SAP MM (Materials Management) is a module in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) that gives organizations materials, stock and distribution center administration abilities. The essential objective of SAP MM is to ensure that materials are constantly kept in legitimate amounts and without deficiencies or holes in the association's store network. It likewise assists supply with fastening experts and other SAP clients complete the acquiring of merchandise in a convenient and financially savvy route and to have the option to manage everyday changes in these procedures.
One of the basic modules in SAP ECC, SAP MM is a piece of SAP ECC's coordinations capacity and assumes an essential job in a producer's production network. It coordinates with other ECC segments like Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management (QM), Finance and Controlling (FICO) and Human Capital Management (HCM).
Backing for SAP ECC is planned to stop in 2025, so, all in all it will be supplanted by SAP S/4HANA. It's uncertain from SAP how the elements of MM will progress to S/4HANA, in spite of the fact that the more current stage has segments to address the center issues behind MM.
SAP MM submodules
SAP MM's capacities incorporate material administration, acquirement process the executives, ace information the board (material and merchant ace), stock administration, material prerequisites arranging and receipt confirmation.
These MM submodules have capacities that perform explicit business forms for those modules. These are executed through exchanges, the strategy that SAP ECC uses to finish business forms. MM likewise bolsters different coordinations works that require materials data, for example, plant support and task the board.
Business advantages of SAP MM
Everything in MM spins around ace information, which is put away and controlled in unified ace information tables. Ace information types incorporate materials ace, work focus, bill of materials and directing. The ace information is utilized to make value-based information in SAP ECC.
For instance, when a generation request is made in PP, it utilizes ace information from MM about the crude materials expected to deliver the completed item, which will in this manner be utilized to make a business request in SD.
