Material Master – Industry Sector
Industry sector is used to group records
It determines industry-specific data that
will appear on the master record
Industry sector examples:
◦ Chemical industry (C ),
◦ Mechanical engineering (M),
◦ Pharmaceuticals (P),
◦ Plant Engineering/Construction (A),
◦ Retail, and so on.
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Material Master – Material Type
It is used to categorize materials
It defines material attributes of:
◦ Valuation
◦ Procurement, and
◦ Price control, etc.
It controls transaction (types) allowed for
the material
It controls the screen (view) sequence,
number assignment, field selection, and
account determination
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Material Master – Material Type
Material type information determines:
• What views are maintained
• Whether internal or external procurement is
allowed
• whether changes in material quantity need to
be updated
• Which general ledger accounts need to be
updated
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Material Master – Material Types
SAP standard material types (used in all
industries):
◦ ROH (Raw Materials)
Purchased externally only
No sales view
◦ HAWA (Trading Goods)
Always purchased externally
Sold without any change to the material
No manufacturing views exist
◦ FERT (Finished Products)
Are produced internally
Normally no purchasing views exist
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Material Master
– More Material Types
HIBE (Operating Supplies)
VERP (Customer returnable packaging)
LEER (Empty containers)
KMAT (Configurable material)
ERSA (Spare parts)
DIEN (Services)
NLAG (Non-stock, non-valuated material)
UNBW (Non-valuated, stocked material)
HALB (semi-finished)
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Material Master – Data maintenance
features
Default
◦ It speeds data entry by using the most frequently used
field values (plant, purchasing organization, etc.)
Reference Material
◦ It speeds data entry by copying data from existing
material master
Profile
◦ It speeds data entry by copying standard data created in
a profile into a selected view Materials Requirements
Planning (MRP)
Collective entry of storage location data
◦ It speeds the creation of multiple storage locations
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Material Master – Organization Levels
Material master data can be related to all
organizational levels
General information of material master
records (such as description, number,
base unit of measure) has to be related to
the highest level of organization (i.e., the
client)
Other material master records are tailored
at the plant or lower levels
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Material Master
– at Various Organization Levels
Data are visible
◦ At client level:
Description
Units of measure
Material number
Engineering data
◦ At plant level:
Planning data
Manufacturing data
Purchasing data
◦ At storage Location level:
Stock quantities
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Material Master
– Primary Views
Basic data 1
Sales: sales organization data 1
Sales: sales organization data 2
Sales: general/plant data
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Forecasting
Barrel Pen
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Material Master
– More Primary Views
MRP: 1
MRP: 2
MRP: 3
Work scheduling
General Plant Data/Storage
Accounting 1
Costing 1
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Material Master
– Basic Data 1 View
General data
◦ Basic Unit of Measure
Unit of measure in which stocks of the material are
managed
◦ Material Group
Used to group together several materials or
services with the same attributes
◦ Division (areas)
Used to determine the sales area and the business
area for a material, product, or service
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Material Master
– Basic Data 1 View
Dimensions/EANs
◦ Gross weight
Used to check storage capacity in warehouse
◦ Net weight
Weight excluding packaging and extras – this is needed for
sales and distribution
◦ Weight Unit
Unit of Measure for weight
◦ Volume
The space that the material occupies per unit of volume
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Material Master
– sales view 1: sales organization
General Data
◦ Base Unit of Measure
The Base Unit of Measure is the unit of measure in which
stocks are managed within your company.
◦ Division
You may enter the Division which your product is in for sales
(defaults if entered in the Basic data screen).
◦ Material Group
A key that’s used to group several materials or services for
analysis/reporting as well as search by match code.
◦ Sales Unit
The unit of measure in which the material is sold, if left blank
then uses the base unit of measure.
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Material Master
– sales view 1: sales organization
◦ Delivering Plant
Plant from which the material is available for sale.
◦ Cash discount
Indicator used for materials, which allow for a
cash discount.
◦ Conditions
Pricing procedure for the material
Tax Data
◦ Tax classification material
The indicator with which the system determines
output tax for the material when processing sales
and distribution-specific documents
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Material Master
– sales view 1: sales organization
Quantity Stipulations
◦ Minimum Order Quantity
Minimum quantity a customer may order.
◦ Minimum Delivery Quantity
• Minimum quantity that may be delivered to a
customer
◦ Delivery Unit
The delivery unit consists of a number and a unit
of measure. In the case of a delivery unit of 30
pieces, 30, 60, 90, and so on pieces can be
delivered, but not, however, 100 pieces.
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Material Master
– sales view 2: sales organization
Grouping Terms
◦ Material Statistics Group
Determine which data the system updates in the
logistics information system
◦ Material Pricing Group
A way of grouping materials to which you want to
apply the same conditions
◦ Volume Rebate Group
Group definition used for rebate settlement.
◦ General Item Category Group
Materials grouping that helps the system to
determine item categories during sales document
processing.
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Material Master
– sales view 2: sales organization
Grouping Terms (continued)
◦ Item Category Group
A grouping of materials that the system uses to
determine item categories during the processing
of sales documents.
◦ Commission Group
Commission group to which the material is
assigned.
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Material Master
– sales view: general/plant view
General Data
◦ Base unit
The unit of measure in which items are managed
in the company
◦ Gross weight
Used to check storage capacity in warehouse
◦ Net weight
Weight excluding packaging and extras – this is
needed for sales and distribution
◦ Availability check
Option to do an availability check for orders and
MRP
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Material Master
– sales view: general/plant view
Shipping Data (times in days)
◦ Transportation Group
Defines materials that have the same
transportation requirements. For example, bulk
stock materials
◦ Loading Group
Defines materials that have the same loading
requirements, such as forklift truck, or crane.
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Material Master
– sales view: general/plant view
Packaging Material Data
◦ Material group Pack Materials
Materials that require similar packaging materials
General Plant Parameters
◦ Negative stock
It indicates if negative stocks of the material are
allowed at the plant
◦ Profit Center
It identifies the profit center in the current
controlling area
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Material Master
- sales view: sales texts
Sales Texts
◦ Sales texts are information to be exchanged
throughout the logistics chain
◦ In sales and distribution, this exchange of
information is supported by texts in master
records and documents
◦ The user may define as many text types as
required for master records and documents
such as:
sales texts,
shipping texts,
internal notes, &
supplement texts, etc.)
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Material Master
– Purchasing View
General Data
• Order Unit
• The unit of measure in which a company
purchases the product
• Purchasing Group
• Key for a buyer or a group of buyers, who is/are
responsible for certain purchasing activities.
Purchasing Values
• Purchasing Value Key
• It defines the reminder days and tolerance
limits for purchasing
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Material Master
– Forecasting view
Number of Periods Required
◦ Historical Periods
The number of historical values the system uses
for the forecast
◦ Forecast Periods
Number of period splits for which a forecast
should be created
Forecast Values
◦ The numeric quantity for future periods
Consumption Values
◦ The sum of planned and unplanned
consumption
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Material Master – MRP view 1
General Data
◦ Purchasing Group
The buyer(s) who are responsible for certain
purchasing activities
MRP Procedures
◦ MRP Type
It determines whether and how the material is
planned
◦ Reorder Point
If stock falls below this point, the system is
flagged to create a planned order
◦ MRP Controller
The person(s) responsible for the material
planning
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Material Master – MRP view 1
Lot Size Data
◦ Lot Size
The lot sizing procedure to calculate the quantity
to be produced or procured
◦ Minimum Lot Size
The smallest order quantity
◦ Fixed Lot Size
The quantity to be ordered
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Material Master – MRP view 2
Scheduling
◦ Planned Delivery Time
Number of calendar days needed to obtain the
material
◦ Scheduling Margin Key
Used to determine the floats required for
scheduling
Net Requirement Calculation
◦ Safety Stock
It specifies the quantity of safety stock whose
purpose is to satisfy unexpectedly high demand in
the coverage period
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Material Master – MRP view 3
Availability Check
◦ It specifies whether and how the system checks
availability and generates requirements for
materials planning
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Material Master – work scheduling view
Production scheduler
◦ It specifies the production scheduler
Production Scheduler Profile
◦ It specifies production scheduler profile
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Material Master – plant data/storage view 1
General Data
◦ Container Requirements
It defines the regulations that govern which type of
container the material must be stored and shipped
in
◦ Storage Conditions
It defines the conditions on how a material must
be stored or warehoused
Shelf Life Data
◦ Minimum remaining shelf life
Minimum time the material must keep upon goods
receipt for the goods receipt to be accepted by the
system
◦ Total Shelf Life
Period of time the material will keep in total, from
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Material Master – Accounting view 1
Current Valuation
◦ Valuation Class
• It allows the stock values of materials of the
same material type to be posted to different
G/L accounts.
• It allows the stock values of materials of
different material types to be posted to the
same G/L account.
• It determines together with other factors the
G/L accounts updated for a valuation-relevant
transaction (Material Movements)
◦ Price Unit
• Number of units to which the price refers
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Material Master – Accounting view 1
Current Valuation
◦ Price Control Indicator
• The price control used to valuate the stock of
a material (e.g., Standard or Moving
Average Price)
◦ Standard Price
• The valuation of material stocks at standard
prices means that all goods movements are
valuated at the same price over an extended
period
◦ Moving Average Price
• The system calculates the moving average
price automatically by dividing the material
value in the stock account by the total of all
storage location stocks in the plant concerned
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Material Master – costing view
General Data
◦ Overhead Group
It assigns same overhead rate to group
Standard Cost Estimate
◦ Future
Planned cost of material in future
◦ Current
Current standard cost of material
◦ Previous
Historical standard cost of material
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Material Master – Costing view
Planned Prices
◦ Future price of material
Valuation Data
◦ Valuation Class
Class type for G/L posting
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