topic Material Creatio in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Material Creatio

Former Member — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:18:01 GMT

I'm planning to load new materials into ECC 6.0 system they are around 50000 of them .

I have options like LSMW or ABAP BAPI program.

Which one do you suggest .

If it is through LSMW do you prefer Direct Input mathod or IDOC or BAPi

If it is through ABAP BAPI can I create external material through BAPI.

I appreciate your suggestions

Thank You

Re: Material Creatio

former_member227140 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:32:55 GMT

hi....

just try creating few materials by using BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA followed by BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT.

hope it will help you.

Re: Material Creatio

Former Member — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:03:48 GMT

go for LSMW BAPI method or IDOC method, both are same create the idocs and very simple....

if you go for Direct Input mathod most of the fileds not availble. if you go for ABAP program you need to spend lot of time write the code and data validation part also very difficult.

Re: Material Creatio

dhirendra_pandit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:51:10 GMT

HI Friend,

See it is better to use the LSMW approach for your requirement.

In LSMW the best method is to use direct input program rather than the BAPI or IDOC.

The Simple reason is that direct input program is much faster than the BAPI and IDOC in case of inbound data upload.

-Dhirendra