Overview Of Pricing Procedure

Pricing procedure in MM module is a way to determine prices in purchasing documents. It give us functionality to assign different calculation types for different needs.

Defining a pricing procedure can be done by creating an access sequence, and assigning it to condition types. Access sequence tells the system where to look for the condition values. It can search multiple condition tables based on our settings. Tables have different priority, and different key fields.
Determination of the pricing procedure is practically assigning the calculation schema to a combination of vendor schema group and purchasing organization schema group. So, you need to enter the vendor schema group on vendor master, and assign schema group to purchasing organization, in order for the system to find the calculation schema to be used in the document.

In order to setup a pricing procedure in purchasing documents, you need access to the customizing features.
IMG path to the available functions:
Transaction SPRO => Materials Management => Purchasing => Conditions => Define Price determ.process

Following functions can be used to maintain the pricing procedure. There are more settings concerning the pricing procedure, but we will cover the most used ones.

"Do’s and Don’ts" of SAP MM Certification

Here is a quick inside on do’s and don’ts of SAP MM Certification from people who have cleared this exam by using our Premium Questions set. 

First Refer the books and go by each word, sentences and get familiar of all the screen that comes while doing exercise. Once you are familiar with all possible terminologies and modules then refer our Premium Question Set and practice as many time you can before you appear in exam (you can refer our preparation plan given here.

You need to complete the chapter end exercises thoroughly at least you expect 7 – 10 questions in your certification exams .

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Don’t loose patience as you will tend to feel that you don’t know anything as exam dates get closer, feel free and relax and sleep at least for 10 hours before exam .

How To Perform Invoice Verification - Purchase

Invoice verification is done via MIRO transaction.

Step 1)

1. Enter transaction code MIRO.
2. Choose invoice as a transaction type.
3. Enter the invoice date.
4. Enter the purchase order number.
5. Hit ENTER.

Step 2)

On Payment tab choose R – invoice verification.

You can always check if the document has any problems.

1. Click Messages button.
2. Review the messages and fix the problems if there are any.

As it is shown on the below screen, I have a warning message that my price is too low, below tolerance limit. It is only a warning message, and it will not stop me from further processing.This message appeared as informational because I manually changed the item 1 price from 28.000 to 22.000! Err, just to show you the message.

How To Release An Invoice - Purchase

An invoice request is blocked for payment until its manually released. You can release the invoice by using t-code MRBR.

Step 1)

1. Execute t-code MRBR.
2. On the initial screen enter the company code and invoice number.
3. Check the release method (release manually if you want to process it in the second screen). This can be done choosing Automatically (please note the difference with automatic release in MIRO transaction being blocked and automatic release in t-code MRBR as those are two different things).
4. Our document has a manual payment block, so we will select that option. Execute.

Step 2)

1. Select the invoice you want to release.
2. Click on the flag icon – release.

You can see that now the invoice has Status field filled with green flag – it means,it is released to FI.

Financial department should now be able to see the invoice ready for payment.

How To Post Goods Receipt - Purchase

Step 1) You can post the goods receipt for a purchase order using transaction code MIGO.

Let’s say we want to do a goods receipt for our purchase order 4500018386.

1. Choose A01 – Goods Receipt.
2. Choose R01 – Purchase Order.
3. Enter your purchase order number.
4. Press ENTER.

 

Step 2)