Material Master Data Field

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Material Code

Max. 18 characters.

Alphanumeric key uniquely identifying the

material. It is used for all MM,SD,FI And PP
Related Transactions.

Industry Sector

It determines which screen appears and

in which order and which industry-
specific fields appear on the individual
screens.

Material Type

The material type controls the features of a

material and which data must be maintained for
the material.

When a material is created, it must be

assigned to a material type. The Valuation
Class is dependent on the Material type.

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Material Views

The views determine what type of

data the Material Master should
have viz., data common for all
Distribution Channels, Sales Org.-
wise data, Purchasing Org.-specific
data, Production-related data and
so on.

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Basic/Common
Data

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Distribution Channel

The way in which Products or Services reach the customer.

You can maintain information about Customers and Materials
by Sales Organization and Distribution channel. Within a
sales organization you can deliver goods to a given
customer through more than one distribution channel.

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Division

A way of Grouping materials, Products,

or Services. A Product or Service is Material code
always assigned to just one division. The Material Description
divisions lets you organize your sales
Text containing up to 40 characters that describes the
structure around groups of similar
material in more details. It is is mainly used for
products or product lines.
Printing Base
Purpose.
UOM

Unit of measure in which stocks of the material are

managed. The system converts all the quantities you
enter in other units of measure (alternative units of
measure) to the base unit of measure. In Inventory
Gross Wt. Management, the base unit of measure is the same
as the stockkeeping unit.
Design It Signifies the Gross weight of the Grade/Category
material and is useful in case of If BUOM is mentioned wrong in Material
It represent the number to the Printing of Orders, Challans, Packing Master
It represent and Transaction have been done
the Grade/Category
Design of the Paper
WidthMaster List. Also it is used for calculation of against
of the Material thatand
Master Material
is Master, then it is not
which will be used for creating STO condition price. useful in possible to change
case of Printing the same. It is basically
Orders.
Material MasterItand is useful
Signifies the in
Width of the Paper used for Reporting, Stock Keeping and Pricing
case of PrintingMaster
Orders.
and is basically defined in Raw Purpose.
Master of Papers.
Weight Unit
Size
Unit referring to the Gross
It is useful in case of Printing
weight or Net Orders
weight of the
and most importantly it is used for FA
material.
And NA Calculation.

Volume Material Group

It is used for Pricing,NA Calculation, Reporting and
Pack Auto-calculated for its basic Purpose is to help in creation of Material
printing of N.A. for codes.
Groups together
Plywoodmaterials
/ MDF that require
similar packaging materials. It is used in
case of export code for Packaging
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Design No.

It represents the Number to the

Design of the Paper Master /
Laminate / Decowood and is useful
in case of Printing Orders and for
checking stock in the Plant.
Thickness
It represents the Thickness of
the Material and is useful in case
of Printing Orders and Reporting
Purpose.

GSM

It Represent the GSM of the

Paper Master and it is defined in
Material code of Raw Paper Finish
Master.
It Represent the Finish of the Paper
Master and is mainly used for
creating Material codes of Laminates,
Decowood and Laminated MDF. It is
also used in case of Reporting
Design Description Purpose and Printing Orders.

It Represent the Description of

the Design and is useful in case
of Printing Orders and Reporting
Purpose.

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Sales Data

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Sales Unit

Unit of measure in which the material is sold. A value in this field

must be entered only if Sales unit differs from the base unit of
measure. If the field does not contain an entry, the system
will assume that the unit of measure is same as the base
unit of measure.
Tax classifications

Conversion Factor 1 Identifies the condition that the system uses to automatically
determine country-specific taxes during pricing. You can define
Denominator of the quotient that specifies the ratio
one or more tax categories for each country. During sales order
of the alternative unit of measure to the base unit Variable
processing, theSales
systemUnit
applies the tax category according to: a)
of measure. the geographical location of your delivering plant and the
Should be ticked if Sales UOM <> Base UOM and
location of the customer receiving the goods. b) tax
necessary conversion factor has to be maintained.
classifications in the customer master record and the material
master record.

Conversion Factor 2

Numerator of the quotient that specifies the ratio of the

alternative unit of measure to the base unit of measure. The FA
and NA is dependent on it. If it is mentioned Wrong then
wrong calculation will occur in P.O and Sales order.

Cash Discount

Indicator that specifies whether this material

qualifies for a cash discount. If it is not ticked
then Cash Discount will not get reflected in
Sales order.

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Material Statistics Group Discount Group

Helps to determine which data the A way of grouping materials to which you want to apply
system updates in the logistics the same conditions. It is basically used for defining
information system. Mandatory Discount Structure in SD and Reporting purpose. If it is
Account Assignment Group
for updating Sales Data in mentioned wrong, then wrong Discount Structure
documents. would get updated in Sales Order and then in
Group of materials with the same Accounting
Final Invoice which in turn result in Loss to the
Requirements. Used by the system when creating an
company.
Accounting Document from a billing document to
Sub Group Thickness determine the revenue or sales deduction account. If
Finish
it is kept Blank then the accounting entries
It represents in Sub-group of the Raw would not get generated during creation of
It represents the thickness of Material
Paper / Laminate / Decowood Master Final Invoice It
Master in a 3 digit Format which should andrepresents the Finish ofwrongly
if it is mentioned Material
which is purchased from outside. It is mm) MaterialMaster
be equivalent to the Thickness (in w.r.t in a 3entries
type then digit Format
would which
get should
basically used for Reporting and mentioned in Basic Data. It is wrongly posted be equivalent
in different to G/L
the Finish mentioned in
accounts.
Printing Purpose and for Pricing. basically used for Reporting Basic Data. It is basically used for
Purpose. Reporting Purpose.

OSD/BSD

It represents the Material if it is

discontinued / out of range / in range
etc. It is basically used for
Reporting Purpose.

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Availability Check

This field has two uses: a) Specifies whether

Transportation Group and how the system checks availability andGroup
Pricing ;
b) In Flexible Planning, defines - together
Grouping of materials that share the same route and with the checking rule -the different
Its MRP
is basically used for Pricing purpose. The
transportation requirements. Transportation groups elements that make up this key figure.
PricesThefor Material Master are defined based
are used for automatic route scheduling duringsum of these elements gives the key
on figure.
Pricing Groups in FG / RM / SFG Codes.
sales order and delivery note processing.
Loading Group

A grouping of materials that share the same loading

requirements. The system uses the loading group as
well as the Shipping conditions and Management
Batch Delivering
plant to automatically determine the shipping
point for the item. Specifies whether the Material is managed in
Batches. This indicator can be set in the material
master record manually or, if batches are valuated
individually, it is set automatically for the plants
concerned, in which case it cannot be changed.
The indicator cannot be changed if stocks
Profit Center exist in either the current period or in the
previous period.
Key which together with the controlling area uniquely
identifies a Profit Center. It is directly linked with Cost
Centre. If Profit Centre is mentioned wrong, then
the entry would get Posted in wrong Cost Centre.

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Purchasing
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Purchase Tolerance Group
Key defining the reminder days and
tolerance limits valid. Used in case of
Raw Material procurement (Paper
etc.) and defines the Under delivery
and Over delivery Tolerance limits in
PO, based on which MIGO can be
done.
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Purchasing OUoM
Specifies the unit of measure in which the material is
ordered. A value in this field to be entered only if unit of
measure differs from the base unit of measure. If the
field does not contain an entry, the system will
assume that the unit ofOrder
measure is the base unit
Variable Unit
of measure.
Should be ticked if Order UOM <> Base
UOM and necessary conversion factors are
to be maintained.
Purchasing Group
Key for a buyer or a group of buyers, who
is/are responsible for certain purchasing
activities: a) Internally, the purchasing
group is responsible for the
procurement of a material or a class
of materials. b) Externally, it is the
medium through which contacts with
the vendor are maintained.
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Production
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MRP Controller
MRP Type
Specifies the number of the MRP controller or group of MRP controllers
Key that determines whether and how the material isresponsible for material planning for the material. MRP Controller have
planned. You
have the following options: a) Manual reorder pointalready been defined
planning; b) for every Factory in SAP. Entered only when
MRP Type = “PD”. Every SFL, SFG and FG should have an MRP
Automatic reorder point planning; c) Forecast-based
controller.
planning; d) Material requirements planning with forecasts
for unplanned consumption. Every SFG And FG Code should
have a MRP Type = "PD"(MRP).

Lot Size

Key that determines which lot-sizing

procedure the system uses within
materials planning to calculate the
quantity to be procured or produced.

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Procurement Type

Indicator that defines how the material is procured. The following

procurements types are possible: a) The material is produced in-
house b) The material is procured externally and c) The
material can be both produced in-house and procured
externally.
Production St. Location
The procurement type is defined by the material type you
have chosen. In the case of a material produced in-
house, this is the key of the storage
location that is copied to the planned
order, production order, or run schedule
quantity: a) If the material is a
component, it is the issuing storage
location to which a backflush is
posted. b) If the material is produced,
it is the receiving storage location to
Backflush which the receipt of the material is
St. Location
posted . for EP
Determines whether the backflush indicator is set
in the production order. Here, a 3-levelIn the case of a material procured
hierarchical logic is applied: a) In theexternally,
routing, this is the key of the storage
the backflush indicator is set in the location which is copied in MIGO etc.
component assignment b) In the material
master record, the backflush indicator has
the characteristic "Always backflush“ c) In
the material master record, the backflush
indicator has the characteristic "Work
center decides", the indicator being set in
the work center.

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Period Indicator
Indicator specifying the Periods in
which the Material's consumption
values and forecast values are
managed.
Consumption Mode
Strategy Group
The strategy group groups all the planning
strategies that can be used for a particular
material. The planning strategy represents
the procedure used for planning a material
and is (technically speaking) controlled by
the MRP types.

The consumption mode controls

the direction on the time axis in
which the system consumes
requirements
Backward Consumption period
Fwd. Consumption period
Determines the consumption period (in
workdays) for Determines
backward consumption.
the consumption period (in
Using backward consumption,
workdays) sales consumption. In
for forward
orders, dependent requirements,
forward consumption, or sales orders,
material reservations
dependentare assigned to and
requirements or material
consume planned independent
reservations consume planned
requirement quantities
independentwhich lie within that lie within
requirements
the consumptiontheperiod and before
consumption theafter the
period
requirements date. The consumption
requirements date.
period is specified in days and is valid
from the current
Thedate. A period between
consumption period is specified in
1 and 999 daysdaysshould
andbe entered.
is valid from the current date. A
period between 1 and 999 days should
be entered.

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Version Indicator

Gets ticked automatically when

Production Versions are
maintained for the Material Master

Repetitive Mfg.
REM Profile
Authorizes the material for Repetitive
Manufacturing. You can only backflushThe repetitive manufacturing profile also
in Repetitive Manufacturing if you determines: a) how the system deals
have set this indicator. If you set with activities when backflushing b)
which movement type is used to
this indicator, you must also specify
post goods receipts and goods issues
a repetitive manufacturing profile
for this material. c) how planned order and run
schedule quantities are reduced in
the backflush transaction d) how
BOM corrections are made - if errors
should occur when posting
quantities to be backflushed.

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Issue Unit

Unit in which the material is issued from the warehouse.

A value in this field is to be entered only if issue
unit of measure differs from the base unit of
measure. If the field does not contain an entry,
the system will assume that the issue unit of
measure is same as the base unit of measure.

Production Unit

Unit in which the material is issued from the warehouse.

A value in this field is to be entered only if
production unit of measure differs from the base
unit of measure. If the field does not contain an
entry, the system will assume that the
production unit of measure is same as the base
unit of measure.

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Material
Valuation Data

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Valuation Class

The Valuation class has the following functions: a)

Allows the stock values of materials of the same
material type to be posted to different G/L
accounts b) Allows the stock values of materials
of different material types to be posted to the
same G/L account c) Determines together with
other factors the G/L accounts updated for a
valuation-relevant transaction (such as a goods
movement).
Price Control

Indicates the price control used to valuate the

stock of a material. You have the following
options: Standard price or Moving average
price. If the material ledger is activated for
the material, this indicator, together with
the material's price determination
indicator, determines at which of the
following prices the material is valuated:
Standard price, Moving average price,
Periodic unit price.

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