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MATERIAL MASTER
INTRODUCTION
▪ Material master data is the company’s central source of material specific data.
It is used in all areas of logistics. All areas such as purchasing, inventory
management, materials planning and invoice verification can jointly use the
stored data.
▪ Data stored in material master is required for many activities, including the
following i.e.
✓ Purchasing for ordering purposes
✓ Inventory management for posting goods movement and physical
inventory management
✓ Accounting for material valuation
✓ Materials planning for materials requirement planning
▪ Organizational levels at which we can maintain material master are as follows:
✓ Data at client level (Whole enterprise): Material No, text and group
✓ Data at plant level: Purchasing, MRP & forecasting data
✓ Data at storage location: Storage bin description & picking area
▪ Material type
When creating a material master record, we must choose a material type and
industry sector to assign the material. Materials with same properties are
assigned to same material type.
Examples of Material types are Raw materials, semi-finished goods and
finished goods.
▪ Material type controls the following functions:
✓ Type of Number assignment (Internal or External)
✓ Permissible number range intervals
✓ User department view i.e. specific view proposed for a material
✓ Procurement type i.e. in-house production or external
▪ Industry sector
✓ Industry sector determines which screens are displayed and in which
order i.e. Screen selection.
✓ Which industry specific fields are displayed on each screen i.e. field
selection.
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Material Master Configuration Steps
1. Define Attributes of Material Types (T- Code OMS2)
Menu Path: SPRO SAP Reference IMG Logistics General
Material Master Basic Settings Material Types Define
Attributes of Material Types
✓ Select Raw Materials – ROH and click on copy-as
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✓ Check External no. assignment w/o check, select user departments and set
internal/external purchase orders as per business scenario
Procurement
type
✓ Click on Quantity/value updating , select qty updating, value updating
checkbox for valuation areas and then click on save
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✓ Click on create to generate transport request
✓ Enter short description of the transport request and then click on save
✓ Click on Continue
✓ Select Price Control Moving Average Price i.e. V
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2. Define Material Groups (T- Code OMSF)
Menu Path: SPRO SAP Reference IMG Logistics General
Material Master Settings for Key fields Define Material Groups
✓ Click on New Entries
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✓ Enter Material Group to be created along with its description
✓ Click on create to generate transport request
✓ Enter short description of the transport request
✓ Click on Continue
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3. Define Number Range for Each Material Type (T- Code MMNR)
Menu Path: SPRO SAP Reference IMG Logistics General
Material Master Basic Settings Material Types Define Number
ranges for each material type
✓ Click on Groups
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✓ Click on create groups
✓ Enter desired intervals required
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✓ Select MROH Material type and click on assign element/group
✓ Select the Number range created and then click on continue in order to assign
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4. Define Shipping Instructions
Menu Path: SPRO SAP Reference IMG Materials Management
Purchasing Material Master Define Shipping instructions
✓ Shipping instructions are certain instructions in purchase orders issued to vendors.
When relevant GR are entered, the extent to which vendor has complied with the
instructions can be noted.
✓ Shipping instructions should be assigned in purchasing value key.
✓ It is possible to assign one shipping value key to one purchase value key.
✓ Keep default shipping instructions as it is
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5. Define Purchasing value keys (T – Code OME1)
Menu Path: SPRO SAP Reference IMG Materials Management
Purchasing Material Master Define Purchasing value keys
✓ Purchasing value Key is useful for setting reminder for the material.
✓ Purchasing value key determines the following things: 1) Reminders keys - There are
3 keys which determine in how many days before or after the vendor has to be
reminded or urging letters for the material procurement.
✓ Click on New Entries
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✓ Enter Purchasing value key – KG01, Deadline Monitoring and Assign V1 Shipping
instructions to purchasing value key.
✓ Click on create to generate transport request
✓ Enter short description of transport request
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✓ Click on continue
❖ Material Configuration Steps Summary:
✓ Define Attributes of Material Types (T- Code OMS2)
✓ Define Material Groups (T- Code OMSF)
✓ Define Number Range for Each Material Type (T- Code MMNR)
✓ Define Shipping Instructions (T – Code OMEK)
✓ Define Purchasing value keys (T – Code OME1)
• We can choose default industry sector available or we can create new industry sector
if not available as per the business scenario.
Menu Path: SPRO SAP Reference IMG Logistics General
Material Master Field Selection Define Industry Sectors and Industry-
Sector-Specific Field Selection.
✓ Select Mechanical Engineering, choose copy-as to create new industry sector,
enter the desired industry sector to be created and then click on save to generate
transport request.
✓ If we create a new industry sector, and as we are aware that industry sector
controls field selection and screen selection.
✓ Therefore, we need to Assign Fields to Field Selection Groups and also Maintain
Field Selection for Data Screens i.e. which fields are to be set as hidden, display,
mandatory or optional.
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Material Creation
1. Creation of Material (T – Code MM01)
Menu Path: Logistics Materials Management Material Master
Material Create (General) Immediately
✓ Choose Industry Sector, Material type, select views required and click on
continue
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✓ Enter Plant, Storage location and then click on continue
✓ Enter mandatory fields such as material description, base unit of measure,
material group in basic data 1 tab
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✓ Enter Purchasing Group and Purchasing value key if required as these are
optional fields, which can be controlled in maintain field selection for data
screens
✓ Select valuation class, price control indicator as moving average price for raw
materials, enter moving price, enter price unit and then click on save
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✓ Material 800111111 created
✓ In order to extend the same material which, we created to other plant, Use
T-Code MM01.
✓ Enter the material number, choose industry sector, material type, select the
views required and click on org levels
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✓ Enter the plant in which you want to extend the material and click on continue
✓ Click on save and the material will be extended to plant.
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✓ If we want the edit or change the purchasing view for example of the material
which we created, we can use T-Code MM02
✓ Enter material number, select the purchasing view and click on org levels
✓ Enter the plant and click on continue
✓ Enter the fields to be changed/updated and then click on save
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✓ Material Number 800111111 changed.
❖ Important T-Codes related to Material Master are as follows:
T-Codes Used for
MM01 To create a material
MM02 To change a material
MM03 To display a material
MM06 Material flag for deletion
MM50 To extend material views
MM60 Materials list
MMSC Enter storage locations collectively for a material
MMAM To change material type
MM17 Mass Maintenance
❖ Important Tables related to Material Master are as follows:
Tables Related to
MARA Material Master General data
MAKT Material Master Description
MARM Material Master unit of measure
MARC Material Master Plant data
MARD Material Master Storage location data
MBEW Material valuation
T023 Material groups
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