Material Master FAQS

Material Master FAQS QUESTIONS


Q: How can I extend all material to a new plant?


Q: How can we delete materials permanently from Material master?


Q: SAP only provides moving average value for current, previous period, and previous year.
SAP does not provide transactions/reports that will provide moving average value for a given date.
How can I report moving average price for material number 10000000 at plant 0001 on July 4, 1998 .



Q: We have defined all the variables for the materials. However, when I attempt to use Material Matchcode object MAT1, I get the response "No possible entries found". Why?


Q: The matchcode object selection is defaulted to matctcode ID "B". Iwould like to change to M "Material by Description" What is the solution?




Q: We can make field mandatory. We want to make a default value to a Particular field in the Material
Master. Say, We want that the period indicator in the MRP2 view as "P". What is the best way?


Q: What is the use of configurable material.?









Material Master FAQS ANSWERS


Q: How can I extend all material to a new plant?
A: The SAP program - RMDATIND is
used to create /update material master record.


Q: How can we delete materials permanently from Material master?
A: Use transaction MM70 - Material Master->Other->Reorganization->Material->Choose.
Build variant with selection range of material master records to be selected for deletion and maintain
run parameters.
Execute.
Use transaction MM71 - Material Master-> other-> Reorganizationn-->Material->Reorganization
Build a second variant
Maintain run parameters and execute.
It is also important to remove the records manually from info record, POs, PRs, reservation etc
for successful deletion of the material.
Q: SAP only provides moving average value for current, previous period, and previous year. SAP
does not provide transactions/reports that will provide moving average value for a given date.
How can I report moving average price for material number 10000000 at plant 0001 on July 4,
1998 .
A: Try any of these solutions:
1. Change the updating level of the structure (S031) to "daily". In LIS the total value and the total
stock are available. Divide value by the stock. It is possible to calculate this dynamically when
the analysis is run and to display the result.
2. Create your own structure in LIS and populate it by copying the Moving Average Price from the
material master every time there is a transaction. You will have data on those days when there
was a transaction.
Q: We have defined all the variables for the materials. However, when I attempt to use Material
Matchcode object MAT1, I get the response "No possible entries found". Why?
A: Matchcode i.d. "B", "Material by bill of material" has a selection condition for field STLNR NE ' '.
STLNR is the BOM number associated with a material in table MAST. Hence the message - "no
possible entries..." pops up if there are no bills of materials associated with your material numbers.
You get the matchcodes as long as the material referred by you has BOM number associated with
it.
Q: The matchcode object selection is defaulted to matctcode ID "B". Iwould like to change to M "
Material by Description" What is the solution?
A: Press the pull down arrow on the material number field and matchcode "B" is displayed, press
F5 double-click matchcode i.d. "M", then press F6 . This will set matchcode "M" as the default.
Q: We can make field mandatory. We want to make a default value to a Particular field in the Material
Master. Say, We want that the period indicator in the MRP2 view as "P". What is the best way?
A: Use transaction variant. Transaction SHD0 and then Transaction SE93.


Q: What is the use of configurable material.?
A: Configurable material is useful if you have a large number of combination of parts that go into a
product. It means different permutations and combinations of the parts for same material. If you
maintain a unique material code for each combination , you require a large number of material
numbers. KMAT may be used in such a case where you maintain just one generic product code.
A super BOM is maintained for such a material consisting of all possible alternatives. A routing is
also maintained consisting of all possible operations that could be used. Typically configurable
material is used in Made To Order (MTO) environment. However frequently ordered
configurations may be planned with a material variant which needs to have a material master record.
Thus Material variants may have stock and value. Depending upon characteristic values chosen at
sales order entry Sales Order BOM is created. Routing operations are also chosen depending upon
which BOM components are assigned to them.