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Create a material with reference.

Former Member — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:15 GMT

Hi ABAPers,

I have a requirement to create material master record fetching some attributes from the existing SAP materials i.e to replicate the Create with reference feature in MM02

I have tried passing the value of reference material number to PL_REF_MAT parameter in CLIENDATA table of 'BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA'. But still it is not creating with reference.

I have got a solution; that is use of BAPI_MATERIAL_GET_ALL first and then BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA, but it may be a performance issue for my program as i m expecting 60000 materials.

Please propose any other solution.

Re: Create a material with reference.

madhu_vadlamani — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:24:42 GMT

Hi Ankit,

Are you doing from non sap or in sap.The bapi is fine for your requirement.Keep some good coding and see.Check with BAPI_STANDARDMATERIAL_CREATE,MATERIAL_MAINTAIN_DARK.

Regards,

Madhu.

Re: Create a material with reference.

Former Member — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:28:14 GMT

Hi Madura,

So you mean to say is that, i can create a material with reference material number by passing reference material number value to PL_RET_MAT field of the CLIENTDATA table of BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA ?

Re: Create a material with reference.

madhu_vadlamani — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:33:14 GMT

Hi Ankit,

You can try that.

Regards,

Madhu.

Re: Create a material with reference.

Former Member — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:35:13 GMT

Hi Madhurao,

Sorry for mispronouncing your name.

I have tried that, but the BAPI is throwing error. According to you it is technically feasible?

Re: Create a material with reference.

madhu_vadlamani — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:50:26 GMT

Hi Ankit,

What is the error you are getting.

Regards,

Madhu.

Re: Create a material with reference.

Former Member — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:22 GMT

Hi Madurao,

I am putting all the values in the BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA as well as PL_REF_MAT value.

This i am doing for the function code 'UPD' for an already existing material but the attributes like material group etc are not getting changed for this material on the basis of reference material.

Thanks and regards,

ankit

Re: Create a material with reference.

madhu_vadlamani — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:17:10 GMT

Hi Ankit,

Did you check how it is copying from mm01 when you copying material.

Regards,

Madhu.

Re: Create a material with reference.

Former Member — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:08:18 GMT

No , i haven't checked.

For that do i have to do debugging of MM01?