FOUNDATIONS
Set the procurement context
Establish the material, organizational, supplier, and purchase-order foundations that every P2P event relies on.
How do material, inventory, MRP, and organization shape P2P?
Connect procurement to master data, planning demand, stock, valuation, and enterprise responsibility.
Open topicSUPPLIERHow is a supplier represented in SAP S/4HANA?
Separate the leading Business Partner identity from supplier roles, organizational extensions, partner functions, payment, and purchasing data.
Open topicOBJECT MODELHow is a purchase order put together?
See how organizational context, header data, item behavior, account assignment, schedules, and indicators work together.
Open topicDETERMINEHow do conditions, confirmations, workflow, and output shape a PO?
Trace price determination, supplier acknowledgement, approval, and controlled communication without mixing classic and S/4HANA approaches.
Open topicCORE P2P
Run the request-to-settle spine
Follow the controlled procurement sequence from a business need to cleared supplier liability.
How does a requisition control demand?
Connect business need, account assignment, completeness, approval, and conversion.
Open topicSOURCEHow are sources selected and commitments approved?
Trace agreements, source rules, authority, and the decision trail.
Open topicCOMMITWhat does a purchase order control?
Understand the supplier commitment, terms, tolerances, workflow, and output.
Open topicRECEIVEHow is ordered value received?
Follow goods receipt, service acceptance, stock, GR/IR, and open quantity.
Open topicVERIFYHow is a supplier invoice matched?
Compare commitment, received evidence, liability, tolerances, and blocks.
Open topicSETTLEHow are supplier liabilities paid and cleared?
Understand proposals, approvals, bank selection, media, and reconciliation.
Open topicTRACE & FINANCE
Explain the evidence and financial result
Trace the full document story and understand how P2P events determine their Finance postings.
How do you trace the complete P2P story?
Reconcile demand, commitment, receipt, invoice, accounting, payment, and exceptions.
Open topicACCOUNT DETERMINATIONHow do P2P events reach Finance?
Trace how valuation, transaction keys, and account mapping turn goods movements and invoice events into explainable FI postings.
Open topicEXTENSIONS
Apply specialised procurement scenarios
Extend the core spine for inventory valuation, internal transfers, subcontracting, returns, and intercompany procurement.
How do batches and Material Ledger extend inventory control?
Separate optional batch traceability from mandatory S/4HANA Material Ledger foundations and optional actual costing.
Open topicADVANCED EXTENSIONHow do STO, subcontracting, returns, and intercompany procurement work?
Separate internal stock movement, component provision, supplier returns, affiliated-company trade, and cross-system integration from the external-supplier spine.
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