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Configuring Material Masters: Segments, Views, and Organizational Units in SAP, Slides of Computer Programming
An overview of configuring material masters in sap, including segments, views, organizational units, and units of measure. Material masters have various segments such as company code, material, and industry sector. Views are perspectives of the material data, which can be plant-specific or functional. Organizational units include industry sectors, material groups, and divisions. Units of measure have a base unit and alternate units with conversion factors. International article numbers (ian) can also be set up for materials.
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Configuring Materials
Materials(Introduction)
In general, we buy materials and services
from vendors
And we sell (some of) them to customers
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
Material Master Views
Material Master
(Maintenance Status)
The Material Master record contains a
“maintenance status” field indicating the user
department / view
Table MARA
field VPSTA
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
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
Material Master Type
(Configuring)
From the IMG
Material Master Type
(Configuring)
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
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 smallest unit of measure used anywhere in the system