Help needed in seeing the material master.

Hi all,
How can i see the sales area info in a system. i.e. what material is assigned to what sales area, the mapping between the sales org., distr. channel, division and plants? I ask this because when I see some tabs/views in mm03, it asks me the sales area info and I dont know what to give there.. so in effect i get to see only some views in the material master.
Thanks,
Charles.

Hi Charles,
If you want to know all those materials which have a Sales View, you can go to
MARA table and search for all those materials that have a 'V' in MARA-PSTAT field. Later you can use MM03 to see the sales data for that materials.
Procedure:
se16 transaction.
Give V in PSTAT field n selection criteria. and execute.
Regards,
Ravi

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Please check follwoing links
[MM01- Industry Sector;
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/ff/515b3149d811d182b80000e829fbfe/content.htm]
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Janet,
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M_MATE_STA
Definition
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Fields               Possible values      Meaning
ACTVT                01                   User may create data.
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Storage                           L
Forecasting                       P
Quality management                Q
Warehouse management              S
Sales                             V
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Below links can help you
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/4d/2b8bd043ad11d189410000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1783839
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/2d/350a19448c11d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://scn.sap.com/thread/2046143
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/2d/350a19448c11d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm
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