Material Master

What is Material Master
What is Material Type & Different Material Types
How to Create, Change & Display Material Master
Material Master Organizational Levels
Extending Material Master
Units of Measure in Material Master
Material Status in Material Master
Entry Aids in Material Master Maintenance
How to view changes made to Material Master
Views relevant for Production Planning module
Material Master Reports

Material : Substance or commodity that is bought or sold on a commercial basis, or is used, consumed, or created in production. A material can also be a service.

The material master contains information on all the materials that a company procures or produces, stores, and sells.
For a company the material master record represents the central source for data on materials.
The material master is used by all components in the SAP Logistics System.
Every area of responsibility can have a material master view because different user department in a company work with same material and each of these departments to store different information on the material.
Each department has its own material master record view.

Basic Data
Purchasing
Sales
MRP
Work Scheduling
Accounting
Quality Management
Storage
Forecasting
Warehouse Management
Costing
Classification
Stocks in Plant/Storage Location

Material Master Record : It contains all the data required to manage a material. This data is sorted according to various criteria.

Material Type

Materials with the same basic attributes are grouped together and assigned to a material type. This allows you to manage different materials in a uniform manner in accordance with your company’s requirements.
When creating a material master record, you must assign the material to a material type.
The material type determines which business process (such as sales, production, or purchasing) and functions (use of material in BOM or routing) are allowed for material.
Material types are created to manage different according to the company standard requirements, materials with same characteristics are grouped and assigned a material type.
Examples of material types are Raw materials, packing materials, semi-finished products, finished products.

	Material Types
1	Procure	Used In Production	No Sales	Raw Materials (ROH)
2	Procure	Used In Packing	No Sales	Packing Materials (VERP)
3	No Procurement	Produced	No Sales	Semi-Finished Product (HALB)
4	No Procurement	Produced	Sales	Finished Product (FERT)

Different Material Types

T Code : Material Master

MM01 – Create
MM02 – Change
MM03 – Display

Screens for Maintaining Material Master

Initial Level

Main Working Level

Additional Data Level

Material Numbering

Internal Number : 76

External Number : HP Laptop

Material Master Organizational Levels

Extending Material Master

Material Number	Plant
76	1000	Haier Appliances Pvt.Ltd
76	1001	PLANT 1

Unit of Measure

Units of Measure Group

Material Status

Material Status Change at Company Level

Material Status Change at Company Level

Entry Aids for Material Master

Settings : If you don’t want to select views every time, these views should be selected by default. Select these respective views, what you want to view and click on Default Settings

Reference Material

Profiles

Fixed Val. : You can’t change

Default Value : You can change

Collective Entry of Storage Location Data

MMSC – Multiple Storage Extension

Mass Maintenance

MM17 – Mass Maintenance of Material Master Data

In SAP, the MM17 transaction code is used for mass maintenance of material master data. This transaction allows you to change the master data of multiple materials simultaneously, thereby saving time. By using this transaction, you can update specific material data fields in bulk.