Logistics & Supply Chain
What is Inventory Management (IM)?
SAP functionality for recording stock quantities and values via goods movements at plant and storage-location level.
Each movement creates a material document and usually an accounting document. In S/4HANA, material documents are stored in MATDOC. Stock reconciliation between IM, WM/EWM, and FI is a core cutover check.
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Related terms
Goods Movement
A physical or logical stock change, such as receipt, issue, or transfer, recorded in SAP with a movement type.
Movement Type
A three-digit key that classifies a goods movement, for example 101 goods receipt or 261 goods issue to order.
Material Document
The record of a goods movement, identified by document number and year, containing material, quantity, and movement type.
Material Document Table
The S/4HANA table that stores all material-document header and item data for inventory movements in one place.
Physical Inventory
The process of counting stock and posting differences to align system and physical quantities.
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