How to transfer additional, plant-specific Material Master fields to GTS?

[former_member733571]

GTS experts,

I have a business need in my current project, to transfer additional, plant specific material master fields (ex: purchasing group) from ECC to GTS. The business team wants to use this info in the classification worklist, so different individuals will be responsible to classify materials belonging to, say different purchasing groups.

I am familiar with the config & user exit change to transfer additional fields from the Basic view, but am not aware of any standard (or easy) option to transfer more fields from the plant specific views. So just wanted to see if anyone came across this need before and successfully accomplished it.

In case the only option is custom ABAP solution, could someone suggest what would be the easiest / recommended approach to solve this?.

In case this is not a good idea in the first place, and I should push back on the business team (which is one of the options I am considering as of now) please let me know if you can think of possible reasons for that. (One reason I can think of is - Classification is at a material level setup rather than a material-plant level setup. So logically it doesn't make sense to introduce plant level data in this process).

Appreciate any insights you could share. Thanks in advance

-Raj

[former_member215181]

Hi Raj,

As I think you can recognise, there is no concept of Plant level in the GTS product master record, and therefore no way to realise that requirement. Suggest you push back, and/or try to get the business to explain the requirement in terms that make sense from a GTS perspective.

Regards,

Dave

[former_member733571]

Dave,

Thanks for your inputs. Yes, I am going to push back to business unless there is a straight forward solution is feasible without extensive programming.

Mouaz,

Your idea is definitely an option and I may try that as last resort, if business insists, unless there is a better alternative.

Carsten,

It appears that you have accomplished exactly what I was looking for, although you didin't specify as much details. Could you please tell me which plant-specific fields you transferred over to GTS and which GTS table those fields were stored in (standard vs custom table/fields?), etc...

Thanks again,

-Raj

[mouaz_benredjeb]

Hi Raj,

The business requirement seems to be to segregate the classification process based on the purchasing group which is a plant level for instance.

What you could do is use one the product's attributes to "concatenate" the different values of the purchasing groups of the different plant views.

E.g. You have a material for plants C, B and C and the purchasing groups are P1, P2, P3 for each plant respectively. You concatenate then the values in one of the attributes of the product in order to have "P1-P2-P3".

Then, the person responsible for the classification of one these purchasing products will use the attribute as a selection criteria and look for his own attributed value. E.g. the person responsible of the classification of the products belonging to purchasing group P2 will call up the classification WL with attribute Purchasing Group = *P2*.

Regards.

Mouaz BEN REDJEB

[former_member256034]

Hi Raj,

we do transfer plant specific material data using an internal table in ERP to store data from marc where change pointers have already been created. Then we use FB

/SAPSLL/API_6850_SYNCH_MASS

to tranfer them to GTS, where mapping and logging is taking place. We now have an additional tab in the product master screen with the plant reference and also could use the plant information as additional selection fields in the classification transaction.

Best regards,

Carsten