MATERIAL MASTER

SAP MM Module
 TCode –MM01

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 Material Code which you want to create.
It can be internal or external

Industry nature like Mechanical,

Electronics

It shows Material nature &

attributes. Link with Finance.

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 Integrated Material views depend on
Material Type & Business
transaction

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 Plant where you want
to create Item

Location where you

want store Material

Sales org. which is responsible

for sales, used if Material is
saleable

Define Distribution channel for

which type of sale. Use in
financial & sales report

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 A way of grouping materials,
products, or services. Use in sales
area
This field use for use old Grouped together same char.
ERP number or reference Material. Use for report purpose
material

Materials grouping that

helps the system to
determine item
categories during sales
document processing.

Weight

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Sales Org. 1 View: You have to fill ->

a. UOM: fill UoM for sales

b. Sales unit
c. Division
d. Material group
e. Tax classification for CST & VAT – for FI entries

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Sales Org. 2 View: you have to fill ->

a. Acct. assignment Grp. – this is belong to your FI entries

b. Item cat. Grp. – it’s define your item behavior

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Sales general Plant View: you have to fill ->

a. Net Wt. – net wt. of item

b. Gross Wt. - Fill gross wt (if available)
c. Availability check: for MRP
d. Transportation Grp.
e. Loading Grp.
f. Profit Center: for FI

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 Purchase
Order unit
Purchaser

Maker Checker
functionality

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Tarrif Id,use in finance Material can be sent to
subcontractor

output material
you will
produce using
this input
material.

Number of GR against Excise invoice and Cenvat credit Immediately

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ABC Indicator: This is an indicator showing the importance of the material in terms of stock availability. Most
of the companies use several ABC values, but most common are: A – the most important materials, they need to
be available for sales in every moment customer requests it, B – less important materials that are often supposed
to be available but the lack of this material can happen and is allowed, C – Least important materials.

MRP Type: Key that determines whether and how the material is planned. You have the following options:
Manual reorder point planning, automatic reorder point planning. It should be PD – default MRP

MRP controller: MRP controller responsible for production of this material, he manages all the data in these
MRP views, along with the MRP results itself, production planning for this material etc.
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Lot size: defines the procedure used by the system in order to calculate the procurement or production quantity
of the material.

Procurement type: Here you can choose if your material has internal production (our case), external
procurement, or both types of procurements are possible. It also mightn't have procurement at all.

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Production storage location: Here you will maintain the storage location that is copied throughout the
production documents. If this is a production component this marks the location from which the goods issue is
posted, or if it's produced material it annotates a location to which the material receipt is posted.

Back flushed: Each material component is assigned to an operation in the production order. If a material
component is back flushed, the system posts the withdrawal only upon confirmation of the operation. The
withdrawal is then posted automatically.

Schedule margin key: This represents a key used for determination of the floats required for scheduling an
order.
Safety stock: The safety stock specifies the quantity whose purpose is to satisfy unexpectedly high demand in
the coverage period.

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Period Indicator: indicates if material is to be planned/forecast monthly, weekly, yearly, daily etc. This is in
most cases set to monthly.

Strategy group: The strategy group groups all the planning strategies that can be used for a particular material.
The planning strategy represents the procedure used for planning a material and is controlled by the MRP types.

Availability check: Specifies whether and how the system checks availability and generates requirements for
materials planning.

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Selection Method: if you are using BOMs (Bill of Materials) for your production, you could go with the
selection of alternative BOMs with this field. You can set selection type by order quantity, production version,
and explosion date.

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Production supervisor: production supervisor responsible for controlling the production of a material.

Production scheduling profile: specify that certain business transactions are carried out in parallel in a
production order, trigger an automatic goods receipt, specify an overall profile for capacity leveling etc.

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 Store unit of issue

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Inspection type: The inspection type defines how an inspection is performed. Several inspection types can be
assigned to an inspection lot origin as below

Inspection type Inspection type description

1 Goods Receipt Insp. for Purchase Order
2 Goods issue inspection
4 Goods receipt inspection from production
5 Inspection for other goods receipt
6 Inspection for returns from customer
10 Insp. for delivery to cust. (w/ order)
14 Inspection in Plant Maintenance
89 Other inspection

Preferred inspection type: the system creates preferred inspection lots with this inspection type for the
corresponding inspection lot origins.

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Active: inspection lots can be processed for this material and inspection type.

Every material type have different valuation

class, It hits to G/L account.

Moving Price and standard price, use to valuate the stock of a material.

Press Enter & Save.

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