Material Ledger - Global Company - impact

Hi,
My company is a Global company integrating all company codes spread accross the world on ecc 6. One among the company code requires, maintaining 'Material Ledger'. We have only one leading ledger. Will this affect material valuation on 'consolidation' in GAAP or IFRS requirements. Will Material Ledger post or adjust COGS A/c. and Inventory account, when end of period valuation process carried out?
Kindly clarify..
Ashok

Hi Ashok,
We are planning to activate material ledger in the ECC 6.0 version. Since you guys have already implemented this, do you see any issues with its activation ?
regards
Kishore.

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A fundamental task of the material ledger is carrying inventories in multiple currencies and/or
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Material inventory values are normally carried by the SAP system in one currency. The material
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