Maintaining a Material Master Record

Since different company areas access a material master record, it can happen that a material master record already exists for other company areas, but has not yet been maintained for your area.

You can use the function Maintain material to add new views to an existing material master record. In contrast to changing a material master record, you add new views to the data records when maintaining. The main difference between maintaining a material master record and creating it, in the sense of adding another view, is that, when maintaining, more selection criteria are available to you. These selection criteria are not available for the function Change and Create.

The maintenance status tells you which department has already maintained the material master record. For more information on the maintenance status of a material master record, see Maintenance Status in the Material Master Record.

Steps:

Use the following steps to maintain a material master record:

1. In the
SD Master Data Screen select, Products ® Material ® Maintain material.

You reach the Extendable Mat.view(s): Initial Screen, on which you can enter various selection criteria, such as maintenance status, plant, sales organization, etc. The entries in the fields displayed offer you a flexible way of searching. You can limit the search by combining criteria and select specifically: you can search for all materials, for example, which have not yet been maintained from a certain view and belong to a certain industry sector. You can combine any criteria.

2. Enter the sales organization for whose materials you want to maintain certain views.
3. Select Execute.

You receive a list of all materials which have not yet been maintained from the view entered (i.e. sales).

4. Select the material you want to edit, by marking it at the left screen border.
5. Press Actions
® Maintain materials.

You reach the department-specific data screens of the material master record, which you can now maintain.

6. When you want to exit the material master record, the system prompts you to save the data.
7. Save your work.

You return to the initial menu where you see the system message

Material exists and is being extended.