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.
 SPROIMGLogistic
GeneralMaterial  Then maximum no of digits
MasterBasic allowed by the system is 18
SettingsDefine 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
 SPROIMGLogistic
GeneralMaterial
MasterBasic
SettingsDefine out
format for the Material
Number