Working with Materials in the Validation Phase

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to work with materials in the validation phase

Material Validation

Plant Data

Inside Material Master and Product Master, you are able to add plant-specific data.

The image illustrates the hierarchical levels of data associated with a material in a system, starting with the Client level containing general data like material number, description, units of measure, and technical data, followed by the Plant level with plant-specific data such as MRP, work scheduling, and purchasing data, and finally the Storage location level comprising storage-location-specific data like stock quantities, all tied to the material itself represented by an icon.

Data in the material master record has a hierarchical structure that covers the following organizational levels:

Client
Plant
Storage location

The hierarchical structure of the data makes it easier to organize information on materials throughout the company and minimizes data redundancy.

Engineering data is managed mainly on the client level.

If, for example, you want to add/change plant-specific information inside Product Master, such as MRP data, you first select the plant screen. Then the detailed screen opens.

Inside Product Master, you must select the plant information first, and then the detailed screen opens.

Inside Material Master, you must select first the view and then the plant information you want to change.

The plant data includes, for example:

The MRP view contains plant-specific data that is used for procurement planning.
The work scheduling view contains plant-specific data that is used to schedule the material in production.

You can create the plant data for one plant and then copy it to another plant if similar production processes are scaled in this plant.

Note

The plant-specific product status is in the general data of the plant view.

Material Status: Client ↔ Plant

Now, you want to add plant-specific data to your material. The cross plant status is defined in a way that now makes sense to create a plant-specific status. Inside your plant view, you can also define a status that warns you, an error, or no message in the logistic chain.

The logistic chain always depends on the X-plant and the plant-specific status. Keep in mind that you define the status per plant. So, it could be possible that plant-specific data for plant 1010 and plant-specific data for plant 1020 are prohibited.

Watch the following video to get an overview of how material status can be used.

Work with Materials in the Validation Phase

Introduction: Work with Materials in the Validation Phase

Before the forklift prototype can be manufactured, the data must be checked.

At the moment, only plant-independent data exist for materials and material BOMs. A status is also set, which does not allow the usage inside logistics.

Therefore, master data specialist Maria gets the request to extend this data and make it usable inside logistics.

Task 1: Extend the Main Product with Plant-Specific Information

In this task, Maria extends the existing product master of forklift prototype T-F600. She changes the status and adds data for plant 1010 and plant 1020. At the end, Maria controls the attached documents.

Task 2: Extend Components with Plant-Specific Data

After Maria has extended the header material of the forklift prototype T-F600, Maria also takes control of the other created material data. The status is changed and the data is extended to plant 1010 and plant 1020.

Task 3: Create an Alternative Product with a Template

In this task, product master specialist Maria creates a new product for an alternative drive assembly. She uses a template product and adopts the data.

Now, you have an impression of "Working with materials in validation phase".

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