SAP Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM)

Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM) is an article provided by SAP AG. This SAP MM guide is intended for SAP System Administrators, Materials Management (MM) developer and SAP technology Consultants.
This SAP MM article explains you about material stocks management on value basis, planning and entering documentation of all goods movement and carrying out physical inventory. Moreover this SAP MM Inventory article explains you planning and issuing goods, material scrapping, stock maintaining, physical inventory process, batch handling and more.
Following are the few topics covered in this SAP MM document.
  • Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM)
  • Integration of Inventory Management in the Logistics System
  • Goods Movement
  • The Document Concept
  • The Movement Type Concept
  • Results of a Good Movement in the System
  • Changing a Material Document
  • Displaying a Material Document
  • Cancelling a Material Document
  • Copying a Material Document
  • Goods Receipt/Issue Slip Numbers
  • Serial Numbers in Goods Movements
  • Missing Parts Check
  • Goods Movements via Shipping
  • Material Block (Material En queue) for Goods Movements
  • Goods Receipt
  • Planning Goods Receipts
  • Goods Receipts for Purchase Orders
  • Goods Receipts for Orders
  • Other Goods Receipts
  • Goods Issue
  • Goods Issues - General
  • Goods Issue Without Reference
  • Entering Material for Scrapping
  • Drawing of a Sample
  • Goods Issue With Reference to a Reservation
  • Goods Issue with Reference to an Order
  • Results of a Goods Issue Posting
  • Availability Check
  • Dynamic Stock Balance Display
  • Storage Location and Batch Selection
  • Reversing a Planned Goods Issue
  • Return Delivery
  • Return Deliveries from Warehouse or Consumption
  • Return Deliveries from Goods Receipt Blocked Stock
  • Return Delivery in Goods-Receipt-Based Invoice Verification
  • Subsequent Delivery
  • Stock Transfer and Transfer Posting
  • Transfer Postings and Stock Transfers: Overview
  • Planning Stock Transfers and Transfer Postings via Reservations
  • Stock Transfers From Storage Location to Storage Location
  • Stock Transfer From Plant to Plant
  • Stock Transfer from Company Code to Company Code
  • Transfer Postings From Material to Material
  • Entering a Transfer Posting From Stock to Stock
  • Reservation
  • Creating a Reservation
  • Creating a Reservation Using a Reference Document
  • Displaying a Reservation
  • Processing Reservations
  • Changing a Reservation
  • Managing Reservations
  • Physical Inventory
  • Physical Inventory Process
  • Carrying Out the Physical Inventory
  • Serial Numbers in Physical Inventory
  • Information on Physical Inventory
  • Account Activity During Posting of Inventory Differences
  • Cycle Counting Method of Physical Inventory
  • Batch Handling
  • Working with Batches
  • Batch Status Management
  • Goods Receipts of Batch Material
  • Goods Issue of Batch Material
  • Stock Transfers and Transfer Postings of Batch Material
  • Batch Classification
  • Batch Determination
  • Goods Movements of Split-Valuated Material
  • Stock Determination
  • Creating Stock Determination Strategies
  • Starting Stock Determination
  • Print Functions
  • Output Types
  • Printing Output
  • Generating Output for Goods Movement
  • Processing Output
  • Printer Control
  • Multiple Printout of Goods Receipt/Issue Slips
  • Printing Purchase Orders With Multiple Account Assignment
  • Archiving
  • Reporting in Inventory Management
  • Storing Documents
  • Handling Units in Inventory Management
  • Material Master (LO-MD-MM)
  • Corporate Structure
  • Material Master Records
  • Material Types
  • User Departments (Main Data)
  • Automatic Creation of Storage Data
  • Stocks in the Material Master Record
  • Units of Measure
  • Inventory Valuation
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