Unlock the potential of the Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA with this comprehensive guide. Move beyond the basics and get the step-by-step instructions you need to configure and run actual costing, group valuation, profit center valuation, and more. Consult detailed screenshots and expert guidance as you dive deep into the major processes, specialized scenarios, and reporting and analytics. Master the Material Ledger from end to end! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Configuration Set up your Material Ledger processes, step by step. From account determination to parallel currencies to transfer pricing, understand how to configure your SAP S/4HANA system to suit your business. b. Key Functionality See the Material Ledger in action! Learn how to perform actual costing runs, use transfer pricing with group valuation and profit center valuation, complete balance sheet valuation, and more. c. Reporting Unpack your Material Ledger data. Discover your reporting tools: SAP Fiori apps, CDS views, and more. Then see how actual costing, parallel valuation, and inventory trend analytics can help you understand material value flows. Highlights include: 1) Actual costing 2) Parallel currencies 3) Group valuation 4) Profit center valuation 5) Parallel cost of goods manufactured 6) Balance sheet valuation 7) Peripheral applications 8) Reporting 9) Migration

The methods used for inventory valuation have been transformed with SAP S/4HANA. The material ledger is now integrated with the Universal Journal and is the sole means for valuing materials. This book covers how valuation is managed in up to three different currencies, in parallel, without requiring the actual costing functionality. Learn how the material ledger interacts with the Universal Journal and how to configure the currencies used for parallel valuation. Investigate various valuation approaches and see how legal, group, and profit center valuation views can be used to help understand company profitability. Be guided through the configuration steps that enable these multiple valuation approaches. For those who are using or intending to use actual costing, learn how the actual cost is determined and the steps required to set this up to achieve maximum benefit. Find out how the actual costing run works and how alternative valuation runs can be used to provide additional information about inventory values. Review the optional business functions FIN_CO_COGM for parallel valuation of cost of goods manufactured, and LOG_MM_SIT for intercompany stock-in-transit and actual costing to see how they can be used for additional analysis of inventory. Investigate the different forms of balance sheet valuation and how they interact with the material ledger. - Valuation in parallel currencies, with and without transfer pricing - Defining currencies and using them with the material ledger - Valuation using standard cost, moving average cost, and actual cost - Balance sheet valuation methods

What will your financial transformation look like? This introduction to SAP S/4HANA Finance shows you next-generation finance in the new suite: financial accounting, management accounting, risk management, financial planning, and more. Consider how each process works in SAP S/4HANA, and explore the SAP Fiori apps that help you meet today's business user and reporting requirements. From previewing project planning to navigating deployment options, take your first steps toward financial transformation! a. The Basics Explore financial transformation with SAP's new platform. Discover the system, the database, the UI, and more--all from a business perspective. Then, understand how an SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation would impact your organization. b. Core Processes Financial transformation affects every process. See what SAP S/4HANA does for management accounting, treasury and risk management, financial close, consolidation, reporting, and more. c. From Planning to Go-Live Get a head start on project preparation! See how SAP S/4HANA Finance fits into your IT landscape, and explore your deployment options: on-premise, hybrid, or cloud. Highlights Include: 1) Universal Journal 2) SAP HANA 3) Management accounting 4) Financial close and consolidation 5) Reporting and analytics 6) Treasury and Risk Management 7) SAP Fiori applications 8) Deployment and adoption 9) Financial transformation 10) SAP S/4HANA

Keep your internal costs straight! Get the complete picture on valuation and costing with the Material Ledger in this book, from master data setup and configuration to revaluations. Using a practical approach, helpful steps, and detailed case studies, you'll learn how to set up and configure the Material Ledger for several scenarios, use its different functions for calculations, reports, and valuation scenarios, and much more.

Materials management has transitioned to SAP S/4HANA--let us help you do the same! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage your critical processes in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then get step-by-step instructions for defining the processes you need, from creating purchase orders and receiving goods to running MRP and using batch management. The new MM is here! Material master data Business partner master data Batch management Purchasing Quotation management Material requirements planning (MRP) Inventory management Goods issue/goods receipt (GI/GR) Invoicing Valuation Document management Reporting

This book offers a practical guide to SAP Material Ledger functionality and provides a solid foundation for understanding product costing as it relates to SAP Material Ledger (ML) and actual costing. Solidify your understanding of how SAP ML integrates with SAP FI, MM, PP, and SD. Walk step by step through a practical example of a complete manufacturing process and troubleshoot actual costing closing at month end. Explore SAP Material Ledger and actual costing configuration and dive into the prerequisites for multilevel actual costing runs by exploring the different types of cost variances. With this practical guide you will also obtain a list of SAP Material Ledger tables to support your product cost with material ledger reporting. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers up to speed on the fundamentals. - SAP Material Ledger functionality and key integration points - The most important SAP Material Ledger reports, including CKM3N - Tips for configuring, implementing, and using SAP ML effectively - Detailed steps for executing a multilevel actual costing run

Preparing consolidated financial statements for an enterprise with a parent and one or more subsidiaries requires a detailed review of underlying transactions in order to properly reflect results and financial position. For large, integrated, and multinational organizations, likely with millions of transactions, it is imperative that the financial accounting software facilitate this process. This expertly written guide focuses on leveraging SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. Explore key functionality and how the universal journal has led to the evolution of the group reporting solution. Using a detailed case study, the author discusses configuration and master data and walks the reader through the period-end process for consolidation and explores reports using financial transactions that have already been entered into SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. Explore reports delivered with SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting. This book is targeted at both finance professionals and the functional consultants who perform the configuration and execution of processes for preparing consolidated financial statements. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book covers:

- SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting and the universal journal
- Configuration and master data
- Period-end process for consolidation
- Reporting and analysis

Preparation -- Installation and upgrade -- Customizing for the general ledger -- Customizing for new asset accounting -- Customizing for controlling -- Migration of house bank accounts -- Data migration -- Post migration -- Testing and migration results -- New cash management -- Sap integrated business planning for finance -- SAP Fiori applications -- Impact on general ledger accounting -- Impact on new asset accounting -- Impact on controlling -- Impact on cost center accounting -- Impact on profit center accounting -- Impact on profitability analysis -- Impact on period end closing -- Impact on cash and bank management -- Appendix

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to SAP ERP Controlling (CO). You will learn the basic fundamentals of the organizational structure, master data, and functions of SAP Controlling, including overhead controlling, product costing, month-end closing, and reporting. If you would like to understand the basic fundamentals of SAP Controlling, with examples based on a case study approach, this book is for you! Using a fictional chocolate manufacturing company case study, you will learn fundamentals based on several day-in-the-life scenarios of various key functions such as cost planning, production controlling, actual costing, and information systems. Get detailed information on how SAP CO integrates with other SAP modules and obtain insight into the different functional areas typically used in manufacturing organizations. Dive into SAP ERP master data elements and get tips on how to maintain consistent and accurate data. Review the various planning methods available and get an overview of cost center planning, including overhead planning and labor cost planning. Understand how SAP Material Ledger can be used to accurately determine costs. Identify how actual costs are booked and absorbed. By using a detailed case study, practical examples, tips, and screenshots the author brings readers new to SAP CO quickly up to speed on the fundamentals. - Cost center and product cost planning, actual cost flow - Best practices for cost absorption using Product Cost Controlling - Month-end closing activities in SAP Controlling - Examples and screenshots based on a case study approach

SAP S/4HANA brings change to your routine controlling activities. Perform your key tasks in the new environment with this user guide! Get click-by-click instructions for your daily and monthly overhead controlling tasks, and then dive deeper into processes such as make-to-stock/make-to-order scenarios, margin analysis, and investment management. Finally, instructions for intercompany transactions and reporting make this your all-in-one resource! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Master Data See how your financials data is organized in SAP S/4HANA for management accounting. Understand the key reporting entities, from general ledger accounts and cost centers to specific master data for margin analysis. b. Functional Tasks Walk through your core controlling activities for overhead costs, manufacturing costs, sales costs, investments, and intercompany transactions. Learn how to assess each data type with step-by-step guidance and tips from the experts. c. Reporting Discover the reports that gather your cost data for assessment. Get insight into SAP S/4HANA innovations that impact reporting, including the SAP Fiori interface, the virtual data model, global accounting hierarchies, and more. Highlights include: 1) Organizational structures 2) Master data 3) Overhead controlling 4) Production controlling 5) Service controlling 6) Margin analysis 7) Event-based revenue recognition 8) Investment controlling 9) Intercompany scenarios 10) Reporting 11) Universal Journal 12) User interfaces (UI)