SAP Business Processes Training Course

Participants can identify the SAP environments, user roles and access conditions supporting business processes.

• Development, quality and production systems within SAP transport landscapes
• SAP Fiori launchpad tiles, business roles and application access
• User roles linked to task responsibilities and organisational assignments
• Segregation-of-duties conflicts between requesting, approving and posting activities
• Workflow routing for approvals, rejections, escalations and delegated tasks
• Production support procedures for incidents, service requests and emergency access

Participants can model SAP organisational units and their relationships to business responsibilities.

• Company codes representing legally separate financial reporting entities
• Controlling areas connecting cost accounting across assigned company codes
• Plants, storage locations and shipping points defining logistics responsibilities
• Sales organisations, distribution channels and divisions structuring commercial operations
• Purchasing organisations and purchasing groups assigning procurement accountability
• Organisational assignments checked against legal, operational and reporting requirements

Participants can define core master data and governance controls for integrated SAP processing.

• Business partner records for customers, suppliers and shared relationship data
• Material master views supporting procurement, inventory, production and sales
• Chart of accounts, general ledger accounts and posting controls
• Cost centres, profit centres and internal orders for accountability
• Master-data ownership, approval workflow and change-log requirements
• Data-quality rules for duplicates, mandatory fields and valid organisational assignments

Participants can create an SAP-ready process map and requirements specification.

• SIPOC analysis defining suppliers, inputs, process outputs and customers
• BPMN 2.0 maps showing roles, systems, decisions and exception paths
• Business requirements separated from configuration choices and technical specifications
• Process pain points classified by delay, error, control or cost
• RACI matrix assigning process ownership, approval and support responsibilities
• Requirements traceability matrix linking needs, configuration, tests and acceptance criteria

Participants can trace and design the SAP order-to-cash process from customer setup through payment.

• Customer master data, credit limits and sales-area assignments
• Sales quotation, sales order and availability-check document flow
• Delivery creation, picking, packing and goods-issue inventory posting
• Billing documents generating customer receivables and revenue accounting entries
• Credit management controls for blocked orders and overdue customer balances
• Returns, credit memos and cancellation documents handling sales exceptions

Participants can design controlled SAP procurement and supplier-payment flows.

• Purchase requisitions initiated from demand, planning or manual requests
• Source determination using purchasing info records, contracts and source lists
• Purchase orders controlling quantities, prices, delivery terms and approvals
• Goods receipts updating inventory, valuation and receipt-accrual accounts
• Three-way matching between purchase order, receipt and supplier invoice
• Payment proposals, payment runs and supplier remittance processing

Participants can explain how SAP inventory movements affect stock records and financial valuation.

• Material types, valuation classes and stock-account determination logic
• Goods movements using movement types for receipts, issues and transfers
• Unrestricted, quality inspection and blocked stock status management
• Physical inventory counting, difference posting and approval controls
• Batch management and serial numbers supporting material traceability
• Stock ageing analysis identifying obsolete, excess and slow-moving inventory

Participants can connect production planning transactions with material, inventory and cost processes.

• Bills of material defining component quantities for finished products
• Work centres and routings establishing capacity, operations and standard times
• Material requirements planning generating planned orders and procurement proposals
• Production orders issuing components, confirming operations and receiving output
• Backflush processing posting component consumption during production confirmation
• Production variances comparing planned, actual and standard manufacturing costs

Participants can map maintenance processes linking equipment reliability, materials and maintenance costs.

• Functional locations and equipment records structuring maintainable technical objects
• Maintenance notifications recording faults, damage codes and required actions
• Preventive maintenance plans scheduling recurring inspections and servicing work
• Maintenance orders reserving parts, labour and external service requirements
• Order confirmations posting labour time, material consumption and technical completion
• Maintenance cost analysis by equipment, functional location and cost centre

Participants can structure SAP projects and monitor project-related commitments, costs and revenues.

• Work breakdown structures defining project scope, responsibility and reporting hierarchy
• Network activities scheduling tasks, resources, dependencies and milestone dates
• Project budgeting with availability control against approved funding limits
• Commitment tracking from purchase requisitions, orders and service procurements
• Actual cost collection from labour, materials, supplier invoices and allocations
• Project billing and revenue recognition dependencies for customer-funded work

Participants can explain how SAP operational processes generate controlled financial accounting entries.

• Universal Journal concept linking general ledger, controlling and asset information
• Document types, posting keys and field-status controls for journal entries
• Automatic account determination from material movements, billing and invoice processing
• Fiscal-year variants, posting periods and period-close control procedures
• Foreign currency valuation, exchange-rate differences and revaluation entries
• Financial statement versions grouping ledger accounts for external reporting

Participants can manage SAP supplier and customer subledger processes through reconciliation and clearing.

• Supplier invoices, credit memos and payment blocks in accounts payable
• Customer invoices, incoming payments and residual-item clearing procedures
• Reconciliation accounts connecting subledger balances with general ledger postings
• Dunning procedures managing overdue receivables through defined collection levels
• Automatic payment program controls for methods, banks and approval requirements
• Open-item analysis identifying unmatched payments, disputes and aged balances

Participants can use SAP controlling structures to analyse costs, margins and responsibility performance.

• Primary and secondary cost elements classifying cost-accounting postings
• Cost centre planning, actual-versus-plan analysis and variance investigation
• Internal orders tracking temporary initiatives, campaigns and non-routine expenditure
• Activity types and allocation cycles distributing shared service costs
• Profit centre accounting reporting contribution by business responsibility area
• Margin analysis connecting sales, cost of sales and customer profitability

Participants can map SAP asset lifecycle transactions from acquisition through retirement.

• Asset classes defining number ranges, account determination and depreciation rules
• Capital expenditure approval linked to investment measures and project structures
• Asset acquisition postings from supplier invoices, goods receipts and settlements
• Depreciation areas supporting local, group and management reporting requirements
• Periodic depreciation runs posting expense and accumulated depreciation entries
• Asset transfers, retirements and impairment postings with audit documentation

Participants can define SAP reports and exception indicators for operational and financial process management.

• SAP Fiori analytical apps for operational KPIs and exception monitoring
• Drill-down reporting from summary balances to originating business documents
• Key performance indicators for cycle time, backlog, fill rate and accuracy
• Exception reports identifying blocked invoices, overdue orders and stock discrepancies
• Report specifications defining audience, data source, filter and refresh frequency
• Data reconciliation between operational reports, subledgers and general ledger

Participants can assess SAP process controls and document evidence for audit and compliance review.

• Preventive, detective and corrective controls within SAP transaction processes
• Segregation-of-duties matrix for procurement, sales, finance and inventory activities
• Approval thresholds based on value, risk category and organisational responsibility
• Change logs documenting master-data amendments, configuration changes and user actions
• Audit trails connecting source documents, postings, approvals and supporting evidence
• Control test plans specifying population, sample, evidence and conclusion

Participants can plan data migration and test business processes for SAP implementation or change releases.

• Data migration objects for business partners, materials, balances and open items
• Extract-transform-load mapping between legacy fields and SAP target structures
• Data cleansing rules for duplicates, invalid codes and incomplete mandatory fields
• Unit, integration, user-acceptance and regression testing responsibilities
• Test scripts defining preconditions, transactions, expected results and evidence
• Defect lifecycle from logging, prioritisation, correction, retest and closure

Participants can prioritise SAP process improvements and prepare adoption actions for affected users.

• Root-cause analysis using five whys and fishbone diagrams
• Value-stream mapping identifying queues, rework, wait time and non-value work
• Process performance baseline using cycle-time, error-rate and compliance measures
• Improvement backlog prioritised through impact, effort, risk and dependency criteria
• Change-impact assessment covering roles, procedures, reports and training needs
• Standard operating procedures documenting transaction steps, controls and escalation paths

Participants can build, review and present a complete cross-functional SAP business-process design pack.

• Case scope defining legal entity, products, channels and operating assumptions
• BPMN process map connecting sales, procurement, inventory, finance and controls
• Organisational structure and master-data model supporting required transaction flows
• Document-flow analysis tracing operational events through accounting and reporting outputs
• Control matrix addressing approvals, access conflicts, exceptions and audit evidence
• Test scenarios, KPI dashboard and improvement roadmap supporting implementation decisions