Area: Customer Master
Description
Customer hierarchies represent complex customer structures in the system and are used for the organizational structures of buying groups or chains of retail outlets, for example.
A customer hierarchy consists of individual hierarchy nodes which are allocated hierarchically to each other on different levels to produce lower-level and higher-level nodes. The structure of the customer hierarchy can be kept flexible and adapt to change at any time by means of the option to move hierarchy nodes dynamically.
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Area: Customer Master/Sales and Distribution
Description
Partner function describes the rights and responsibilities of each partner in a business transaction.
You summarize all partner functions that are allowed for a partner object in a partner determination procedure. You then assign a partner determination procedure to a key, for example a sales document type. The partner functions contained in the determination procedure are then relevant in a sales document of this type. In additional to this assignment. a partner determination procedure is valid, for example, for a certain account group customer. Below screenshot shows the partner function list in the customer master.
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Area: Customer Master/Sales and Distribution
Description
Block reason is a factor that blocks document processing of documents. You can define suitable blocking reasons to satisfy your business needs. Then these blocking reasons can be assigned to corresponding document types and used in the SD document processing.
You can also block a customer directly in the customer master. The specification in the customer master record and therefore also the the sales document block is valid either for all or only for individual sales areas.
For the blocked customers in the relevant sales area you cannot create sales document with the sales document type for which this blocking reason is valid. For example, you can block the creation of sales order for a customer but allow inquiry creation.
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Area: Customer Master
Description
The account group is a classifying feature within customer master records. The account group determines:
- in which number range the customer account number should be
- whether the number is assigned by the user or by the system
- which specifications are necessary or possible in the master record
For example, group of one-time customers, groups of ship-to-parties. You can find the account group of a specified customer record by choose menu Extras –> Administrative Data
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Area: Material Master
Description
In this IMG activity, you define the storage conditions for your materials. In the Storage conditions field in the material master, you can then specify one of the storage conditions you have defined here.
In the standard system, this field appears on the General Plant Data / Storage screen in the material master for industry, and on the Basic Data screen in the material master for retail. In both instances, the storage conditions apply to all the storage locations in which the material is stored.
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Application Area – MM
Overview
In transaction MM03, we notice some fields like product hierarchy doesn’t appear in some material types and only be displayed in materials with type finished goods. This kind of behavior is archived by field selection.
In this section, you carry out the following activities:
- Define whether a field is hidden or displayed, or whether an entry is mandatory or optional in material master maintenance by assigning the field to a field selection group
- Create and maintain field references
- Define industry sectors and industry-sector-specific field selection
- Define plant-specific field selection and screen selection
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Application Area – MM, PP, LE, FI, CO
Overview
Process Create Raw (ROH) Material is one scenario building block in SAP Best Practices Baseline Package (U.S.). Technical name is V7A (Create Raw (ROH) Material).
You need this process when a new raw material is needed during engineering/production.
Company roles involved in process flows: Engineering.
Business Process Procedure
1. Create raw material
Go to transaction MM01. On the initial screen, enter material number, Industry sector and material type. Material number can be assigned internally or externally. Please visit my another post about material numbering. If ECM is active, you will need a change number to create a new material.
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Application Area – MM
Overview
Material numbering plays an important role in material management. Every material range from raw material to trading goods must have a unique material number to identity itself in the company. For manufacturing company, there must be a verified material numbering rules to support daily manufacturing activities.
SAP provides two methods for material numbering. One is internal assignment, the other is external assignment. When creating the material master, if leave the material number blank, the system will assign a number automatically, otherwise your entered material number will be checked against the defined number range.
The material number in R/3 is technically defined as an eighteen byte, character field.The logic that formats material numbers is contained in a conversion exit and is controlled by configuration tables, number range objects and standard R/3 customer functions.
Configuration Detail
This configuration setting enables to set up material numbering rule and material number range.
1. Follow the menu path: IMG-Logistics General-Material Master-Basic Settings-Define Output Format for Material Numbers. T-code: OMSL
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Application Area – MM,SD,PP
Overview
Material type is the key that assigns the material to a group of materials such as raw materials, operating supplies or trading goods. The material type has an important role in controlling some material related functions. Below image shows which functions can be controlled by material type.
- Number Range
- Procurement type determines whether the material is pruchased or manufactured in-house.
- User departments defines which views will be displayed in material master.
- Field selection defines whether the fields in material master is hidden or input.
- Account determination determines the account to be posted when material moves in and out of the plant.
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