Article master.... HELP

[#1]

Guyz!!!

I'm basically an ABAPer.

I haven't worked with ny retail industry so far...can u guys please brief me about this ARTICLE and article master data n all...

I dont even know what an atricle is....can ny1 start from what is an article...

Regards,

Zid.

[csaba_szommer]

Hi Ziden,

If you think of material master records please confirm it.

Material master represents (uniquely identifies) goods (raw materials, semifinished goods, finished goods, trading materials, etc)

You can create material master in MM01 (one by one, or you can import them through LSMW as I know).

You can copy the new mmr from an existing one, you can give the reference material in MM01.

Material master records have different views (basic, sales, MRP, Purchasing, WM, Accounting, etc)

Also in MM01 you can extend your existing material master record for storage location, WH, plant, etc, and you can create brand new views for them.

You can change mmr in MM02, view them in MM03, list them in MM60. If your mmr are out of use, or you want to get rid of them you van mark them with deletion flag in MM06 and later you can archive them.

If you want to change them in mass, you can use transaction MM17.

Please check the following links:

SAP help

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/ff/5159e749d811d182b80000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

Customizing

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/36/72369adc56d11195100060b03c6b76/frameset.htm

MM tables

http://www.erpgenie.com/abap/tables_mm.htm

MAKT Material Descriptions

MARA General Material Data

MARC Plant Data for Material

MARD Storage Location Data for Material

MAST Material to BOM Link

MBEW Material Valuation

MKPF Header- Material Document

MSEG Document Segment- Material

MVER Material Consumption

MVKE Sales Data for materials

Useful information

http://www.sap-img.com/

(e.g. archiving: http://www.sap-img.com/bc003.htm)

BR

Csaba

Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Feb 12, 2008 12:21 PM

[Former Member]

Hi

In the case of the Retail solution, the central object in all logistics processes is the article, whereas in industry it is the material.

Retail and industry have different needs in terms of the corresponding master data and maintenance options. For example, to optimally process all its fashion processes, retail needs variants (such as color and size). Industry, however, uses bills of material for special requirements in the area of production planning. Due to the large number of articles in the retail industry, master data maintenance must also be integrated into processing.

To best support the different processes in retail and industry, ECC provides different maintenance transactions for materials and articles. Unlike the material master, the article master contains the following additional points:

· Specific additional data is integrated, for example, purchasing info records, listings and sales price calculations.

· Several organizational levels, for example, sites and distribution chains, and for generic articles several articles, can be processed online in one single maintenance transaction.

In the material master you can process only one material or one plant at a time, but in the article master the system transfers data from higher levels to the dependent levels, provided you have not maintained these differently. For example, the system transfers data from a generic article to all its variants. It also transfers data from reference sites to individual sites.

To set up your default start transaction, choose System - User profile - Own data. On the Defaults tab page, enter W10T in the Start menu field and choose Save.

You can only use the full set of functions for SAP Retail if you have configured your system as an SAP Retail system