Duplication of material master by description
Hello All,
I have one requirement. System should not allow me to create the material with the same description twice.
e.g. I have created a material AB01 Desc- Crankshaft. Now when I'm trying to create AB02 Desc- Crankshaft, system should restrict me. How to achieve this? Is there any enhancement or exit?
Thanks in advance,
Piyush
Hi Piyush,
As per standard SAP system, description does not matter. System only recognize/understand generated code. So it is not possible to stop it just description is matching.If you want to create the same then make some changes in its description.
Hope this will resolve your issue.
T & R,
Brijesh
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So, some one can help me in providing the Message Class and No since i was not able to find the message class and no.
Note: Internal Number assignment have been configured for the material type.
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Manojmanoj.ltrm wrote:
hi,
>
> We are EPC company where we procure different kind of Pipes , flanges other erection materials for e.g.
>
> We have a large number of variations under these categories which is forcing us to create a new material master where tere is slight deviation .
>
> e.g. we have a 30" MS PIPE . But it can have dis 32",34".36",thickness 2", 4",6" , iner lining may be of teflon, glass...
> so there are large numbe rof combnation whic can happen. this end up in creating large numbe rof materials.
>
> Is there any way to minimise numbe rof materials in this?
>
>
> Also, we are facing issue of duplication of materials.
>
> For e.g. different Sites may ask for same material . so same material may be created with different description for different sites. Is there any way to standardise material description template?
>
>
> Thanks
> Manoj
Hi Manoj,
The best way to deal with this scenario is to use "Configurable Materials".
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Go thru this thread..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/9f/fb79385feddf6ae10000009b38f8cf/content.htm
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Warm Greetings,
Change Material master Description
Kindly suggest me the best practice
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