Objective
This training class covers the master data, which a relevant for Manufacturing. Watch the following video to get a first impression.
You can create and assign standard SAP texts to production planning (PP) basic data objects. You can use the SAP classification system to group PP basic data according to user-defined attributes.
The material record integrates data from different areas of a company. The material maintains all data in several centralized tables, based on relevance to a particular part of the organizational structure. The material is used by all SAP logistics applications.
Various departments in a company work with the same material, and each department wants to store different information on the material. To address this requirement, you can subdivide the material data as per the department to which it belongs, and every area of responsibility can have a material view. In this way, each department has its own material record view and is responsible for the correctness of the data.
Production planning (PP) functions use the data that is maintained in the following views:
This view includes general data, such as the material number, material description, base unit of measure, and technical data.
This view contains the user-defined class assignments for a material.
This view contains plant-specific data that is used in procurement planning.
This view contains plant-specific data that is used in scheduling materials for production.
Whenever you work with material master, you have to take care on the organizational levels.
Some material data is valid for all organization levels, while the rest is valid only for specific levels. The hierarchical structure of the material is aligned with that of the company.
The following elements in SAP ERP directly impact production planning:
The hierarchical structure of the material helps you to manage the material data in the company centrally and to minimize data redundancy.
Some of the main material tables are as follows:
The MARA table in SAP S/4HANA contains the general material data that applies to the entire company. This data is stored at client level.
General material data includes the following information:
The MARC table contains the data that applies to a plant and its assigned storage locations. This data is stored at plant level.
The following are examples of the data in the MARC table:
The MARD table contains data that applies to a specific storage location. The data is stored at storage location level (this is mainly the storage location stock).
The material is a link between several tables, defined by their relationship with the organizational structure.
The following table summarizes the main material tables.
| Table | Data |
|---|---|
| MARA | Client |
| MARC | Plant |
| MARD | Storage location |
| EINA/EINE | Purchasing info record data |
| MAKT | Material descriptions |
| MVKE | Sales data |
| MLGN | Warehouse management |
| MBEW | Material valuation |
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