Best practice: Material Master Description

Warm Greetings,
Change Material master Description
Kindly suggest me the best practice
In my company material master is created like Electricity & water bill for Main building
Electricity & water bill for ware house
Electricity & water bill for Work shop
My finance user is asking Create One material in the name of Electricity & water bill
When ever the requirement comes we will change the description in the PR & IN PO
Kindly suggest me the best practice
Regards
shamulheq

Hi,
You can maintain Description in Material Master PO Text also, which you can print in PO or you can use Additional Data --> Basic data text
Regards,
Vikas

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