MB1A - how can search material by material number quickly??

Question

In our company ,When  post goods issue for production order with MB1A, people have to change quantity for some items. But if I want to find certain item, I need page down or page up to find this item,but there many components some times more then 100 in one production order, this is very large workload. And when use position cursor function,we could only find the item by the item number,it is helpless.
By the way ,I know use MIGO to production order ,we can search material easlily！But for authorization purpose ,because MIGO can do more than MB1A, we restrict MIGO not to use goods issue for production order.
How can search material by material number quickly in MB1A?By what ways?
Or search the material by the material number by some ABAP development?Are there any user exit fit this?
Or are there any other third party software can help do this?
Thanks for any reply!

Answer 1

Well MB1A is not a user friendly program, but you need to understand that this program is a real old one which is in place from the earliest versions of SAP, so it has its limitations.
To overcome them, SAP has now has a new program namely MIGO, which is very user friendly & highly customizable to user's needs. So i would strongly suggest to use MIGO with the proper authorizations you can prevent users from mis-using the program.
Alternatively you can use co27, which is also quite flexible & very useful.
Hope you have the requisite info now & can make an informed decision as to which suits your need best.
Regards,
Vivek
Added
To the best of my knowledge MB1A does not support the find function, i tried it quite many times, but each attempt was a futile one & hence have now moved over to MIGO & CO27, both work perfectly fine
Edited by: Vivek on Mar 20, 2009 9:55 AM