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Material Master Userguide

The document discusses key fields in the material master in SAP related to sales data including the unit in which a product is sold and can be produced, distribution channels a material can be restricted to, plant and tax configuration, minimum order quantities, and other fields related to pricing, statistics, item categories, product hierarchies, transportation, and serial number management.

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Material Master Userguide

The document discusses key fields in the material master in SAP related to sales data including the unit in which a product is sold and can be produced, distribution channels a material can be restricted to, plant and tax configuration, minimum order quantities, and other fields related to pricing, statistics, item categories, product hierarchies, transportation, and serial number management.

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Material Master

Let us understand sales data in material master (MM)

Key fields here are

– Unit in which product is sold. Example – Product can


be sold in bottles but it can be produced in gallons.
It restricts selling of the material in all distribution channels
as per the reason selected from the list below.

Material can be restricted for specific distribution channel.


Reason list – It could be the same as above for cross-
distribution-chain

Theses statuses can have validity dates, as products may be


restricted as there is technical defect and engineering
department is working to resolve the same

Plant, which will get defaulted in the sales order item.


Sequence for this would be
1.Customer-material inforecord
2.Customer master-sales area data
3.Material master-Sales views
UTXJ is the tax category applicable to the material in US and
so need to be configured in customizing.
Enter tax classification applicable to the material. Tax
classification can be defined in customizing as below.

Minimum qty at order item level or delivery item level can be


controlled here.
Example – from the point of view of logistics and cost point
of view, order for certain materials can be taken only for
minimum quantity OR delivery can be done with certain
minimum quantity due to packaging and transport
consideration.
- Relevant for update for statistics

- It can be used for pricing


- Relevant in Revenue account assignment

- Used for item category determination

In the standard SAP R/3 System, the product hierarchy can


have up to 3 levels, each with a specific number of
characters.
- To classify materials

and are expressed in the unit of weight

- Checking group in combination with checking


rule can control the scope of check for availability.
- This needs to be checked so that the
material will need to be in batches during sales processing.

- A grouping of materials that share the similar


requirements for transportation

- A group of materials that has similar loading


requirements. It is used in the determination of shipping
point
- It groups together that require similar
packaging materials

- If the material is to be managed in serial


numbers then serial number profile should be entered here.

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