Hiding material types

Hello gurus,
we do not need all standard material types. But I would not like to completely delete them in case we needed them in the future.
Unfortunatelly our users get confused by all the unnecessary entrys in the drop down list at material master creation (MM01). Is there any way to hide material types in that list?
Thanks in advance
Alicia

Dear,
Dont think there is any way by which you can hide material types, as material type is the basic requirement, depending upon which material is created.
End users should be made aware of using right material types/its consequences and effects and should be given proper training.
Try to put an authorization group on each type you don't use and make it impossible for anyone to use them.
If your Basis team able to create transaction variants for you. Then don't allow anyone to have MM01 and instead only allow the variants. In this way you can also separately control/assign who creates raw mats, finished goods, intermediates, etc..
If you do not assign any number range for these material types, when user trying to create system gives a message as 'NO. RANGE NOT EXISTS.
And finally, a simpliest way is mark the material types which you dont want to use 'DO NOT USE' and later on can be changed.
Regards,
Syed Hussain.

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