Material weight and quantity report

Question

Dear,
Do you know if in standard SAP exists a report able to extract the material good movements and the material weight field to?
For example; something like the MB51 but with the weight field.
Thank you
Regards
Matteo

Answer 1

In SAP standard, movement data is stored in base unit and unit of entry. In Oil&Gas solution, you have table MSEG2 with the movement store in every unit of measure defined for the material. If you have this industry solution, you can access that information.
If that's not your case:
You may create a Query or custom report (custom program) with a calculated field to translate the quantity to the desired UOM.
You can create an Info structure using LIS, where you update your key figures based on an update formula.
You should be aware that above solutions are very different in terms that the first one will perform conversion using current UOM translation data, and the second one, will use the conversion defined at the moment of the document update. This means that if you change your conversion factors during a period, this may have different influences.
Now, regarding the use of querys or custom reports, I have to say that querys are actually customs reports, dynamically defined using the query transaction. But once you generate it, an abap program is created. Sometimes, this type of generated programs have issues regarding performance, because this dynamic generation of the program, not always defines the better design for performance. As you might know, not every table is the same in terms of database access, and talking about material movements, I believe that the information to manage is quite large.
Anyway, its true that you don't require abap programmer if you use query tools, but you have to take into consideration your particular business case to define the best approach.
Hope this helps!