Material Master & Article Master

Hi All,
what is difference between Material Master & Article Master???
T. & R.,
S.Singh

Article is the term used by the Retail industry.
If you have IS-Retail activated, you use articles instead of materials, with the views customised to cater to retail industry.
Tcodes for articles: MM41 - Create, MM42 - Change, MM43 - Display.
Check this link http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/12/0846e3470311d1894a0000e8323352/frameset.htm
Edited by: Saurav on Dec 21, 2010 4:04 PM

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See this OSS note : especially the last sentence:
From OSS note 138767
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No planned orders must exist
No purchase requisitions, purchase orders or scheduling agreements must exist for which the deletion indicator is not set
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1) SAP checks this for you. A new button will appear in MM02 and after you click this button to check the error log, you will see which documents exist.
2) I have not seen that an existing movement will restrict the change of a BUoM.
3) No purchase requisitions, purchase orders or scheduling agreements must exist for which the deletion indicator is not set
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4) the previous period is the period before the current period.
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DATA: is_plantdatax TYPE bapi_marcx.
DATA: is_valuationdata TYPE bapi_mbew.
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DATA : is_storagelocationdata TYPE bapi_mard,
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is_clientdatax-manu_mat = 'X'.
is_clientdatax-pur_status = 'X'.
is_clientdatax-old_mat_no = 'X'.
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is_plantdatax-dep_req_id = 'X'.
is_plantdatax-availcheck = 'X'.
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is_plantdata-deploy_horiz = '000'.
is_plantdatax-proc_type = 'X'.
is_plantdatax-determ_grp = 'X'.
is_plantdatax-deploy_horiz = 'X'.
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is_plantdatax-mrp_type = 'X'.
is_plantdatax-plnd_delry = 'X'.
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is_plantdatax-safety_stk = 'X'.
is_plantdatax-mrp_ctrler = 'X'.
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is_valuationdatax-qty_struct = 'X'.
is_valuationdatax-orig_mat = 'X'.
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headdata                   = is_headdata
clientdata                 = is_clientdata
clientdatax                = is_clientdatax
plantdata                  = is_plantdata
plantdatax                 = is_plantdatax
FORECASTPARAMETERS         =
FORECASTPARAMETERSX        =
PLANNINGDATA               =
PLANNINGDATAX              =
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   storagelocationdatax       = is_storagelocationdatax
valuationdata              = is_valuationdata
valuationdatax             = is_valuationdatax
WAREHOUSENUMBERDATA        =
WAREHOUSENUMBERDATAX       =
SALESDATA                  =
SALESDATAX                 =
STORAGETYPEDATA            =
STORAGETYPEDATAX           =
FLAG_ONLINE                = ' '
FLAG_CAD_CALL              = ' '
IMPORTING
return                     = return
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UNITSOFMEASURE             =
UNITSOFMEASUREX            =
INTERNATIONALARTNOS        =
MATERIALLONGTEXT           =
TAXCLASSIFICATIONS         =
     returnmessages             = it_returnmessages
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PRTDATAX                   =
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