SAP Best Practices – Baseline Package (Part – V)

SAP Best Practices – Baseline Package (Part – V)

In the previous post we have seen the documentation available till Preconfigured Processes Sub-section. In this post we will continue our understanding of the Baseline Best Practices Further.

Sub-section: Your Master Data / Section Business Info

This sub-section speaks about the Master Data belonging to Best Practices and has following information:

Make It Your Business

SAP Best Practices delivers standard values for different key areas. These default values allow you to test the business processes without having to create your own master data.

If you want to test the business processes with customized values for specific material or organizational data, you can create this data in your SAP system. SAP Best Practices provides you with detailed step-by-step instructions telling you how to do this, creating your master data for a specific purpose. Go to the Master Data Areas, on the right, to navigate to detailed master data for each particular area.

This Sub-section has one link to a webpage that has more information about Master Data Areas.

Master Data Areas

Click on the link “Master Data Areas” appearing on the page and we will land on a webpage that contains further information on following Master Data Areas:

1. Financials

2. Controlling

3. Internal Order

4. Vendor

5. Customer

6. Purchasing

7. Production

8. Material Creation

9. Extensions

10. Bill of Materials

11. Routing and Master Recipe

12. Variant Configuration

13. Project Systems

14. Sales and Distribution

15. Quality Management

16. Logistics General

17. Human Capital Management

18. Plant Maintenance

19. Customer Services

20. PLM

Each of the above names appearing on the page has link to other webpage which contains various files with regards to the master data relating to the Module. The files are majorly divided into:

Master Data Procedure

which contains the process steps to be followed to create the Master Data and

Master Data Overview

This file contains the Process flow in pictorial form. This file helps us understand the complete flow generally in one page.

These files will form basis for your master data management as they guide you on how to maintain the master data.

We will try to go through the information on all the files under the modules.

Financials

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Accounts and Account Groups

2. Create Assets

3. Segments and Profit Center Data Maintenance

4. Functional Areas Maintenance

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Controlling

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Cost Center and Cost Center Group

2. Maintaining Cost Center Hierarchy

3. Creating Cost Element and Cost Element Group

4. Creating Cost Collector

5. Maintaining Assessment Cycles

6. Creating Standard Cost for Individual Material

7. Creating Activity Type and Group.

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Internal Order

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Internal Order

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Vendor

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Maintaining Vendor Evaluation

2. Creating Vendor Master

3. Creating Scheduling Agreements

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Customer

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Customer Master

2. Creating Sales Price Condition

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Purchasing

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Customer Master

2. Creating Sales Price Condition

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Production

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Maintaining Capacity

2. Creating Work Center

3. Maintaining Work Center Hierarchy

4. Creating Resources for Process Industry

5. Creating Product Group

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Material Creation

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Raw (ROH) Material

2. Creating Semifinished Good (HALB) Material

3. Creating Trading Good (HAWA) Material

4. Creating Finished Good (FERT) Material (non configurable)

5. Creating Finished Good (FERT) Material (configurable)

6. Creating Finished Good (FERT) Material (material variant for configurable material)

7. Creating Engineering Change Number

8. Creating Production Version

9. Creating Service (DIEN) Material

10. Creating Returnables Good (LEIH) Material

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Extension

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Serial/Equipment Number

2. Maintaining Material Master Extensions

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Bill of Materials

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating New Bill of Materials

2. Maintaining Bill of Materials – Configurable Material Link

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Routing and Master Recipe

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Routing

2. Creating Reference Operation Set

3. Maintaining Material Scheduling via Routing

4. Creating Master Recipe

5. Attaching Material Variants Routing to Parent Material Routing

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Variant Configuration

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Configuration Profile

2. Creating Variant Classification

3. Loading BOM Dependencies

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Project System

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

2. Creating Standard Network

3. Allocate Material to Standard Network

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Sales and Distribution

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Output Conditions SD

2. Creating Tax Conditions SD

3. Creating Material determination info record

4. Creating Free Good determination info record

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Quality Management

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Maintaining Catalogs – Create Code Groups and Codes

2. Maintaining Catalogs – Create Selected Sets and Selected Set Codes

3. Creating Master Inspection Characteristic

4. Maintaining Material Specification

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Logistics General

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Batch Classification

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Human Capital Management

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Employee

2. Creating Sales Representative

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Plant Maintenance

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Functional Location

2. Creating Task List

3. Creating Service Master

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

Customer Service

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Service Product

2. Creating Warranty

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

PLM

This Module has following files available for download.

1. Creating Document Info Record

(Click on the above names to navigate you to the webpage to download all the files.)

What Next?

Hopefully this post has added value to your SAP repository and knowledge. Keep reading for more information on the next sub-sections containing loads of information.

Till then have a great day…..

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