Prototype Material Type

[former_member694558]

Hi,

We are thinking of a process wherein the engineering department would have their own material type eg ZENG for all prototyping related materials. This material type would contain only basic data fields such as description, unit of measure etc. At a certain point, when the prototyping effort is completed, these materials would be converted to different types such as ROH, HALB, FERT etc. and would then be used by manufacturing

a) Does anyone have experience with this kind of process and if so what are your thoughts.

b) If this ZENG material is created via CAD integration, and then later on when the material type is changed how would the CAD interface reconcile that?

I appreciate any input.

Thanks,

Rahul

[Former Member]

Hi Rahul,

You don't mention if there will be any purchasing/stock movements or other transaction done for ZENG; because if yes, then you won't be able to change the material type later. For exact limitations read please SAP documentation and notes.

If no, and a change of material type is possible, I don't think that it should have any impact on the CAD integration, as it is done on level of material number, and the number in this case doesn't change.

Regards,

Mario