Attribute of Material Type

[Former Member]

Dear Sapusers

What are the Attributes of material type can you focus on this please

Rgds

Ana.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Define attributes of material types

Each time you create a material master record, you must assign it to a material type . You use the material type to define the attributes of a material master record. Material types are used in the following neighboring areas, where they are also configured in Customizing:

• Profit Center Accounting

• Product Cost Planning

• Sales and Distribution (availability check)

• Valuation

• Bills of material

• Routings

Consult with these areas if necessary.

In this IMG activity, you define the attributes of each material type.

• Under Views, you specify the following:

o Material type text

o Material type key

o If required, an authorization group to protect access

o Procurement type allowed (internal and/or external)

o Check of number ranges if material numbers are assigned externally

o If required, a default value for the item category group in sales data (consult with Sales and Distribution)

o Whether materials of this material type are costed with a quantity structure or not

o Views and relevant fields that may be processed; that is, the user departments that may maintain a material master record of a particular material type

• Under Quantity/value, you specify the following:

o Any special processing allowed

o Management on a quantity or value basis and, if so, in what valuation areas

o Price control (standard price or moving average price/periodic unit price)

• Under Account assignment, you specify the following:

o Information on how the material is assigned to the stock and consumption accounts in Financial Accounting

Once you have maintained the material types, you must also define the number intervals before you can create a material master record.

Actions

1. Group the materials that you want to manage together in the SAP R/3 System according to the above criteria.

2. Define the attributes of each material type.

3. Adapt the preset material types to suit your company's needs, defining new types if necessary.

o Give each material type a key.

o Enter a text for each material type.

o Define the attributes of all new material types.

Note 1

If you allow different quantity/value updating, you must activate the material type for each valuation area for this updating. You do this under Diff. val. areas.

Note 2

In Customizing for Valuation and Account Assignment, you can also maintain the price control by choosing Define price control for material types.

for any further info , pl refer below link

[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/fr/87/23ee347a34d111a4620060b03c3b0e/frameset.htm]

[kunal_ingale]

hi

Attribute of Material Type is nothing but the settings for each materiial type,

like quantity and value update is an attribute which differs for stock items and non stock items

or valuated and non valuated material

u can check it in OMS2 for the material type ROH and UNBW or ROH and NLAG

similarly u can find out other attributes in OMS2

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_di46c2/helpdata/EN/87/23ee347a34d111a4620060b03c3b0e/content.htm

regards

KI

[JL23]

any setting you do in OMS2 is an attribute.

e.g. the selected views.

the price control

how you do quantity and value updating

if the material is configurable

if the material is to be procured externally or internally

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