SAP MM ( MATERIAL MASTER )

MASTER DATA - Master data contains details, stores in a data source for many years and it is used for different application.
MATERIAL - Components are the products that are subject of business activities. Components can be traded, used in manufacture, consumed, or produced.
MATERIAL MASTER is a master file which contains details of a particular material, based on the opinions selected from the customer divisions.

All the details on a fabric that is independent of particular vendors, customers, or production routings, for example, should be saved in a central master history. Each customer division does not have to create its own material master history as this would result in needless data redundancy. In order for personal divisions to be able to access the details appropriate to their needs as easily as possible, the details should be grouped according to place of use. This can also mean that a piece of details (data field) is displayed in different opinions.

The material master history is an enterprise's primary source of material-specific data. It is used by all places of strategies. The integration of all material data in a single data source object eliminates the problem of details redundancy. All places, such as buying, stock control, materials preparing, and invoice verification, can together use the details saved.

The data saved in the details master history is required for many reasons, including the following:

• Purchasing details is required for ordering purposes
• Inventory control details is required to post products movements and carry out physical inventories
• Bookkeeping details is required for material valuation
• Components preparing details is required for material requirements planning

Since different customer divisions within an business work with one material, and each division enters different details relating to it, the details in a fabric master history is divided according to place of use. Each customer division thus has its own perspective of a fabric master history and is responsible for maintaining the details covered by this perspective.

The data displays used to procedure material master records can be divided into the following types:

• Main data - These are the displays for the person customer divisions, such as basic data, materials preparing, and so on.
• Extra data - These are the displays on which you find more details, such as alternative units of measure, material short explanations, and consumption values.

The data maintained within a perspective may be legitimate for different business stages.

Some material details is legitimate for all business stages, while some is legitimate for certain stages only. So that the details data can be administered centrally, without needless load on the data source due to repetitive details, the details master is organized in such a way that it shows the structure of an business. For example, a distinction is made for:

Data at customer level: General material data that is legitimate for the whole business is saved at customer stage.
Data at place level: All data that is legitimate within a place and for all storage space locations belonging to it is saved at place stage.
Data at storage space place level: All data that is legitimate for a particular storage space place is saved at storage space place stage.

The above-mentioned business stages are appropriate for the external procurement procedure. Client, place, and storage space place be a factor when you enter data for buying, stock control, and accounting. Other business stages can be appropriate for other divisions. For example, the revenue and submission details is entered based on the revenue organization and the submission channel and you must specify a factory number and storage space type for the factory control data.