Materials Management (MM) 

Purpose

The Materials Management (MM) component covers the most important laws and business practices specific to Brazil – in particular, the automatic generation of notas fiscais from the invoice verification and inventory management processes. The following documentation describes these aspects of the component. For generic information about MM, see Materials Management (MM).

Features

Country Version Brazil includes the following features:

Master Data

The material master has been enhanced so that you can enter all information required for the system to determine the CFOP number, calculate relevant taxes, and generate a nota fiscal when you procure materials or transfer stock.

Similarly, the vendor master has been enhanced to contain tax-relevant information. The system is therefore able to calculate the relevant taxes for each combination of material and vendor.

The plant master data remains unchanged. The only thing you need to do is assign a business place to each of your plants, in Customizing, under Cross-Application Components  ® General Application Functions ® Nota Fiscal ® CNPJ Business Places ® Assign to Plants. You can assign more than one plant to a single business place. 

You have to maintain all of this master data before you can start working with the system.

Day-to-Day Activities

With the relevant information maintained in your master records and in Customizing for MM, the system can create a nota fiscal automatically when you:

·        Enter an invoice in Logistics Invoice Verification (MM-IV-LIV)

·        Enter a goods movement in Inventory Management (MM-IM), including goods maintained as special stock

Reporting

You can create all required legal books pertaining to MM.