Impact on if you change in material group

Hi,
Change in Material groups in Material master - System will not update the PR,PO,Stock
Have to change all the documents to update the New Material groups.
Update Material master by LSMW

hi
Impacts of changing material group
1) If ur release strategy is based on material group it needs to modify ( Material group as charactaristics)
2)If u r trying to extract any reports based on material group u will find discrepency bet reports as u r changing M.Group in betn.
3)The data in the Info systems and BW etc. are updated with the the "old" material group and so if you tried to compare them you would find differences.
changing M . Group will not cause any major prob. but only reporting problems
Vishal...

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If you change the Material groups in Material master the system the system will not update the PR/PO/Stock or others.
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Think of that if you have huge data then it is very difficult to change all the documents. if the data is Less you can proceed .
Instead of deleting old material groups just add the new material groups and use them in future for all your process.
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I am assuming that you are not using the material master and trying to default the G/L account using the material group.
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Procedure
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Issue- System not changing the G/L account when material group is changed in Purchase requistion.
Process followed:
1. Create Service Pr with material group 5040 which is assigned to valuation class 3511 and 3511 is assigned to g/l account 51370000
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Kind Regards
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