Inventory Management with SAP S/4HANA

Jump-start your inventory operations in SAP S/4HANA! Review basic inventory practices and consult step-by-step instructions to configure SAP S/4HANA for your organization's requirements. Then put the system to work! Run the SAP Fiori applications that guide your core inventory workflows: inventory planning, goods receipt, core inventory, production planning, and inventory analysis. This hands-on guide to inventory has the details you need!

• Configure and run inventory management in SAP S/4HANA
• Plan, execute, and optimize your inventory processes: goods receipt, stock transfers, and more
• Analyze your inventory with key SAP Fiori applications

Inventory Planning

Set up a successful inventory management system. Understand how to implement key planning strategies like make-to-order, make-to-stock, MRP Live, and Kanban in your SAP S/4HANA system.

Inventory Execution

Ensure your system runs smoothly. Tap into the potential of SAP Fiori applications and execute core inventory processes such as exception handling, physical inventory, transfers, and more.

Inventory Analysis

Make the most of your inventory analytics tools. See what's offered with SAP S/4HANA, such as real-time data and role-based design; then dive in to CDS views, KPI monitoring, custom queries, and more.

• Inventory optimization
• Inventory planning
• Goods receipt
• Core inventory
• Production planning
• Inventory analysis
• Configuration
• Deployment
• SAP Fiori applications

About the Author

Bernd Roedel is chief development architect within a central architecture team in the area of core logistics, where he has supported SAP S/4HANA development for the last two years. He joined SAP in 2000 and worked as a developer and an architect for sustainability management, human resources, supply chain management, and inventory management projects. He has a bachelor's degree in biology, a master's degree in computer science, and a PhD in natural science.

Johannes Esser joined SAP in 2002. He is an experienced developer, certified Scrum master, and project management expert. He has completed a broad range of projects across sustainability management, supply chain management, and inventory management, with a focus on cloud mindset and agile software engineering.