Document Linkage from Material Master to BOM

Hi friends,
I am having a scenario where in we have attached the material drawing document in the material master we want the same to be reflected in the BOM , the same can be made available in the BOM by manualy assigning the document is there any other method wherein this manual assignment can be avoided?
Best Regards
Abhi

You have to implement document Management module.
then it can be managed no of drawing for a material bom with versions.

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Text linkages from material master to purchase requisition

I already set the text linkage between basic data text in material master with item text in PR. I left fix indicator blank since I want the text to be adopted automatically.
I run MRP and create planned orders. Then I convert planned order to purchase requisition. Material master basic data text is not shown in purchase requisition. I tested using N and * and they both show. With N it shows (reading from material master) and I accnot modify it. With * it shows but I have to adopted to actually store the text as part of this document. With blank is not working. We want the text from material master to be automatically adopted in PR without manual intervention as with *.
Thanks and regards, Jose Oyon.

Hi
If got ur query correctly : you want to make short text field in Preq as Display.
If yes then go to Tcode OLME (or SPRO) -> Purchase requistion->Define Screen layout at doc level->select ME51N--->double click basic data, item and make short text filed as display.
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You have mentioned two different terminologies here.
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Material Description to be overwritten in PR/PO from material master

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when we create a PO/PR from ME51n and ME21n the material description field is mandatory hence inspite of making setting as display only in SPRO the inital screen will except any description and will save it.
Is there any thing else by which the description data can be overwritten from material master so that even if the user enters any xyz description the system overwrites it from the material master.
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Hi,
You can very well achieve it by making the field "Material description" a "Display" field in the IMG path: Maintain screen layout at document level
However, you have to use the right "Field selection key" to make the screen changes. For eg. for NB purchase order, the field selection key would be NBF and not ME21N.
The field selection key that is applicable for the document type can be found in "Define Document types" img activity.
I have checked this and it works perfectly fine for both PR & PO.
Once you enter the material number in PR (or PO), the material description is brought from material master and then the field is greyed out. (thought initially the matl. description field looks editable).
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Prabhu S
Edited by: Rob Burbank on Nov 24, 2011 10:24 AM

Reference a document in the material master

I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a way that we can do the following....
We basically want to have a field/location in the Material Master that will reference a document stored somewhere on a network server and in turn, display and print on the PO (the document name prints, not the contents). Any suggestions of where to start?
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I think you are mixing DMS (document management) with GOS (generic object services)
GOS content is created as shown in your screen shots.
You cannot even see from any transaction which materials have a GOS attachment. The GOS attachment can only be accessed from the object (material master) where it was created.
DMS is a central component in SAP and embedded to the material master like it is done with classification too.
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Please refer the below links.
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Hi Faisal,
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PO text from material master

I understand text maintained in material master appears in PO under that item. In some purchase order I don't want to print that text. Also I don't want to remove that from material master since I want to use that for other purchase orders.
Can I delete or remove that PO text from purchase order without changing material master ?

Hi,
This you can control through copy control function.
In SPRO > Materials Management > Purchasing > Purchase Orders > Texts for purchase orders > Define copying rule from item texts, there select material PO text and give the value for fix field as required.
Based on the fixed indicator, the below mentioned controls can have.
The text can be fixed (indicator "")*
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You change the text and save the document
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The text is not fixed (indicator "N")
The text is only displayed in the document (i.e. it cannot be changed or printed).
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We have a scenario, Inter-company PO with pricing procedure which pulls Material Price from Material Master (Std Price), similar to intra company PO
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Purchase group in Purchase order from creator not from Material Master

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Can you please help me with the next one?
Points rewarded.
In the materialmaster is purchase group 44B entered but
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Jigar Thakkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It will also take effect in FI, as we have defined the same. Status will be 3 (Other transactions + cross-company (orders + billing doc.) for Subsitution in T code 0KEL
>
> Regards,
> Jigar
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Hi Roshan,
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