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Material Master Definition

Material Master in SAP is logical representation of our Material, Article, Service, name of goods which we trade. To check physical inventory in system we create logical material in system to get physical inventory detail in system. To purchase a specified goods, we must create material in system to process the purchase order in system.

It could by anything for footwear and apparel industry Footwear Article name is footwear material, Garment Article name is garment material in system, it can be leather, laces, cloth, tape, thread, and button, means to process anything which is related to our goods we must create logical goods in system which is represented by material in sap system.

All information and related characteristics of a material is called material master. Material master is the most important data of our master data in SAP. Anything which is process for procurement or production we need material master first.

To create a Material, we will use Transaction Code MM01.

SAP Material Master Views List

1. Basic Views.
2. Sales Views.
3. Purchase Views.
4. MRP Views.
5. Storage Data Views.
6. Accounting Data Views.
7. Warehouse Data Views.

How to create material Master in SAP MM?

We can create a Material in any view by select only that view, for example you can create a Material with Basic Views by selecting only basic view.

To Create a Material there is some mandatory fields which we need to fill. Before going to select any View, we have screen to fill Material, Industry Sector and Material Type.

1. Material(MARA-MATNR): it can be internal or external number according to configured with material type. For Material Number we have to configured Number range for material. To configured Material Number range we have follow below mention process.

• Transaction Code : MMNR.
• Navigation Path : SPRO-> SAP Reference IMG-> Logistic General->Material Master-> Basic Settings->Material Types -> Define Number range for Material Types.

All these highlighted fields are mandatory, and we must configure all three before going to process of material creation.

Detail Information about all views and its fields.

Basic View- Client Level

Basic Views have only general information about material, some mandatory fields are needed to insert to perform creation action are follows:

1. Material Description (MAKT-MAKTX): It is material description, it can be insert in any language which is configured in system.
2. Base Unit of Measure (MARA-MEINS): It is base unit of measures to manage stock of materials. For footwear (Like Shoes, Socks) and gloves we use pair (PAA), For Garment we use PCS etc.

Table of UOM – T006A.

3. Division (MARA-SPART): It is used to bifurcate our material in group. Division could be created 10, 20, 30, 40 etc. it must be configured before using in material creation.

Table of Division – TSPA.

Transaction Code – OVXB.

4. General Item Category Group (MARA-MTPOS_MARA): It is use in system to indicate effect on Sales and Stock Transfer Processing. Standard Item is commonly used in all systems.

Table of General Item Category Group – TPTM.

5. Material Group (MARA-MATKL):

Table of Material Group – T023.

Transaction Code – OMSF.

6. Weight Unit (MARA-GEWEI).

7. Gross Weight (MARA-BRGEW).

Sales: Sales Org. 1

Sales Organization 1 is first level of Sales View used to store for which plant, sale organization and distribution channel you want create the material and tax indicator is at country level.

Sales: Sales Org. 2

Sales Organization 2 is the second level of sales view, it contains statical and grouping data related information. Mandatory fields are:

1. Material Statistics Group (MVKE-VERSG): It Consist Of statistic group of material which help in business to determine system update in logistic information system. 1 in most system.
2. Account Assignment Group (MVKE-KTGRM): This field is used in accounting requirement of business.

Sales: General/Plant

Sales General/Plant is the third level of sales view, it contains general sales characteristics of material. It maintained at plant level. Mandatory fields are:

1. Availability Check (MARC-MTVFP): This is field is used to check stock availability on selected plant during creation of stock transfer order and sales order. It is one kind of method to check availability of stock, the methods are defined in customization.
2. Transportation Group (MARA-TRAGR): It is used to automatic transportation of material, using transportation group we schedule the route of our sales order and delivery.
3.  Loading Group (MARC-LADGR): It is used to determine shipping point automatically for maintained material.
4. Profit Center (MARC-PRCTR): It is assigned for a material to adequate profit center of material for controlling. Means the profit generated from this material on maintained plant will be assigned to maintained profit center. For example, Material A at plant E001 profit center is E00130 is controlling the profit generated by Material A at plant E001.

Foreign Trade Export

This view store foreign trade and export related information. Mandatory fields are:

1. Control Code (MARC-STEUC): it is also known as HSN Code, code of similar kind of material, it is mandatory field after GST implementation in India, calculate tax accordingly as per government norms. This code is assigned from government created list according to material category.
2. Country of origin (MARC-HERKL): It represent the country of origin for material where it created or produced.

Purchasing View

This view is related to purchase, it stores purchase related fields. Mandatory fields are:

1. Purchase Group (MARC-EKGRP): This field store purchase group code which we configured in organizational structure. For raw material we configured a raw material purchase group, for finished goods we configured finished goods purchase group same as for key group of buyers we created purchase group which handle the specific group of purchase.
2. Order Unit (MARA-BSTME): This fields store the data related on which we placed the order. It is maintained in case of when we use different order unit instead of base unit of measure.
3. Variable Purchase Order Unit (MARC-VABME): It is kind of an indicator which indicates the system base unit will be converted according to order unit value.

Foreign Trade Import

This view is same as Foreign Trade Export.

MRP View 1

MRP 1 View is first level of MRP View as we know MRP View is related to production of material. So MRP 1 handles the information related to production and planning like MRP Group, MRP Controller, MRP Type, Lot Size and ABC Indicator etc. To maintain MRP View you must maintain it in plant along with storage location. Mandatory Fields are:

1. MRP Group (MARC-DISGR).
2. MRP Type (MARC-DISMM): It tells how the material is planned for production.
3. MRP Controller (MARC-DISPO).
4. Lot Size (MARC-DISLS).

MRP View 2

MRP 2 View is the second level of MRP View it stores the information about material should be procured or produce or both, what will be production storage location and what will be storage location for external procurement. Mandatory Fields are:

1. Procurement Type (MARC-BESKZ): It indicates the material will be procured or produced or in state of Both. X for both, F for external procurement and E for In-house production.
2. Production storage location (MARC-LGPRO): It tells the system for production it is issuing storage location of material for planned order.
3. Storage location for EP (MARC-LGFSB): It tells the system when we procured the materials issue from this location for planned order.

MRP View 3

MRP View 3 is third level of MRP View which is basically use for planning of order for production. Mandatory fields are:

1. Period Indicator (MARC-PERKZ): It forecast the period of material Monthly, weekly, daily, or yearly.
2. Strategy Group (MARC-STRGR): It is based on material; it represents the process used for a material to be planning.

MRP View 4

MRP View 4 is fourth level of MRP View used in BOM (Bill of Materials). Mandatory Fields are:

1. Selection method (MARC-ALTSL): When we use bill of materials for creating this material, we will maintain the selection method.
2. Individual Collection (MARC-SBDKZ).

Work Scheduling View

This view contains the information related to scheduling the production and process order of material in specific plant. Mandatory fields are:

1. Production schedule profile (MARC-SFCPF): It define how the process will flow in production and planning.

Plant Data- Storage 1 View

It is maintained for warehouse management; it is managed on plant level. Mandatory fields are:

1. Unit of Issue (MARC-AUSME): It tells the system on which unit material stock will be issued.

Plant Data- Storage 2 View

In this view all fields are maintained in earlier view which we maintain.

Accounting View 1

Accounting view for a material tell the system accounting information of that material, valuation class, price, and price control. Mandatory fields are:

1. Valuation Class (MBEW-BKLAS): It assigned according to material type and material group which we configured with Material type and Material Group.
2. Price Control Indicator (MBEW-VPRSV): It tells the indicator of price controlling which will be V (Moving Average Price) or S (Standard Price). If the indicator assigned with V the price will varies and if indicator assigned with S the price will remain constant.
3. Moving Price (MBEW-VERPR): It is used when we use price indicator as V.
4. Standard Price (MBEW-STPRS): It is used when we use price indicator as S.

Material Master Tables In SAP

Following are the most important tables where stores the data of Materials.

Table Name	Table Description
MARA	General Material Data
MAKT	Material Description
MARC	Plant Data for Material
MVKE	Sales Data for Material
MARD	Storage Location Data for Material
MBEW	Material Valuation
MARM	Units of Measure for Material
MLAN	Tax Classification for Material
MEAN	International Article Numbers (EANs) for Material

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