Material Management in SAP BI

Materials Management:

The Materials Management (MM) module is a part of logistics and it helps in managing end to end procurement and logistics business process, It is fully integrated with the other modules (SD, FI, CO, PM, QM, MW) of the SAP System.

MM module contains many phases of materials management such as materials planning and control, purchasing, goods receiving, inventory, invoice verification module.

SAP MM Flow:

Purchase Requisition: First the customer prepares the purchase requisition with required goods.

Request for Quotation: As a customer we need to send RFQ to different vendors.

Vendor Evaluation:  Once we receive the quotations from different vendors as a customer we analysis all the quotations and finally we select one vendor.

Purchase Order:  After vendor evaluation as a customer we need to raise the purchase order.

Goods Receipt: Here we receive the goods with goods receipt as a customer we need to analysis the goods receipt.

Invoice Verification: Once we receive the goods and bills from the vendor as a customer we need to verify all the good, if there is any problem in the goods then the customer informs to vendor.

Finance:  Once we receive the goods with billing customer finance guy will interact with the vendor finance guy for finance settlements.

MM Extractions

MM extraction is the combination of both LO Extraction and Standard Extractions.

 The data flow is as shown below

Pre-requisites:

1. Make sure that RFC Connection exists between ECC system and BI system
2. Delete the data from setup tables for ‘03’ application on ECC side (LBWG)
3. Perform the business content installation for info cube ‘0IC_C03’ on BI side

Steps for MM Extraction:

Go to ECC Side:

1. Go to RSA5, find the data source 2LIS_03_BX and activate it (If activated
   successfully, it can be seen in RSA6)
2. Go to LBWE, activate the data sources 2LIS_03_BF and 2LIS_03_UM

  Go to SAP BI side:

  

1. Go to RSA1
2. Go to ‘Source Systems’ section, right click on ECC source system and select ‘Display data source tree’
3. Right click on ‘MM’ application component and select ‘Replicate Metadata’

Working with data source 2LIS_03_BX:

Go to ECC side:

1. Fill the setup tables using tcode MCNB

Go to SAP BI side:

  

1. Right click on data source and select ‘Create Info package’ (you will observe only ‘Generate Initial Status’ in update tab page of info package), load the data till PSA
2. Right click on data source and select ‘Create Transformation’, give the target as ‘Info cube’ with technical name (0IC_C03) and create necessary transformation rule types
3. Activate the transformation
4. Right click and select ‘Create DTP’ to load the  data into info cube
5. Go to ‘Collapse’ tab page and do not select ‘No marker update’ checkbox and click on
   ‘Release’ button

  

Working with data source 2LIS_03_BF:

Go to ECC side:

1. Delete the data from setup tables for ‘03’ application (LBWG)
2. Fill the setup tables using tcode OLI1BW. Select option ‘Posting date’, give posting date if required and click on ‘Execute’

Go to SAP BI side:

  

1. Right click on data source and select ‘Create Info package’ , go to update tab page and select ‘Initialization’ option
2. Right click on data source and select ‘Create Transformation’, give the target as ‘Info cube’ with technical name (0IC_C03) and create necessary transformation rule types
3. Activate the transformation
4. Right click and select ‘Create DTP’ to load the data into info cube
5. Go to ‘Collapse’ tab page and select ‘No marker update’ checkbox and click on ‘Release’ button
6. Create delta Info package to load the delta records till PSA
7. Create another DTP to load the delta records into info cube, go to ‘Collapse’ tab page and do no select ‘No marker update’ checkbox and click on ‘Release’

  

Working with data source 2LIS_03_UM:

Go to ECC side:

1. Delete the data from setup tables for ‘03’ application (LBWG)
2. Fill the setup tables using tcode OLIZBW. Give ‘Company Code’, select option ‘Posting date’, give posting date if required and click on ‘Execute’

Go to SAP BI side:

  

1. Right click on data source and select ‘Create Info package’ , go to update tab page and select ‘Initialization’ option
2. Right click on data source and select ‘Create Transformation’, give the target as ‘Info cube’ with technical name (0IC_C03) and create necessary transformation rule types
3. Activate the transformation
4. Right click and select ‘Create DTP’ to load the data into info cube
5. Go to ‘Collapse’ tab page and select ‘No marker update’ checkbox and click on ‘Release’ button
6. Create delta Info package to load the delta records till PSA
7. Create another DTP to load the delta records into info cube, go to ‘Collapse’ tab page and do no select ‘No marker update’ checkbox and click on ‘Release’