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Material Master
Let us understand sales data in material master (MM)
Key fields here are
Unit in which product is sold. Example Product canbe sold in
bottles but it can be produced in gallons.
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It restricts selling of the material in all distribution
channelsas per the reason selected from the list below.
Material can be restricted for specific distribution
channel.Reason list It could be the same as above for
cross-distribution-chain
Theses statuses can have validity dates, as products may
berestricted as there is technical defect and engineeringdepartment
is working to resolve the same
Plant, which will get defaulted in the sales order item.Sequence
for this would be
1.Customer-material inforecord2.Customer master-sales area
data3.Material master-Sales views
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UTXJ is the tax category applicable to the material in US andso
need to be configured in customizing.Enter tax classification
applicable to the material. Taxclassification can be defined in
customizing as below.
Minimum qty at order item level or delivery item level can
be
controlled here.Example from the point of view of logistics and
cost pointof view, order for certain materials can be taken only
forminimum quantity OR delivery can be done with certainminimum
quantity due to packaging and transportconsideration.
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- Relevant for update for statistics
- It can be used for pricing
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- Relevant in Revenue account assignment
- Used for item category determination
In the standard SAP R/3 System, the product hierarchy canhave up
to 3 levels, each with a specific number ofcharacters.
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- To classify materials
and are expressed in the unit of weight
- Checking group in combination with checkingrule can control
the scope of check for availability.
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- This needs to be checked so that thematerial will need to be
in batches during sales processing.
- A grouping of materials that share the similarrequirements for
transportation
- A group of materials that has similar loadingrequirements. It
is used in the determination of shippingpoint
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- It groups together that require similarpackaging materials
- If the material is to be managed in serialnumbers then serial
number profile should be entered here.
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