Understanding Process Steps and Business Roles for Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Process steps for procurement of materials with variant configuration
  • Identify business roles for procurement of materials with variant configuration

Process Steps for Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration

Applicable Process Steps

  • Create a customer sales order (optionally based on a sales quotation) for a product configured per customer requirement .

  • Identify and create a purchase order for required configurable material for the supplier.

  • Post goods receipt and invoice for payment to supplier.

  • Process delivery and billing to customer.

Business Roles for Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration

Relevant Business Roles

  • Product Configuration Modeler

  • Configuration Expert – business configuration

  • Purchaser

How to Identify the Business Catalog(s) mapped to a Business Role and the Fiori Application(s) Mapped to a Business Catalog

  1. Log into the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.

  2. Select the Manage Business Roles application from the Launchpad.

  3. Select a Business Role.

  4. Select the Assigned Business Catalogs tab to view the standard Business Catalogs assigned to the standard Business Role.

  5. Select a Business Catalog.

  6. Select the Catalog Description tab to view the Functional Description, Authorization Criteria, and Associated Catalogs information.

  7. Select the Applications tab to view the Fiori apps mapped to the Business Catalog.

Note

To customize Business Roles, use the Create From Template option in the Maintain Business Roles application to create a copy of an SAP Standard Business Role for editing.

Caution

Do not edit SAP Standard Business Roles directly.

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