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SAP MM Consultant Roles & Tasks

An SAP MM consultant has several key roles and responsibilities during an implementation or support project. These include understanding business requirements, configuring the organizational structure and master data, setting up pricing and taxation structures, releasing purchase documents, testing integrations, training users, and providing post go-live support. The consultant is responsible for troubleshooting issues, making configuration changes, testing change requests, and interacting with clients and other module consultants. Some of the main SAP MM configurations include defining the enterprise structure, general logistics settings, consumption-based planning, and purchasing parameters.

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SAP MM Consultant Roles & Tasks

An SAP MM consultant has several key roles and responsibilities during an implementation or support project. These include understanding business requirements, configuring the organizational structure and master data, setting up pricing and taxation structures, releasing purchase documents, testing integrations, training users, and providing post go-live support. The consultant is responsible for troubleshooting issues, making configuration changes, testing change requests, and interacting with clients and other module consultants. Some of the main SAP MM configurations include defining the enterprise structure, general logistics settings, consumption-based planning, and purchasing parameters.

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Roles and Responsibilities Of MM

Consultant
SAP MM Consultant Roles for Implementation Project
During implementation projects, an SAP MM consultant has important roles and
responsibilities:

• Understanding key business requirements, preparing AS-IS and TO-BE


documents and signing off with users to have business blueprint document
• Building an organization structure of material management and setting up
related configuration such as valuation area plants, purchase organization,
warehouse structure, storage location, etc.
• Finalizing the material and purchasing groups, payment terms, pricing
procedures, and Incoterms
• Pricing procedures are set by defining the access sequence and condition type
• To define and set up a taxation structure
• Finalizing and validating number ranges for vendor master, material master,
and having all purchase and inventory documents in place
• Setting up split valuation that is based on different valuation categories such
as grade and source of materials, country or origin, etc.
• To configure the release procedure to purchase documents such as purchase
requisition and purchase order
• Making preparations for internal and document testing
• Preparing master data templates for different objects like vendor master,
material master, Info-records, excise master, purchase order, and source list
• Negotiating with the vendors to obtain the best quality at the best price,
ensuring the best buy
• Vendor development to have alternate sources of supply of raw materials 
• Testing integration with other modules like SD, PP, and FI/CO
• To prepare the cut-over strategy for Material Management object
• To prepare the user manual and impart training to various business process
owners
• Preparing for project Go-live and post Go-Live support
SAP MM Consultation for Support Project
•

The role of an MM consultant does not end with implementation project; it


extends to support functionalities as well. The roles and responsibilities are
•

• Interacting with clients through calls, net meetings, and emails


• Consultant is responsible to troubleshoot various issues in the SAP system and
provide support
• To handle tasks and tickets, and is responsible for closing the same within pre-
defined Service Level Agreements
• Execute analysis and resolution of production support calls
• Execute necessary changes in configuration
• To raise Change Requests (CRs) and providing functional specifications for
the same
• To prepare test data to test Change Requests
• To test and validate Change Requests, and prepare test results
• Performing regression testing
• Interaction with consultants of other modules
SAP MM Configurations Include:

1. ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE - DEFINITION


DEFINE VALUATION LEVEL
DEFINE PLANT
MAINTAIN STORAGE LOCATION
MAINTAIN PURCHASING ORGANIZATION
2. ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE ASSIGNMENTS
ASSIGN PLANT TO COMPANY CODE
ASSIGN PURCHASING ORGANIZATION TO COMPANY CODE
ASSIGN PURCHASING ORGANIZATION TO P
LANT
ASSIGN STANDARD PURCHASING
ORGANIZATION TO PLANT
3. GENERAL LOGISTICS
ASSIGN FIELDS TO FIELDS SELECTION GROUPS
MAINTAIN FIELD SELECTION FOR DATA SCREENS
MAINTAIN COMPANY CODES FOR MATERIALS
MANAGEMENT
DEFINE ATTRIBUTES OF MATERIAL TYPES
DEFINE NUMBER RANGES FOR EACH MATERIAL TYPES
DEFINE ATTRIBUTES OF SYSTEM MESSAGES
DEFINE MATERIAL GROUPS
DEFINE EXTERNAL MATERIAL GROUPS
INITIALIZE PERIOD
4. MANAGEMENT – CONSUMPTION BASED PLANNING
ACTIVATE MRP FOR MRP AREAS
DEFINE MRP AREAS
5. MATERIALS MANAGEMENT – PURCHASING
DEFINE ATTRIBUTES OF SYSTEM MESSAGES
DEFINE PURCHASING VALUE KEYS
ENTRY AIDS FOR ITEMS WITHOUT A M
ATERIAL MASTER
CREATE PURCHASING GROUPS
DEFINE DOCUMENT TYPES (RFQ/QUOTATION
DEFINE TEXT TYPES FOR HEADER TEXTS (RFQ/QUOTATIONS
DEFINE COPYING RULES FOR HEADER TEXTS
(RFQ/QUOTATIONS

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