Exercise Objectives
After completing this exercise, you will be able to:
• Create and maintain material masters
• Describe the functions of material types
Business Example
In a first step of master data maintenance, you must:
• Create material master records and
• Define your own material types if required
Task 1:
Material Master Record: Navigation and Maintenance
1. Go to the following material master in change or display mode:
Material: T-FJ1##
2. Select view(s):
Which views have been maintained for the material?
Choose the Basic Data view and some other views.
3. Organizational levels:
Use the input help (F4) to select a plant and storage location.
4. Navigate through the material master views you selected.
Then go to views that you have not selected when accessing the material master.
5. Navigate to the additional data level.
Which alternative units of measure have been maintained, for example?
6. Display the administrative data (information on material).
For which industry sector and material type was the material created?
Which users have created or changed which views and when?
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Settings for material types
Display the material types defined in Customizing for finished products, semi-finished products, raw materials, and pipeline materials.
Caution: Make sure you do not change the data in Customizing. Exit the Customizing view without saving when you have completed the exercise.
1. Write down the settings for the parameters in the following table:
Parameters Finished
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2. Which function does the field “External no. assignment w/o check have”?
3. Which function does the “With Qty Structure” field have?
Task 3:
Creating a new material type 1. a) Create a new
Material type PI## Material Type Group ##
as a copy of
(Template) material type HALB semi-finished product.
b) Notice the following about the new material type:
- External and internal orders are allowed.
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- Externally assigned material numbers are checked against a number range.
- Material costing with a quantity structure (BOM, task list) is defined.
- For materials of this material type, the following user departments may be maintained:
Work scheduling Costing
Accounting Basic data
Classification Plant stocks
MRP Storage location stocks
Purchasing
- In all valuation areas, quantities and values are to be updated for materials of this material type.
- All materials of this material (not changeable) are to be valuated according to the moving average price.
- Account assignment is to take place according to account class reference 0008, in the same way as for material type HALB.
Save the material type.
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Solution 2: Material and Material Type
Task 1:
Material Master Record: Navigation and Maintenance
1. Go to the following material master in change or display mode:
Material: T-FJ1##
a) (...) → Material Master → Material → Display → Display Current 2. Select view(s):
Which views have been maintained for the material?
Choose the Basic Data view and some other views.
a) The view selection contains the views that have been created for the material so far.
3. Organizational levels:
Use the input help (F4) to select a plant and storage location.
a) See exercise
4. Navigate through the material master views you selected.
Then go to views that you have not selected when accessing the material master.
a) You can use the Enter key to navigate through the views selected.
By choosing the relevant tab page, you can navigate to the views you did not select on the initial screen.
5. Navigate to the additional data level.
Which alternative units of measure have been maintained, for example?
a) Choose the Additional Data and then the Units of Measure tab.
6. Display the administrative data (information on material).
For which industry sector and material type was the material created?
Which users have created or changed which views and when?
a) Choose the i button (Information on Material).
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Settings for material types
Display the material types defined in Customizing for finished products, semi-finished products, raw materials, and pipeline materials.
Caution: Make sure you do not change the data in Customizing. Exit the Customizing view without saving when you have completed the exercise.
1. Write down the settings for the parameters in the following table:
Parameters Finished
Material type FERT HALB ROH PIPE
Are internal
Accounting? Yes Yes Yes Yes
MRP? Yes Yes Yes No
Purchasing? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Costing? Yes Yes Yes No
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Sales? Yes Yes No No
Which price
a) SAP Menu → Tools → Customizing → IMG → Execute Project / Pushbutton SAP Reference IMG
SAP Customizing Implementation Guide → Logistics - General→ Material Master → Basic Settings → Material Types → Define Attributes of Material Types.
Double-click the relevant material type.
2. Which function does the field “External no. assignment w/o check have”?
Answer: Choose F1 on the field.
If the indicator is set, the material number can be assigned externally without being compared with the number range for the material type.
3. Which function does the “With Qty Structure” field have?
Answer: Choose F1 on the field.
This field is used to control whether material costing is carried out with or without a quantity structure (BOM and task list).
Task 3:
Creating a new material type 1. a) Create a new
Material type PI## Material Type Group ##
as a copy of
(Template) material type HALB semi-finished product.
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b) Notice the following about the new material type:
- External and internal orders are allowed.
- Externally assigned material numbers are checked against a number range.
- Material costing with a quantity structure (BOM, task list) is defined.
- For materials of this material type, the following user departments may be maintained:
Work scheduling Costing
Accounting Basic data
Classification Plant stocks
MRP Storage location stocks
Purchasing
- In all valuation areas, quantities and values are to be updated for materials of this material type.
- All materials of this material (not changeable) are to be valuated according to the moving average price.
- Account assignment is to take place according to account class reference 0008, in the same way as for material type HALB.
Save the material type.
a) Creating a new material type
Customizing (...) → Logistics - General → Material Master → Basic Settings → Material Types → Define Attributes of Material Types b) Select material type HALB
Copy as... icon
Overwrite material type HALB with new material type PI##
Make further settings as described.
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You should now be able to:
• Create and maintain material types