Non-stop SAP for your non-stop Business
Non-stop SAP for your non-stop Business
Inventory management is a realm unique to every company. In most companies, there are always two types of materials namely ‘Stock’ and ‘Non Stock’. Materials that are constantly kept in stock are, as the name suggests, ‘Stock’ materials. Stock materials are all valued and have a written material master record.
On the other hand, non stock materials are those which are purchased and consumed immediately. Their shelf life is actually less. These materials may or may not valuated.
The information about stock and non-stock materials is mainly required when initiating a purchase order. In Non Stock purchase, order there are two important data elements associated with it. These are:
Companies want to restrict the authority of certain confidential material’s information only to particular employees who are initiating the purchase order. Therefore, they want the employees to have their own particular credentials in order to permit them to initiate the purchase order. Now, the employees can only access the transactions that they have made with no other access route. The authorities also wanted to restrict the amount each person would spend on the purchase order. But standard SAP does not allow this feature.
When excess information flows to various channels, it can be detrimental to the data security of the company. Hence, it is important to restrict information flow. It is done:
Organizations use hard copy to maintain such material data. This was not feasible as it is difficult to maintain the physical data. They create G/L accounts for every employee who was responsible for initiating the purchase order. Such an approach is laborious as well as time consuming.
Standard SAP facilitates us with default G/L in SAP screen but anybody can easily edit or update it. Companies create separate G/L accounts but such a methodology does not work in Standard SAP.
We undertook an enhancement in the SAP standard screen. This was done by making a combination of GL account and Cost center and associating a particular user id to it. Therefore, each user had his own credentials to access this information.
There are many ground level benefits of this tweaking. The primary being:
When inventories are managed with improved SAP features, companies save not only time but also human resources. Our consultants work their way out of such standard SAP issues only to help firms improve their bottom line.
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