You can preset both the organizational units and the views to be selected and save this setting. Here you can see the purchasing data for plant 1010. The data of the material is organized according to views and organizational structure. In the Organizational Levels dialog box (2), you enter the relevant organizational levels. In the Select View(s) dialog box (1), you specify the views you want to process. The below figure illustrates this: After the initial screen, you see two consecutive dialog boxes.

When you maintain material master records, you must go through several dialog screens before you start creating, changing, or displaying data. The breakdown of material data according to user departments and organizational levels is also reflected in material master record maintenance. For example, you would maintain sales data depending on the sales organization and distribution channel, and you would specify a warehouse number and storage type for warehouse management data. Other organizational levels can be relevant for other activities. Note: The previously mentioned organizational levels (client, plant, and storage location) are the ones relevant for the external procurement process and inventory management. At this level, you can, for example, maintain a storage bin with the informative character only. A lot of data relevant for purchasing, MRP, or stock valuation is therefore maintained at the plant level.ДЄnother level where specific material master data can be maintained is the plant storage location level. You also decide for each plant (the plant is the valuation level) how a material is to be valuated and at what price. In the area of purchasing, you can, for example, define per plant whether automatic purchase requisitions are allowed or not (using an indicator in the material master). In MRP, for example, you can define the planning procedure or lot-sizing procedure for each plant. This data is maintained at the client level in the material master.ДЄ material master also contains data that is plant-specific. What does that mean in concrete terms? A material master record contains data that is valid for the whole company: the material number, the material description, the assigned material group, the base unit of measure, the weight, and so on. In parallel to being structured according to views, the material master is set up along the organizational structure. For the purchasing process of a non-stock material for which you want to create a material master record, you only need the Purchasing view.If you also want to plan this material, you must have maintained the MRP view.When purchasing stock material, the Purchasing and Accounting views must be maintained (at minimum).If you want to use a material for a process, the system checks whether the material has the required maintenance status-that is, whether the required views have been maintained.Дepending on the purposes for which you want to use a material, you must have maintained certain views: For this reason, material master data is structured in so-called views that correspond to the user departments: in the material master, you will find purchasing-specific, sales-specific, warehouse-specific data, and so forth.ДЄ material automatically receives a maintenance status, depending on the views maintained.

A specific user department is not interested in all the information stored in the material master, but usually only in the data related to its business activity. Since many departments use the material master, the material master contains a lot of data. A material should only be created once in the system and is assigned a unique number.ДЄll areas, such as purchasing, inventory management, MRP, work scheduling, warehouse, and so forth, all access the stored data together. To avoid redundancy, material data is stored in a single database object. In this blog post, we will concentrate on the structure of the material master data, the maintenance of material master records, and some important fields. The material master record is the central source for material-specific data.

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