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Material Management (MM)<br />

Chapter 13 ■ Integration of FI with Other SAP ERP Modules<br />

Moving materials (such as goods issued and received) from one stage to another takes place in the MM<br />

module and those actions need to be posted to the FI. To represent the movement of these items in FI,<br />

they have to be assigned to G/L accounts in the FI module in the Valuation class. The Valuation class<br />

integrates the MM actions to FI and determines the G/L accounts where material movements (such as raw<br />

materials, semi-finished products, and finished products) are posted (Figure 13-2). In order for the system to<br />

automatically post MM transactions, you need to set its specifications in the Valuation class.<br />

Purchase Order<br />

Goods Receipts<br />

Invoice Receipts<br />

etc.<br />

FI-DB<br />

Material<br />

Management<br />

(MM)<br />

Automatic Posts:<br />

Valuation Class -<br />

G/L Accounts<br />

General Ledger<br />

FI<br />

MM-DB<br />

Figure 13-2. How movement of material in MM is posted in FI-DB (the database)<br />

To properly classify your materials, you have to define the Valuation class for every material in the<br />

Valuation class’ fields. SAP supplies standard Valuation classes for this purpose.<br />

You need to configure three settings in order to perform automatic postings from the MM module to FI:<br />

• Valuation class: The Valuation class determines the G/L account group materials<br />

with the same account characteristics even when they are posted at different stages<br />

during material movement. For example, it allows goods receipt of raw materials to<br />

be posted to one G/L account and finished products to another. This is achieved by<br />

assigning different Valuation classes to materials at different stages. For example,<br />

the Valuation class number for Raw Materials is 3000, for Semi-Finished Products is<br />

7900, and for Finished Products it’s 7920.<br />

When creating a material, you must specify a Valuation class in the accounting<br />

data for the material. A material is entered in the accounting data view of the<br />

material master data. As part of your configuration you must also assign a<br />

material type to the Valuation class. This will allow the system to determine<br />

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