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On-hand inventory at landed cost in S/4HANA Cloud. The working-capital line on the balance sheet.

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At a glance

On-hand inventory at standard or moving-average price in S/4HANA Cloud, valued via the Material Master price control field (MARC.VPRSV). The working-capital line on the balance sheet, sourced from the Universal Journal stock postings. Sums valuated stock across all storage locations and plants, multiplied by current valuation price.

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Calculation

Calculated automatically from your SAP data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

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Worked example

A US enterprise B2B distributor on S/4HANA Cloud with 4 plants across 3 Company Codes. Snapshot 03 May 26. Five things to notice:
  1. $57.4M of inventory at landed cost is the balance-sheet asset figure. Reconciles to the GL inventory accounts (130xxx range) on the trial balance to within rounding.
  2. Plant 1010 (US East DC) holds 42% of the value. Concentration is normal for a distribution model with regional fulfilment, but means a single warehouse outage hits 42% of revenue capacity.
  3. Pair this card with Inventory Aging and Dead Stock Value. Of 57.4Mtotal,typically8to1857.4M total, typically 8 to 18% is aged > 180 days and 3 to 8% is dead-stock zero-velocity. For this merchant: 5.2M aged, $1.8M dead.
  4. Inventory turnover = Annual COGS / average inventory. With 190MannualCOGSon190M annual COGS on 57M average inventory, turnover is 3.3x (about 110 days of inventory on hand). Industry benchmark for B2B distribution: 4 to 6x. The merchant carries more inventory than peers, likely due to product diversity or service-level commitments.
  5. Multi-Company-Code Group Reporting view. SAP’s Universal Journal stores valuation in both CC currency and Group Currency. The card pivots cleanly between consolidated USD ($57.4M) and per-CC native (Toronto plant in CAD, Monterrey in MXN). FX revaluation of Group Currency runs at month-end via Foreign Currency Valuation Fiori app.

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Sibling cards merchants should reference together

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Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in S/4HANA Cloud:
Material Inventory Values, Stock Overview Fiori app Stock Overview transaction MMBE (per material) / MB52 (multi-material list) Trial Balance Fiori app filtered to inventory account hierarchy node Embedded Analytics: CDS view I_MaterialStock and I_MaterialValuation
Direct deep-link: https://my{tenant}.s4hana.cloud.sap/sap/bc/ui2/flp#MaterialInventoryValues-display Why our number may legitimately differ from MB52 / Trial Balance: Cross-connector reconciliation:

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Why is the card lower than my Trial Balance inventory account? Most often: blocked / restricted / consignment stock is in the GL account but excluded from the card by default. Toggle in the field map. Standard price (S) vs moving average (V), which does the card use? Each material’s own price control. SAP allows materials to mix S and V across the chart. The card respects each material’s setting; it does not force one method. FX revaluation and Group Currency, when does the card update? Group Currency stock value updates with each material posting (goods receipt, goods issue, transfer, revaluation). End-of-period FX revaluation runs (Foreign Currency Valuation Fiori app) update parallel-currency balances; the card picks up the new values within 15 minutes of the run. Consignment stock, owned by us or by suppliers? Consignment-from-supplier (W type, vendor-owned) is excluded; consignment-to-customer (where we still own it but it is at the customer’s site) is included. In-transit stock, included? If we own it (FOB origin), yes. If the supplier owns it until delivery (FOB destination), no. SAP S/4HANA on-premise vs Cloud, does the card behave differently? Same data structure (MARD, MBEW, Universal Journal stock postings). Connector path differs slightly; both are supported. Material Ledger (CKM3N) vs basic valuation, which does the card show? If your tenant has Actual Costing / Material Ledger active, the card uses periodic actual cost when available; otherwise standard or moving-average price. Configurable via field map. T-codes for drilling in? MMBE / MB52 (stock overview), CKM3N (material price analysis), MR21 (price change), MI31 (physical inventory). What does this number mean for the bank lender? It is the inventory line on the balance sheet. Inventory-backed lending facilities (revolving credit lines, asset-based lending) typically advance 50 to 70% of inventory value. So 57.4Minventorybacks57.4M inventory backs 28 to $40M of borrowing capacity, depending on the lender’s haircut.

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