S/4 Pre-Project: Leverage Business Benefits by Implementing Material Ledger

Did you know that Material Ledger is mandatory in S/4HANA? Since SAP has extended ECC maintenance to 2027, take advantage of Material Ledger implementation as a stand-alone pre-project before your S/4HANA migration.

Why implement Material Ledger now?

Whether you are a CFO, controller, or manager, SAP Material Ledger provides you with accurate information allowing faster strategic ‘buy-source-make’ decisions.

Here are a few key drivers in your decision-making process:

• Do your organizational Standards reflect Actual Cost on an ongoing basis?
• Is there an accuracy of Cost flow between Manufacturing Plants?
• How do you establish blended cost when a product is procured and produced?
• How do you capture – Freight, Duty, and Markup costs?
• Can you carry out a multi-dimensional Analysis of Production Variances?

Here is how the Material Ledger integration flows across CO-PA:

When implemented properly, Material Ledger can bring transparency to valuation chain with:

• Variance Visibility across the Inventory Value chain from procurement to production
• Variances Allocation to product that are otherwise invisible
• Periodic Actual Costing a tool for faster strategic decisions
• Simultaneous Inventory Valuation in multiple currencies

Material Ledger can be implemented easily to deliver business value from the get-go, based on a detailed assessment of your business challenges, defined success metrics, and a clear roadmap.

How can GyanSys help?

GyanSys has provided significant value to our customers by implementing Material Ledger as a stand-alone project before S/4HANA migration. We will share successful customer case studies on how our clients take advantage of implementing Material Ledger now, rather than waiting until S/4 is implemented. We can assist you with our vast experience from across 25+ SAP S/4HANA implementations.

Our key deliverables:

• Review current standard cost practices in your organization
• Analyze current cost movement between plants – Inter and Intracompany
• Review all types of variances and provide detailed dataflow for allocating and absorbing variances at multiple levels
• Provide key business inputs on how Material Ledger helps them with Cost Analysis
• Analyze integration with CO-PA
• Roadmap and ML Implementation Schedule

Material Ledger implementation will add significant value today. It will also minimize system downtime and simplify your S/4HANA migration in the future.

Interested in finding out more about implementing material ledger before your S/4 migration? Click here to contact us to schedule a session with our experts!