Configuring the
Material Master
In this section, you can configure the material
master to suit your specific needs. You can do the following:
- Define the structure of the data
screens
Adata screen is made
up of individual subscreens. You can, for example, remove subscreens that you
do not require from a particular data screen, include others from other data
screens, or include subscreens of your own.
- Group screens together to form a screen
sequence
The standard
material master for industry contains the following screen
sequences:
Designed so that as
much data as possible is displayed on a single data screen. This increases the
length of the screen, but reduces their number.
Allows a maximum of
21 lines to be displayed on each screen. It is intended for small
screens.
Presents the screens
as tab pages, similar to a stack of index cards. Each tab page has a tab
title, for example, the name of a user department such as
Purchasing or Sales. It is the screen
sequence preset in the standard system.
The standard article
master for retail contains the following screen
sequences:
Designed so that as
much data as possible is displayed on a single data screen. This increases the
length of the screen, but reduces their number.
Presents the screens
as tab pages, similar to a stack of index cards. Each tab page has a tab
title, for example, the name of a user department such as
Purchasing or Sales. It is the screen
sequence preset in the standard system.
This screen sequence
is for coupons.
- Define the order in which the main screens
and/or additional screens appear
Perform these activities in the order given,
except if you want to include subscreens of your own, in which case first
perform the activity Create Program for Customized
Subscreens .