Material Description

[#1]

I am having one material suppose its number is 9000001004

can i give its different material description name.

like material 9000001004 having Computer P4, Core 2 Duo, Core Duo

how can i manage plz help me out

[wavilez]

As everybody else has stated here, you only have those 40 characters.

I wuold suggest using the classification/characteristics to add more information without having to develop or change anything.

In your example, create a material class  called Computers,

then define characteristics like Brand, MOdel, Hard Drive, MEmory, Processor etc.

These are searchable elements.

[Former Member]

- you can have different material description if you use different language keys. so if you log on with different languages system uses the differnt descriptions or you may select the material based on language key while searching. you may create some dummy lanugage keys and assign descriptions against it. but use this option if the requirement is critical otherwise not worth to create language keys.

- In material master, lot of description options are there like basic data text, purchase text, sales text and so many.. you may use this description and most of text has copy rule.. so you can copy texts to other transactions like PR and PO.

- Moreover in transactions like PR and PO you may change the description manually and system will to do so. so you may use that option too.

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[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi,

For one material( one material number ) , you can have only one description, you can have description as long as possible but description should be meaningfull text containing of maximum 40 characters that describes the material in more detail with all properties.

But as needed by you , you can have main material as computor and have components in it with t.code:CS01 by having Bill Of Materials

OR

go for MPN process for your material, check links:

http://iorboaz.blogspot.com/2005/10/sap-mm-pur-manufacturer-part-number.html

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_di46c2/helpdata/EN/75/ee15c655c811d189900000e8322d00/content.htm

Regards,

Biju K

[Former Member]

Hi,

SAP provides two methods for material numbering. One is internal assignment, the other is external assignment. When creating the material master, if leave the material number blank, the system will assign a number automatically, otherwise your entered material number will be checked against the defined number range.

The material number in R/3 is technically defined as an eighteen byte, character field.The logic that formats material numbers is contained in a conversion exit and is controlled by configuration tables, number range objects and standard R/3 customer functions.

Configuration Detail

This configuration setting enables to set up material numbering rule and material number range.

1. Follow the menu path: IMG-Logistics General-Material Master-Basic Settings-Define Output Format for Material Numbers. T-code: OMSL

2. Enter the maximum length of the material number that can be entered or displayed.

a) Material number template controls the format of material numbers, in particular, it defines the positions at which the system is to insert additional characters.
b) Lexicographical defines the way numeric material numbers are stored in the database. This indicator makes it possible to distinguish material number ’000000000000000123′ and ’123′.
c) Leading zeros specify whether a numeric material number is to be shown with leading zeros to fill up its defined length.If lexicographical indicator is set, it is meaningless of leading zero indicator. If lexicographical indicator is not set, the leading zero will be appended to material number for a numeric material number.

3. Maintain the material number range. Follow the menu path:  IMG – Logistics General – Basic Settings – Material Types – Define Number Ranges for Each Material Type. T-Code: MMNR.

General T-Code for SAP number range is SNRO. Enter number range object name ‘MATERIALNR’, it will also lead you to below screen.


4. Create groups. You can group a couple of material types and assign the group to a number range interval.

a) create a new group

b) Assign the group to a number range interval.

c) Assign a material type to the group.

d) Add the defined material number range to a trasport manually.

Thanks & regards

Hemant Patil

[Former Member]

Hi,

Field MAKT-MAKTX uses the domain TEXT40, which is used in about 1474
data elements in SAP system. As this domain is used quite often,
changes made to the length of this field would also be activated fo
r all relevant data elements, tables, views ,structures etc. Due to
these implications, changing this length is not recommended.

1) You could try to use long text instead.

2) Or if you cannot use the basic data long text, you could append a
customer-own field (as described in note 44410) of also 40 characters,
and use it as a 'second row' for the description.

BR

Nadia Orlandi