3 party logistics transport company - material master creation

I have a scenario where my company is a 3 rd party logistics transport provider. In this i send a truck to my customers location and pickup parcels from them and then i combine these customers parcels into one truck . Then i send it to the destination point from where again i distribute the stocks to individual customers just like a courier company.
Since my company just provides service then what will be my material masters?
Is it just be the parcels the customer sends as single material or the contends inside the parcels or combination of both that is handling unit?

In my view, it would be difficult to consider the contents of packets as these are not restricted to one industry/ company .... i would suggest to go for the packaging units and if client demands you can consider the contents as well in very broad item-group/ type level. You can have consumables as items which you consume doing the job for the customer.

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I have a scenario where my company is a 3 rd party logistics transport provider. In this i send a truck to my customers location and pickup parcels from them and then i combine these customers parcels into one truck . Then i send it to the destination point from where again i distribute the stocks to individual customers just like a courier company.
My question is how do you create shipment for this and what will be preceding documents to create the shipment such as sales order and delivery???
Because in the above scenario i am both the company as well as forwarding agent..

Hi,
Did you give thought of APO's Vehicle scheduling and Transportation module? As in my previous project one transportation company was handling their process very well by this. I dont have much knowledge about APO, just have a search and you may get good hints.
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Last week I went on the BIT601 training course and I'm now tryinig to create my first workflow for material master creation, so please forgive my rather noobish questions. I think this must be a common workflow but I'm sure every company has a different process.
My process is as follows:
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- Workflow is triggered when material is saved.
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- Mail is sent to workflow initiator to inform that material is complete.
- End of workflow
I have defined the start event CREATED from business object BUS1001006 in my workflow definition. I have defined a standard task for the first step in my workflow using bus object BUS1001006 with method Create. The workflow starts correctly however ...
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wow, thanks for the super quick reply Rob!
I figured it must be some binding I had not done.
So ... I go to my Start events in my workflow header, I see I have only the "auto-generated" binding i.e. EVTCREATOR > WFINITIAOR ....
now, I see EVTOBJECT as a possible container object from the event side of the window (left hand side) but what do I link it too? I was kinda expecting to see my business object as a possible container object in the workflow side of the screen (right hand side).
I really hope that makes sense... If I understand correctly, the idea is to link the event object to the business object container element ... but if thats the case why can't I see my business object in the workflow side of the binding window?
Many thanks for taking the time to help a noob
[edit] ... I may have partially answered my own question ... I think I need to define the properties of my business object in my workflow container element such that its is an input field? ...
I'm going home now... will carry on with this in the morning.
Edited by: Neil Ward on Oct 4, 2010 6:17 PM

During Material master creation

hi friends,
in my system during material creation system will through the material number,
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and whenever i entered into mmo1 view screen system counted and throw a material number why and how can i delete the numbers
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hi,
>
Can flag for deletion from
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>
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>
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My requirement is to have approval process for Material master. is it possible.?
My Client is expecting approval process same like PO ( release strategy )
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Yes it can be achieved by Work flow & also through the Enterprise Portal development.
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I would like to create workflow to approve Material Master creation as below:
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Could you pls help me to solve this?
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CH

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Did SAP develop standard adobe interactive form for Material Master Creation?
I heard SAP delivered standard forms for Customer Master and Vendor Master. I am not sure about Material Master Form. If any one knows about Adobe Forms for Material Master... please rerply.
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Check yourself here:
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Standard programs: Standard program for Adobe forms
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manOO

Hi,
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Debjeet Banerjee

There is no direct link of profit center and plant , the profit center is linked with plant via material master.So you cannot default the profit center when you select the plant while creating the MMR.
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Yogesh

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i tried with BAPI_MARC.. my Z field is not coming in that structure.
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Aravindh Mani

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