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Material Group,Product Group

former_member184595
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Hi ,

Can any one explain what is meant by Material Group, Product Group. Where is it used. What is the difference between

Material and Product Group. Do we need to have any prequisites for creating Product Group with Tcode MC84?.

Thanks in advance

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former_member196398
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Aditya,

Material Group:

This is basically a field in Material master Basic data1. This field is available in most of the Purchasing Reporting transactions and you can run reports based on them. Material Group is also used as a reference when creating Purchase Inforecord without any material number reference.

Product Group:

Product Group is a material master of type "PROD". This type of material master can only be used for planning purpose, you can assign finished materials(FERT) as members to them. Example: If you are manufacturing a product which goes in for several type of packings then you create a product group and assign the individual finished product material numbers as members, here we also define the proportional factors for aggregation and disaggregation.

Hope this helps your understanding.

Regards,

Prasobh

former_member184595
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Hi Prasobh,

Thanks for the reply.

What you mean by the proportional factors for aggregation and disaggregation?. What is the use of it and How can we maintain it.?.

Thanks in advance

former_member184595
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Hi Prasobh,

That means for creating a Product Group, we are first creating a material master with Material type as "PROD" and then assigning some FERT materials as members in the tcode MC84. Can you please let me know what are the mandatory views we need to maintain for the material master of PRODUCT Group and do we need to have any specific mandatory views for FERT materials to be members of the Product Group?.

Thanks in advance

former_member184595
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Hi All,

Do we need to maintain any views mandatorily for the material master of Product Group?. Similarly do we have any prequisites for the FERT materials to be a component/ member of the PRODUCT Group.

Thanks in advance

former_member184595
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Hi All,

Do we need to maintain any views mandatorily for the material master of Product Group?. Similarly do we have any prequisites for the FERT materials to be a component/ member of the PRODUCT Group.

Thanks in advance

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madlercm
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These are totaly different entities.

Product group is used in planning, and there are no prerequisits to using it.