SAP Enterprise Resource Planning Training Course

Participants can define organisational structures and master-data requirements for an SAP ERP design.

• Company codes, plants, storage locations, purchasing organisations and sales organisations
• Assign organisational units to reflect legal, operational and reporting responsibilities
• Business Partner records support customer, supplier and employee relationship data
• Material master views control procurement, inventory, production, sales and accounting
• Chart of accounts, fiscal year variants and posting period controls
• Define master-data ownership, approval workflows, quality rules and change controls

Participants can model SAP-enabled processes and identify decisions, controls and handoffs.

• BPMN 2.0 maps events, activities, gateways, roles and exception paths
• Document current-state processes before defining SAP-enabled future-state workflows
• Identify process owners, approvers, data stewards and control performers
• Swimlane diagrams expose handoffs between finance, procurement, sales and operations
• Capture business rules, tolerances, approval limits and required audit evidence
• Prioritise process gaps using value, risk, complexity and regulatory impact

Participants can design core SAP Financial Accounting processes and period-end controls.

• General ledger postings use document types, posting keys and field status
• Configure account determination principles for operational transactions and financial statements
• Accounts payable processing covers invoices, payment blocks, runs and remittance advice
• Accounts receivable manages billing, collections, credit limits and cash application
• Asset accounting links acquisition, depreciation, transfer, retirement and general ledger
• Close calendars coordinate accruals, reconciliations, foreign currency valuation and reporting

Participants can specify SAP Controlling structures for cost management and profitability analysis.

• Controlling areas connect cost accounting structures with assigned company codes
• Cost centers, profit centers and internal orders support responsibility accounting
• Primary and secondary cost elements classify operational and allocation postings
• Plan cost-center budgets, activity prices and periodic allocation cycles
• Internal orders track campaigns, repairs, events and short-term initiatives
• Profitability analysis connects sales, costs, margins and market segments

Participants can design controlled procurement and supplier-invoice processes in SAP.

• Purchase requisitions initiate demand approval, sourcing and procurement planning
• Source determination uses info records, source lists, contracts and quota arrangements
• Purchase orders capture prices, delivery dates, account assignments and conditions
• Goods receipts update inventory, financial postings and purchase-order history
• Three-way matching compares purchase orders, receipts and supplier invoices
• Release strategies apply approval thresholds, workflow rules and purchasing controls

Participants can define SAP inventory controls, stock movements and reconciliation requirements.

• Material types, valuation classes and price controls govern inventory accounting
• Movement types record receipts, issues, transfers, returns and physical adjustments
• Batch management supports traceability, shelf-life control and quality requirements
• Plan physical inventory using annual counts, cycle counts and count tolerances
• Stock types distinguish unrestricted, quality inspection, blocked and consignment inventory
• Reconcile inventory subledger balances with general ledger valuation accounts

Participants can design SAP sales processes from customer order through billing and payment.

• Sales areas combine sales organisation, distribution channel and division assignments
• Customer master data defines partner functions, payment terms and delivery conditions
• Sales orders apply item categories, schedule lines, pricing and availability checks
• Delivery processing manages picking, packing, goods issue and shipment status
• Billing documents post revenue, tax, receivables and profitability characteristics
• Credit management applies exposure limits, checks, blocks and release procedures

Participants can describe SAP production planning data and control points for manufacturing operations.

• Bills of material define components, quantities, scrap factors and alternatives
• Routings specify operations, work centers, standard values and production times
• Material requirements planning calculates supply proposals from demand and stock
• Production orders reserve materials, capture confirmations and settle manufacturing costs
• Work centers connect capacity planning, scheduling, costing and shop-floor execution
• Backflush postings automate component consumption during production-order confirmation

Participants can specify SAP controls for projects, maintenance work and capital expenditure.

• Work breakdown structures organise project scope, budgets, costs and responsibilities
• Network activities sequence project tasks, milestones, capacity and external services
• Availability control prevents budget overruns against approved project allocations
• Functional locations represent maintainable assets within technical plant structures
• Maintenance orders plan labour, materials, external services and settlement rules
• Preventive maintenance plans schedule inspections, servicing and statutory tasks

Participants can design SAP approval, access and audit-control requirements for critical processes.

• Role-based access control assigns transactions, Fiori apps and organisational restrictions
• Segregation-of-duties analysis identifies incompatible purchasing, payment and master-data activities
• Workflow routes approvals using roles, thresholds, deadlines and escalation conditions
• Change documents retain evidence of master-data, configuration and transaction amendments
• Design preventive, detective and corrective controls for material business risks
• Define audit trails, control owners, review frequency and evidence retention

Participants can identify SAP integration requirements and prepare controlled data-migration plans.

• Integration points connect finance, procurement, sales, production and asset processes
• IDocs exchange structured business documents between SAP and external applications
• Application programming interfaces support controlled real-time system data exchanges
• Data mapping aligns legacy fields, code values, formats and transformation rules
• Migration reconciliation compares record counts, balances, exceptions and control totals
• Establish data-cleansing ownership, sign-off criteria and migration defect procedures

Participants can define operational, financial and management reporting requirements for SAP ERP.

• Report requirements specify audience, decisions, measures, dimensions and reporting frequency
• SAP Fiori analytical apps present operational status, exceptions and performance indicators
• Define key performance indicators for inventory, procurement, sales and financial close
• Drill-down hierarchies support analysis by company, plant, product and customer
• Reconciliation reports identify subledger, inventory, project and general ledger differences
• Data lineage documents report sources, transformations, owners and validation controls

Participants can structure an SAP implementation plan using SAP Activate deliverables and decision controls.

• SAP Activate phases organise discovery, preparation, exploration, realisation, deployment and operation
• Fit-to-standard workshops compare business requirements with standard SAP process capabilities
• Configuration workbooks record design decisions, dependencies, owners and approval status
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix from process need through test evidence
• Govern scope using change requests, impact assessment and decision logs
• Build a RACI matrix for programme sponsors, process owners and delivery teams

Participants can prepare SAP test plans that demonstrate process, control and integration readiness.

• Test strategy distinguishes unit, integration, user acceptance, regression and performance testing
• Write test scripts with preconditions, steps, expected results and evidence
• Design end-to-end scenarios spanning purchasing, inventory, invoice and payment processing
• Defect logs record severity, priority, root cause, owner and retest status
• Trace test cases to requirements, configuration decisions and business controls
• User acceptance criteria define readiness, sign-off authority and residual risk

Participants can plan SAP cutover activities and prepare business teams for controlled go-live.

• Cutover plans sequence data loads, validations, approvals, downtime and contingency actions
• Mock cutovers test duration, dependencies, reconciliation and decision escalation routes
• Training needs analysis identifies role-specific tasks, knowledge gaps and support needs
• Super-user networks provide floor support, issue triage and adoption feedback
• Hypercare plans define incident priorities, service levels, ownership and reporting
• Business readiness assessments confirm people, process, data, technology and controls

Participants can build, review and present a complete integrated SAP ERP process design pack for a business case.

• Select organisational structures aligned with the case operating model
• Produce BPMN process maps for purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash and record-to-report
• Define master-data objects, ownership rules, validation checks and approval controls
• Document module integration, financial postings, interfaces and reporting requirements
• Prepare configuration decisions, test scenarios, migration controls and cutover actions
• Present the design pack, defend decisions and respond to review findings