5.3.3 Assigning User-Defined Names for Receipts/Consumption
  - 5.3.4 Activating Actual Cost Component Split
  - 5.3.5 Activating WIP at Actual Cost
- 5.4 Account Determination
  - 5.4.1 Cost/Price Differences for the Material Ledger
  - 5.4.2 Materials Management Exchange Rate Differences
  - 5.4.3 Revaluation of Other Consumables
  - 5.4.4 Accruals and Deferred Accounts for the Material Ledger
  - 5.4.5 Activity Price Differences
  - 5.4.6 Material Ledger Cost Center Absorption
  - 5.4.7 WIP from Price Differences: Materials
  - 5.4.8 WIP from Price Differences: Activity Types
  - 5.4.9 Differences of Canceled WIP: Materials
  - 5.4.10 Differences of Cancelled WIP: Activity Types
- 5.5 Summary
6 Actual Costing Run and Analysis
- 6.1 Actual Costing Cockpit
- 6.2 Actual Costing Run
  - 6.2.1 Setup
  - 6.2.2 Selection
  - 6.2.3 Preparation
  - 6.2.4 Settlement
  - 6.2.5 Post Closing
  - 6.2.6 Mark Prices
  - 6.2.7 Additional Options
- 6.3 Alternative Valuation Run
  - 6.3.1 Executing the Alternative Valuation Run
  - 6.3.2 BAdI for Alternative Valuation Run
- 6.4 Material Price Analysis
  - 6.4.1 Navigating the Material Price Analysis
  - 6.4.2 Price Determination Structure
  - 6.4.3 Price History
  - 6.4.4 Material Price Analysis for Old SAP ERP Data
  - 6.4.5 Actual Cost Components
  - 6.4.6 Valuated Quantity Structure
- 6.5 Activity Consumption Analysis
- 6.6 Value Flow Monitor
  - 6.6.1 Not Distributed Differences
  - 6.6.2 Not Allocated Differences
  - 6.6.3 Using the Value Flow Monitor
- 6.7 General Ledger Postings Made by the Material Ledger
  - 6.7.1 Closing Document of the Material Ledger
  - 6.7.2 Analyzing General Ledger Postings Made by the Material Ledger
- 6.8 Summary
7 Actual Costing and Peripheral Transactions
- 7.1 Changing Standard Cost Mid-Month
  - 7.1.1 Restriction on Changing the Standard Cost Mid-Month in SAP ERP
  - 7.1.2 Changing the Standard Cost Mid-Month in SAP S/4HANA
- 7.2 Debiting/Crediting Material
  - 7.2.1 Debiting/Crediting a Material Directly
  - 7.2.2 Defining Reasons for the Price Change
  - 7.2.3 Debiting/Crediting a Material with an Alternative General Ledger Account
  - 7.2.4 Debiting/Crediting a Material to a Specific Cost Component
- 7.3 Distributing Consumption Variances
  - 7.3.1 Activating Distribution of Consumption Variances
  - 7.3.2 Distributing Differences for Materials
  - 7.3.3 Distributing Differences for Activities
- 7.4 Manually Changing Cost Components
  - 7.4.1 Price Difference Account for Cost Component Change
  - 7.4.2 Changing the Cost Component
- 7.5 Subsequent Activation of Actual Cost Component Split
- 7.6 Deactivating Statistical Moving Average Price
- 7.7 Summary
8 Parallel Cost of Goods Manufactured
- 8.1 What Is Parallel Cost of Goods Manufactured?
- 8.2 Activating the Business Function
- 8.3 Maintaining the Valuation View
- 8.4 Defining Ledgers and Accounting Principles
- 8.5 Configuring Parallel Valuation
- 8.6 Calculating a Parallel Activity Rate
  - 8.6.1 Calculating the Depreciation in Different Accounting Principles
  - 8.6.2 Posting Activity Consumption to a Production Order
- 8.7 Calculating with Multiple Costing Runs
  - 8.7.1 Actual Costing Run
  - 8.7.2 Alternative Valuation Run
- 8.8 Summary
9 Balance Sheet Valuation
- 9.1 What Is Balance Sheet Valuation?
- 9.2 Configuring Balance Sheet Valuation
  - 9.2.1 Activating FIFO/LIFO Valuation
  - 9.2.2 Defining Valuation Level
  - 9.2.3 Defining FIFO/LIFO-Relevant Movement Types
  - 9.2.4 Defining FIFO/LIFO Methods
  - 9.2.5 Configuring FIFO/LIFO Valuation Areas
  - 9.2.6 Defining LIFO Layer Versions
  - 9.2.7 Defining Document Types for the Lowest Value Method
  - 9.2.8 Defining Movement Types for the Lowest Value Method
  - 9.2.9 Defining the Key Figure Scheme
  - 9.2.10 Setting Up Valuation Alternatives
  - 9.2.11 Defining the FIFO Variant
- 9.3 FIFO Valuation
  - 9.3.1 Creating a Purchase Order and Goods Receipt
  - 9.3.2 Activating a FIFO Material
  - 9.3.3 Calculating Periodic Receipt Values
  - 9.3.4 Calculating the FIFO Price
- 9.4 LIFO Valuation
  - 9.4.1 Creating Purchase Orders and Goods Receipts
  - 9.4.2 Activating a LIFO Material
  - 9.4.3 Calculating the LIFO Price
- 9.5 Lowest Value Determination
- 9.6 Using Balance Sheet Valuation in Actual Costing
- 9.7 Summary
10 The Material Ledger and Peripheral Applications
- 10.1 Split Valuation
  - 10.1.1 Configuring Split Valuation
  - 10.1.2 Creating a Material Master with Multiple Valuation Types
  - 10.1.3 Procuring Split Valuated Materials
  - 10.1.4 Calculating Actual Cost for Split Valuated Material
- 10.2 Actual Costing for Make-to-Order Products
  - 10.2.1 Make-to-Order Production Process
  - 10.2.2 Calculating the Actual Cost
- 10.3 Daily Actual Costs
  - 10.3.1 Creating Actual Costing Runs for Future Periods
  - 10.3.2 Creating Variants for Actual Costing Steps
  - 10.3.3 Creating and Sequencing Background Jobs
- 10.4 Exchange Rate Differences
  - 10.4.1 Configuring the Treatment of Exchange Rate Differences
  - 10.4.2 Purchasing a Material with Exchange Rate Differences
  - 10.4.3 Exchange Rate Differences in the Material Price Analysis
- 10.5 Actual Costing across Company Codes
  - 10.5.1 Cross-Company Scenario
  - 10.5.2 Setting Up Actual Costing across Company Codes
  - 10.5.3 Material Price Analysis before the Actual Costing Run
  - 10.5.4 Material Price Analysis after the Actual Costing Run
- 10.6 Margin Analysis
  - 10.6.1 COGS Account Split by Cost Components
  - 10.6.2 Production Variance Account Split by Variance Categories
- 10.7 Stock in Transit
  - 10.7.1 Stock-in-Transit Scenarios
  - 10.7.2 Configuring Stock in Transit for Logistics Processes
  - 10.7.3 Configuring Stock in Transit for Accounting
  - 10.7.4 Analyzing Stock-in-Transit Postings
- 10.8 Summary
11 Reporting
- 11.1 ABAP List Viewer Reports
  - 11.1.1 Prices and Inventory Values
  - 11.1.2 Materials with Largest Moving Price Differences
  - 11.1.3 Materials with Highest Inventory Value
  - 11.1.4 Display of WIP for Actual Costs
- 11.2 Drilldown Reports
  - 11.2.1 Standard Drilldown Reports
  - 11.2.2 Enhanced Drilldown Reports
- 11.3 SAP Fiori Applications
  - 11.3.1 Trial Balance App
  - 11.3.2 Material Inventory Values Apps
- 11.4 Core Data Services Views
- 11.5 Summary
12 Conclusion
- 12.1 What You’ve Learned
- 12.2 Potential Areas for Innovation
Appendices
- A Transitioning to the Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA
  - A.1 Existing SAP Customers
  - A.2 New SAP Customers
  - A.3 Changing the Price Determination
  - A.4 Material Ledger HelpDesk
  - A.5 Summary
- B General Ledger Line-Item Texts from Material Ledger Postings
- C Material Ledger Comparison: SAP ERP versus SAP S/4HANA
- D General Control Parameters for Actual Costing
- E Bibliography
- F The Author
Index

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