Example of How to Change the Material Type

Scenario

You want to produce a material that was only procured externally until now and whose material type is ROH. You now need to assign it to material type HALB. In our example, no stocks exist yet for the material.

Procedure

  1. On the Material Master screen, choose Material ® Change material type.

    2. The initial screen for changing the material type appears.

  2. In the Material field, enter the number of the material whose material type you want to change, and in the New material type field enter HALB .

    3. If you choose Enter, the system enters the old material type in the Old material type field.

  3. Choose Execute.

    4. A message appears telling you that you are changing the material type.

  4. Confirm this message by choosing Enter.

If, due to their valuation class, the two material types refer to different accounts, a dialog box appears asking you to enter a valuation class that is valid for the new material type for all plants or company codes. Confirm the new valuation class by choosing Enter.

Result

A message appears telling you that the material type has been changed.