Material Group User Manual

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MATERIAL GROUP CREATION

Characteristics Management:

T-Code- CT04

1) In the characteristic field, enter the characteristic like colors, sizes etc. Press Enterand Proceed.


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2) In the Basic Data tab, enter the description of the characteristic you have entered.Choose the data type as Character Format (CHAR) and Number of Chars as 12. Check

on the Multiple Values radio button.

3) Now, in the Values tab, enter the colors to be used in a sequential and chronologicalorder as shown. Similarly for sizes, any value of a size dimension can be entered in

the same chronological order.

4) SAVE.


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Characteristic Profile:

T-Codes:

Creation: CLWE

Change: CLWF

Display: CLWG

1) Enter the name of the profile that will have the characteristics (created in Step 1)created for a material group.


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2) Enter the description of the profile that has to be created in the Basic Data tab.

3) In the Char. Tab, enter the characteristics that have been already created inCharacteristics Management (CT04) to assign specific color, sizes etc to this profile.

4) Enter 2 in the Relevancy Indicator(R).5) SAVE.


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Material Group Hierarchy Level-

T-Codes:

Creation-CLWM

Change-CLWN

Display-CLWO

1) Enter the name of the level that you would want in your hierarchy. For e.g. - Girls OuterWear can be abbreviated as GOW, similarly BOW for Boys outer wear.

All such hierarchy levels except the actual material group are to be first created through this

transaction. For e.g. - Apart from GOW and BOW, B-FASHION can be a hierarchy level

signifying the level Barbie-Fashion.


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2) The description field is mandatory for all levels that are created. In the above case, FOW maystand for Fashion outer wear for example sake.

3) Next, in the char. Tab, assignments of characteristics (Sizes and colors) which are alreadybeen created in Characteristics Management (CT04) is done. Enter 2 as the Relevancy

Indicator(R).

4) SAVE. Material Hierarchy level FOW will be created.


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Material Group Hierarchy Assignment

T-Codes:

Creation: CLW1

Display: CLW2

1) Mention the level to which you would want other levels to be assigned to. The Level whichyou mention here shall act as the parent level for other levels that are assigned to it in this

transaction later.


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2) In this, the levels which are to be assigned to the parent level are entered. So for e.g.M-Fashion will be assigned to SOW or the flow of levels will be from SOW to M-Fashion.

3) SAVE.


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Material Group:

Creation- WG21

Change- WG22

Display- WG23

1) In this, enter the material group name (M-FS-TSL), MG hierarchy level (M-Fashion),Characteristic Profile (SCIL-GOW). Apart from material group, all other data is

created above.


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2) Enter both the description fields as shown. Check the boxes for both the hierarchylevels for reporting purposes. Now, the material group will be assigned to the

hierarchy level M-Fashion which in turn can be assigned to some other higher level,

in this case SOW. Enter the division as required.

The MG ref. Material field is to be entered with the material which will be used as a

reference for this material group. Creating a reference material can be done onlyduring the process of material group creation i.e. T-Code-WG21 which will be

followed in this manual after this step.

NOTE: Reference Material creation is one time process generally, after which all the

material groups are assigned the same reference material number at the above shown

(yellow) field.

3) Click SAVE.


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1) Click SAVE again

1) Material Group M-FS-TSL will be created. Now to create the Reference Material, click thereference material tab in the above screen. User will be directed to the following screen.

Reference Material Creation


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1) In this, Material group and Material Category will be entered automatically from theprevious screen. Select MODE as the Material Type. Choose the required views and

proceed on to create a reference material as per requirements of your division (Miss Pink) or

other criterion. Refer to Article/Material Creation (MM41) to complete the process.

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