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Configuring Materials

Configuring Materials. Materials(Introduction). In general, we buy materials and services from vendors And we sell (some of) them to customers. Materials (Introduction). Remember that vendor records have company (FI) and (MM) segments – Materials have many segments too

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Configuring Materials

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  1. Configuring Materials

  2. Materials(Introduction) • In general, we buy materials and services from vendors • And we sell (some of) them to customers

  3. Materials (Introduction) • Remember that vendor records have company (FI) and (MM) segments – Materials have many segments too • Roughly speaking, these segments are called views • Some views are plant-specific. Others are not • Views across functional systems are consistent (FI) (MM) (PP)

  4. Material Master Views • Basic Data 1 • Basic Data 2 • Classification • Sales: Sales Org Data 1 • Sales: Sales Org Data 2 • Sales: General/Plant Data • Foreign Trade: Export Data • Sales Text • Purchasing • MRP 1 • MRP 2 • MRP 3 • MRP 4 • Forecasting • Work Scheduling • General Plant Data/Storage 1 • General Plant Data/Storage 2 • Warehouse Management 1 • Warehouse Management 2 • Quality Management • Accounting 1 • Accounting 2 • Costing 1 • Costing 2

  5. Material Master Views

  6. Material Master (Configuring) • Using the IMG you must enable materials management for each company code • Define whether or not to allow backposting (posting to the previous period)

  7. Material Master (Maintenance Status) • The Material Master record contains a “maintenance status” field indicating the user department / view • Table MARA field VPSTA

  8. Material Master (Organizational Units) • A material belongs to an industry sector • Industry sectors have control functions (screen sequence and field selection) • The industry sector cannot be changed after the material has been created • SAP predefines selected industry sectors • Plant / Chemical / Mechanical engineering / Pharmaceutical / Retail / service provider

  9. Material Master (Organizational Units) • A material has a type which controls • How the materials is procured (internal, external, both) • Valuation • Material types have control functions too • Whether the materials is configurable (able to assign a variant class • Material number assignment (internal / external) • Create custom types from existing types • Procurement (internal / external)

  10. Material Master (Material Types) • ROH: • Raw materials • Externally purchased so no sales view • HALB: • Semi-finished goods • Not purchase or sales view because we don’t make or sell • FERT: • Finished goods • Has sales view but no purchasing view

  11. Material Master Type (Configuring) • From the IMG

  12. Material Master Type (Configuring) • Select a Material type

  13. Material Master Type (Configuring)

  14. Material Master (Organizational Units) • A material belongs to a material group • Material groups are just classification units used to assign attributes to multiple materials in the same group • Use transaction code OMSF to create material groups • A material belongs to a division • Divisions are used to determine sales areas

  15. Units of Measure (1) • A base unit of measure must be identified for each material master • Basically a label • All data entered in Material Master (weight, cost, etc.) is related to the base unit of measure • Many standard units of measure are already defined in the SAP R/3 system

  16. Units of Measure (2) • Alternate units of measure can be defined for different uses with the appropriate conversion factor • (order unit ) • Base unit of measure should be smallestunit of measure used anywhere in the system

  17. Units of Measure (Illustration)

  18. Units of Measure (Illustration)

  19. IAN EPC • International Article Numbers (IAN) • Universal Product Code

  20. Material Master (Configuration) • You must set up company codes for materials management (use IMG)

  21. Material Master Changes • SAP records all changes to material • Immediate and future changes

  22. Purchasing Info Records • Provides a link between a material master record and a vendor master record • It provides default information for purchase orders • The tables are • EINA - Purchase Info Record: General • EINE - Purchasing info record: purchasing organization data • KONP - Condition Item • KONH - Condition Header

  23. Purchasing Info Records (Contents) • Current price and delivery costs for purchasing organization or plant • Number of last purchase order • Purchase order price history • Tolerance limits for over/under deliveries • Planned delivery time for material • Vendor evaluation data

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