Function documentationConnect Materials Management

 

You wish to use Materials and Warehouse Management for a drug. There are two different scenarios:

  • The provision of the drug should be controlled by a stockroom for the corresponding organizational unit (e.g. storage cupboard in examination room of a care unit). The Materials Management component is not in use (variant 1).

  • A drug should be managed using the inventory management of the Materials Management component (variant 2).

You use the fill source to determine where the drug should be provided from.

Prerequisites

You have already entered fill sources in the Implementation Guide by choosing Start of the navigation path SAP Healthcare – Industry-Specific Component Clinical System Next navigation step Medication Next navigation step Inventory Management Next navigation step Maintain Fill Source for Drugs End of the navigation path.

In case of inventory management by materials management (variant 2) you must include the plant and storage location in the fill source. You can set the Automatic Availability Check indicator for a fill source.

Furthermore, if you use inventory management by materials management (variant 2), you must have created material belonging to the drug in the material master.

Features

Inventory Management by Materials Management (Variant 2)

The connection with materials management (MM component) takes into account the possible use of several drug levels. See Drug Level

If you use several drug levels, it is therefore possible that a drug in the medication module is consumed (e.g. by administration) at the lowest drug level, while materials management uses generic drugs as MM materials.

The following possibilities therefore arise when you connect the medication and materials management modules:

  • You can group several drugs under one material.

  • You can define materials at an abstract level.

  • Loose connections between base units, while the completeness of units of measure is guaranteed between materials management in MM and the drug master in the medication module.

    This means that the base unit of the material and the drug need not be identical, as long as it is possible to convert the units of measure (e.g. drops in the medication module into, for example, mg in MM).