DATA IN SAP
MASTER DATA
Ex: At the time opening of a bank A/c the
banker will create a Customer Info record.
It is a master data
Once the data entered
in this form it rarely
changes
TRANSACTIONAL DATA
It uses the master data
Ex: Bank statement for a period is transactional
data
TRANSACTIONAL DATA
Transactional data uses the master data
DATA IN SAP MM
MATERIAL MASTER RECORD
In this session we can able understand
What is Material?
What is Material Master Record
IMG settings of the Material Master
Tcodes for Material master
Creation
Change
Display
List of Material Masters
How to create material master record
- By using internal no assignment
- By suing external no assignment
- By using Alphabetic
- Byy using Alpha numeric
- by using Numarals
How to change the material master
How to Display the material Master Record
How to Copy/externd the material to other plant
WHAT IS A MATERIAL ?
What is a Material ?
It is the smallest unit in a
industry which uses to
make a product
It is a tiny part of the
product
It can not be further
divided
Ex. For materials are
Tire, tube and rim
Nut, Washer, Pin, Nail
Screw driver, wrench
Power drill gun
Plastic Items
WHAT IS A MATERIAL ?
Car covers
First aid kits
Wind shields
Foot mats
Breaking system
WHAT IS A MATERIAL ?
Hydraulic Press
MATERIAL MASTER RECORD
MATERIAL MASTER RECORD
What is material master record?
It is a record consists of
completer information of a
specific material
It may consists of
Material Name
Base Unit of Measure
Alternate unit of measure
Material Number
Material type
Material Group
Gross Weight
Net weight
Purchase group
Price Control indicator
Valuation class
Price of the material
MATERIAL NUMBER
Why Material Number is required for material
master ?
To uniquely identify a specific record among the
other records
To classify a group of materials
MATERIAL NUMBER
The default length of the material is 18
How ever you can change the length of the material
number
Leading zeros can be assigned during printing
Required template for material number can be
assigned
MATERIAL NAME
Every material will have some name to identify
and call
In SAP Material master record you can enter a
material name with 40 character length with
alphabetic, numeral and special characters
BASE UNIT OF MEASURE
Every material in the universe will be measured
with certain measurement
Our scientists named different unit of
measurements to different materials
Ex: Milk – in liters, Wire in meters
Ricein Kilograms or Pounds
Books as each item
Nuts in Pieces or numbers
ALTERNATE UNIT OF MEASURE
MATERIAL TYPE
Material categorized based on its attributes
(purpose) can be called as Material Type
SAP Standard Material Types are
ROH – Raw Material
HALB – Semi-finished product
FERT – Finished Product
HAWA – Trading Materials
ERSA – Spare Parts
Like there are around 37 material types have been
defined by the SAP
MATERIAL GROUP
Materials categorized based on its characters
can be called as Material group
Ex: Plastic group
Metal group
Rubber group
Liquids group
Glass Group
PURCHASE GROUP
An individual or a group of people who are
responsible to take care of procuring activity of
a material can be called as Purchase Group or
Buyer group
Ex:
Peter is a purchase group
TPG is a Purchase Group
PRICE INDICATOR
It is an indicator which controls the system to
calculate the price of the material
There are two types of Price control indicators
Standard Price
Moving Average Price
VALUATION CLASS
It is a sub category to each material type in
Accounts
It is related to A/c category reference
SAP std. Valuation classes for Raw material are
3000,3001,3002,3002,3003
However you can create your own valuation classes
also
PRICE OF THE MATERIAL
It is an approximate price or a budgetary price
Enter price in material master record which is
help full during sub contract scenario and initial
stock entries concept
IMG SETTINGS : MATERIAL MASTER RECORD
1. Define Output Format In this step we can set the
of Material Numbers number of digits for the
material Number.
SPROIMGLogistic
GeneralMaterial Then maximum no of digits
MasterBasic allowed by the system is 18
SettingsDefine Output You can set the leading
Format of Material Zeros for your material
Numbers Number
You can also set the
template for your material
number
There is a provision for
setting to lexicographical
option
IMG SETTINGS : MATERIAL MASTER RECORD
2. Maintain Company Before stating your
Codes for Materials configuration you should
Management set
SPROIMGLogistic
GeneralMaterial
MasterBasic
SettingsDefine out
format for the Material
Number
