Multiple group - single material master data

[#1]

Dear friends ,

I am doing material master data as follows.

Ex. Water Bottle - Material Group - may be (Aqua) or (Bislary) or (Saiganga) or (Balley).

means when i will make material master it will become 4 material master with 4 group as bellow.

1) Water bottel-Aqua

2 )water bottle-Bislary

3 )Water bottle-Saiganga

4) Water bottle-Balley.

By my requirement is that it should be only one material master code , with facility of 4 material group.

Whatever i need i will select at the time of PO.

Regards,

Mahesh.

[Former Member]

Mahesh,

"Material Group" is not intended for this purpose.

Material is intended to be a subset of Material Group, e.g. for one MG you can have many Materials, but for one Material there can be only one Group.

You, however, seem to be looking for an object that is a subset of Material, e.g. for one Material you can have many 'objects', but for one 'object', there is only one Material.

I recommend that you investigate the suggestions already offered by other experts. Also, depending upon your business requirements, you can also look at 'Customer Material' or 'Vendor Material'.

Best Regards,

DB49

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi,

You just go for single material code creation as WATERBOTTLE and then as you needed, you can go for Split Valuation where same material WATERBOTTLE at a plant can have different stock quantity and value for different groupings {(Aqua) or (Bislary) or (Saiganga) or (Balley)}

http://www.sap123.com/a/29/#split-valuation

OR

Go for Batch Management where you are just subdividing the material WATERBOTTLE according to the characteristics{(Aqua) or (Bislary) or (Saiganga) or (Balley)}

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ERPLO/Batch+Management

Regards,

Biju K

[former_member131774]

You want to use 1 material master with 4 material group?

Could you try configuable material?

[Former Member]

Hi Vincent,

You are right.

single material master with four material group.

Regards,

Mahesh

[JL23]

Hi Vincent,
> 
> You are right.
> 
> single material master with four material group.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mahesh

the other way around would be logical, water is common group for 4 different types of material

it is not possible to have 4 material groups in 1 material.

you can theoretically create 4 batches, external batch number, to have the batch number like your desired group name.