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What are the hard work and advantages of SAP MM consultants in the implementation of the project? many novices are not very clear about this. In order to help you solve this problem, the following editor will explain it in detail. People with this need can come and learn. I hope you can get something.

The difficulties and advantages of SAP MM consultants in implementing the project

As the limerick circulated in the industry before, MM consultants are hard-working and have a low status. In many projects that the author participates in, he is the implementation consultant of MM module, either full-time consultant of MM or MMWM consultant. I have a deep understanding of the hardship of the MM consultant on the project.

From the content of SAP MM module, the consultant of this module needs to understand many business processes, such as purchasing, inventory management, MRP, finance and so on. From a professional point of view, it is not easy to be an excellent MM consultant. In the project practice, the invoice verification sub-module is mostly responsible for by the financial module consultant; however, some projects are assigned to the consultant of the MM module. Even in a project where the financial consultant is responsible for invoice verification, the MM consultant cannot be completely disengaged and needs to provide the necessary technical support according to the definition and arrangement of the different processes in the project. And the famous automatic posting function is a test and challenge for MM consultants. Because this function point is the most important integration point between the MM module and the financial module, the MM consultant needs to work with the FICO consultant to complete the configuration and testing of this extremely important integration function. And MRP-related functions, project practice, although more is done by PP consultants, but as MM consultants, can not completely understand MRP. For example, for some parameters of the MRP of purchasing materials, the MM consultant has the responsibility and obligation to work with the PP consultant to provide guidance to the business.

At the technical level, due to well-known reasons, SAP is a highly integrated system, each module is closely real-time integrated with other modules, and each module consultant needs to focus on and master these integration points. In this paper, the author put aside the technical level, only from the perspective of master data, business blueprint and user training to talk about the difficulties and advantages of SAP MM consultants compared to other modules in the process of project implementation.

In terms of master data, an important and basic master data is material master data. Material master data is one of the most complex master data across business departments. it has many fields, involving more than a dozen views, which correspond to each department of the business. Each view has many fields, which have their own control over the business of each department. Without exception, the collection of material master data requires consultants from each module of the project team and key users of various business departments to work together. Unfortunately, according to the project practice, the collection and import of material master data is mainly led by MM consultants or independently. For example, for the training of each view of material master data, MM consultants generally arrange training meetings, gather all key users to participate, and other module consultants provide support; to determine the template of material master data, finally, MM consultants summarize the field requirements of each module consultant to form a unified template document. The development of tools for importing material master data, such as LSMW, also falls on MM consultants. Due to the large number of views and technical and even business reasons, there may be more than one LSMW tool for material master data import. MM consultants need to develop several different LSMW tools to import data from different views of material master data. This means that the import template of the material master data may have multiple files, and the data files imported by LSMW need to be sorted out one by one when importing the data. In the blueprint phase of some projects, you need to work with the business team to Review many process blueprint documents, which then need to be signed by key users of each business unit and even their bosses. The blueprint of the material master data maintenance process and the user signature link is another hard work for MM consultants. Because the material master data is used by all business units, the process blueprint document needs to be signed by all key users on the project and by their boss. Although this is painful, it is also an advantage of MM consultants: he has the opportunity to realize that the bosses of various business departments on the project, come into contact with all kinds of managers, although contact with these bosses is not deep, but it also gives MM consultants a chance to read more people, who can say that they can not be friends in the future?

The process of creating and approving purchase requisition, which is also a typical key user across various business departments, involves the process of the boss of each business department and even the general manager. When talking about the approval of purchase application and designing its approval workflow, MM consultants need to convene the heads of various departments to discuss the details of the process. In the follow-up training phase, the MM consultant needs to provide training on the creation of purchase requisition for all department key users of the project client, and on the approval of purchase requisition for all department bosses of the customer. This is also the hardest part of the MM consultant in the project team, because of the discussion of these processes and subsequent training, the MM consultant has to face all the key users of the project client's department as well as the department boss. This unique job opportunity in the project team makes MM consultants have to face the challenges of users of various business units, especially in the discussion of purchase application approval process, in which most of the veterans of various business departments participate, and MM consultants need to convene one or more meetings to discuss. For some outstanding business decisions, MM consultants need to follow up, communicate and coordinate with the heads of departments, and urge them to make decisions as soon as possible. In the signing process, the business blueprint related to the purchase application approval workflow is another work involving the leadership of the whole company of the project client. The MM consultant needs to get the key users of each department to sign, and at the same time need to find the boss of each department to sign. This kind of opportunity to deal with the heads of various departments of project clients, although MM consultants are somewhat difficult and need to be cautious, it is also a rare opportunity to communicate and learn with many management, and it can also be regarded as an advantage for MM consultants to 'read more people' in the process of project implementation.

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