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Former Member
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Hi all,

Kindly explain, what is the meaning of Basic material

Thanks & Regards

Ravi

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pankaj_singh9
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Hi,

Basic material is the material of which the main material is made of for e.g. Iron, Wood, MS, etc...

You can define Basic Materials in SPRO > Logistics - General > Material Master > Settings for Key Fields > Define Basic Materials

And maintain in "Basic Data 2" view of Material master.

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Former Member
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Basic Material means Basic constituent of the material with grade and standards i.e ( IS/ EN etc. WITH GRADES)

Maintain Basic materials in system

SAP IMG -


> Logistic Generals -


>Material Master -


> Setting for Key Field -


>Define Basic Materials

When you maintain a material master record, any basic material that you specify on the Basic Data screen is checked against the basic materials that you enter here.

Former Member
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Dear,

For Material master 24 views is available. Which is given below.

Basic Data 1

Basic Data 2

Classification

Sales: Sales Org. Data 1

Sales: Sales Org. Data 2

Sales: General/Plant Data

Foreign Trade: Export Data

Sales Text

Purchasing

Foreign Trade: Import Data

Purchase Order Text

MRP 1

MRP 2

MRP 3

MRP 4

Forecasting

Work Scheduling

General Plant Data / Storage 1

General Plant Data / Storage 2

Quality Management

Accounting 1

Accounting 2

Costing 1

Costing 2

In which Basic Data1 & Basic Data2 is called Basic Material.

Which is maintain at client level. This two view is remain same for all plant but other view is changed for different plant as per required.

So it is called Basic Material.

Regards,

Mahesh Wagh.

Former Member
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Dear,

You can use MM03 to view basic data against material..

The basic data contains following imp things..

1.UOM/AUM,

2.Material group

3,devision

4.external material group

5.Mfr part no.

which are the basics for any material..

kunal_ingale
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hi

basic material is the constituent material

]for the use of it refer following

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_01/helpdata/en/ec/62aaaa416a11d1896d0000e8322d00/frameset.htm

regards

kunal

Former Member
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Refers to the views BASIC DATA in MM01