Material Procurement
The following applies to time-dependent courses.
Purpose
The Material Procurement function enables you to reserve materials from the material master of the Materials Management component for your courses in Training Management.
Prerequisites
· You must have the component Materials Management (MM) installed and have activated integration between it and Training Management. You do so in Customizing under SAP Learning Solution ® Integration ® Materials Management ® Integration yes or no?
· There must be materials stored in the material master that you can access.
· There must be resource types that you can assign to the resource material. The Availability Indicators infotype must be maintained for these:
¡ Material indicator
¡ Under Amount Available, enter the amount per course or per participant.
¡ Under Alternative Resource Search, enter the object type of the material (under Objects of Object Type) or enter relationship A054 used for participants or relationship A055 used for courses + the object type material (under Objects Related to Course Type).
If you choose the second option (enter relationship + object type) under Alternative Resource Search, you must enter for the course type the precise materials that are required for the course as well as the relationship to the resource type. This allows you to store for the course type the specific material numbers that are required (such as a particular course folder).
If you use materials that are required per participant and materials required per course, you must create two resources types of the category Material. You must create the relevant relationships for these under Availability Indicators.
· Participants must be booked for courses of this type.
· The course is firmly booked.
Process Flow
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1. In the Dynamic Information Menu, from the list of reports available for courses, you start the report RHXMARP0_LSO Material Requirements per Course.
2.
You enter the courses for which you require
material and choose Execute 
.
3. The report outputs the material requirements per course in list form.
4. You reserve material by selecting a course and choosing Reserve material.
5. The system checks material availability. Depending on the findings, it creates a reservation, a purchase requisition, or both in Materials Management.
6. A reference number is created for the reservation or requisition in Training Management. You must update this reference number.
7. In the event of data inconsistencies (for example, due to missing organizational data), the system outputs an error log. You can use this log to correct errors, cancel the operation and start the report again.
8. If the reservation or purchase requisition runs without errors, you can double-click the reference number to display the original reservation document in Materials Management or the original purchase requisition document in Purchasing.
Result
You have reserved the material required for your course.
See also:
Material Requirements per Course
For information on the interface, refer to:
Material Order in Training Management
Business Process Flow of Material Order