Creating a Vehicle Model

Use

Every vehicle model that is managed with VMS is described by a configurable material and the appropriate class . Before you can work with VMS you must have created material master records for the vehicle models.

You can find further information in the documentation for Logistics – General under Material Master (LO-MD-MM) .

Prerequisites

Within the project, you have decided on which level you want to define vehicle models – whether as a general vehicle type or as a vehicle type for which some characteristics have already been prescribed via object dependencies.

Procedure

The following only describes fields in the material master record that you require and that are evaluated in VMS. All other required fields are fields that the standard system requires and not VMS. Identical fields that appear in more than one view are mentioned each time they appear.

  1. Choose transaction MM01 in order to create the material master for a vehicle model. Enter plant, sales organization and distribution channel.

  2. Choose the material type for a configurable vehicle ( VEHI ).

    Similar to the material type for configurable materials ( KMAT ), this material type defines that the vehicle model can be configured and, furthermore, (unlike the material type KMAT ), it can be purchased/bought in.

  3. Make entries in the fields as follows:

    View

    Field

    Field Value

    Basic Data 1

    Base unit of measure

    Piece/unit (or the unit for which has been defined – in transaction CUNI – that it is internally and automatically converted to piece/unit)

    Division

    Item category group

    VMS0 (vehicle VMS) (see: Special VMS Master Data in Customizing for Sales and Distribution )

    Basic Data 2

    Material is configurable

    Set indicator

    Classification

    Class type

    300 (variant class), enter model class

    Optional: 001 (material class), enter family class (see: Constructing a Vehicle Configuration )

    Sales and Distribution: Sales Organization 1

    Base unit of measure

    Piece/unit (or the unit for which has been defined – in transaction CUNI – that it is internally and automatically converted to piece/unit)

    Division

    Sales and Distribution: Sales Organization 2

    Across different distribution channels: general item category group

    VMS0 (Vehicle VMS)

    Dependent on distribution channel: item category group

    VMS0 (Vehicle VMS)

    Sales and Distribution: General/Plant

    Batch management requirement

    Set indicator (see: Vehicle )

    Availability check

    No check

    Purchasing

    Base unit of measure

    Piece/unit (or the unit for which has been defined – in transaction CUNI – that it is internally and automatically converted to piece/unit)

    Batch management requirement

    Set indicator

    Manufacturer

    Optional.

    If you enter a Manufacturer here, it is copied as vendor to the vehicle data. You can overwrite it in VMS.

    MRP 1

    MRP type

    No MRP

    Accounting 1

    Base unit of measure

    Piece/unit (or the unit for which has been defined – in transaction CUNI – that it is internally and automatically converted to piece/unit)

    Division

    Value assignment/valuation category

    X (automatic, batch)

    If you want to define valuation category X for a newly created plant, you may first have to enter the following in Customizing for Materials Management under Start of the navigation path Valuation and Account Assignment Next navigation step Split Valuation Next navigation step Activate Split Valuation Next navigation step Local Definitions Next navigation step Categories End of the navigation path and activate Organizational Units: Valuation Category X for the new plant.

    Valuation class

    3100 (trading goods)

    Price control

    Moving average price

  4. Save your entries.