Best Design for Master data

hi,
I would like to get your suggestions on the data modelling:
I have material, mat_plant and mat_sales.I need to create reports on these master data. But when i created a infoset on those 3 master data, one of my key figure "amount" is becoming 10 times like 1 line for material 10 lines for mat_plant and as a result the report is showing the key figure values 10 times of original value.
Please advise what would be the best way to go...
Thanks in advance...

Adi,
You will get 10 lines only. I guess you have 10 plants for that perticular Plants or sales.
It should come reporting requirements. Please let us know what do you want to report?
relation between 3 master data objects is... 1:N:N (0Material:0MAT_PLANT:0mat_sales).
You can't avoid it... restrict by plant....
Nagesh Ganisetti.

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Hi...
1. how can I find the those delta requests because I need to delete all these failed requests first, am I right ? Master data is not like cube or ods that we can find the requests in Manage, for master data how can we find them ?
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