Material Master in SAP system

January 26, 2010 by CRM
Filed under: Sale and Distribution

The material master in SAP is grouped into several views: Basic data, sales and distribution data, purchasing data, various further data for engineering/design, accounting, costing, warehouse management, and so on. Basic data is relevant for all areas. It is valid for all organizational units within a client.

Sales: sales organization data in SAP is relevant for sales and distribution. It is valid for the respective sales organization and the distribution channel. The sales: plant data is also relevant for sales and distribution. It is valid for the respective delivering plant. There is additional data for several other areas. This is valid for various organizational units.

There are several tab pages in the material master, that are valid for sales and distribution:

• Basic data is relevant for all areas. It is maintained independently of organizational units.
• Sales Org. 1 data, Sales Org. 2 data, and the sales texts are valid for the sales organization and the distribution channel.
• Sales: General/Plant data and Foreign Trade: Export data is valid for the delivering plant.

By changing the Customizing settings, you can hide certain fields on a tab page or make them required entry fields.

For Cross Division Sales

You can use this kind of processing to enter multiple materials with various divisions in a sales order. You can control the following in Customizing, according to the sales document type:

• Whether it is possible to enter multiple materials with various divisions for an order.
• The way the system is to respond (with or without warning message)
• Whether the division on item level is copied from the material master record or whether the division in the document header is also copied into the item.

Division-Specific Sales

You cannot use this kind of processing to enter multiple materials with various divisions in an order.
This can be controlled in Customizing, according to the sales document type.

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