Document Management 
Note
The information contained in this info object is relevant to the material master for industry and to the article master for retail. Retail customers are requested to substitute article for material .
Use
A material may have various documents such as drawings and photographs assigned to it. The system differentiates between these documents by means of the document type. If your company uses SAP’s document management system, you can manage documents and assign existing documents to a material in the material master record. Document data is managed at client level.
Features
In the standard system, the document type
Design drawing
is preset as the standard document type, though, if required, your system administrator can define a different standard document type in Customizing for the
Material Master
by choosing
BasicSettings 
Make Global Settings. 
If one document of the standard document type has been assigned to the material, the details are displayed directly on the Design documents assigned subscreen. In the standard system, this subscreen appears on the:
Basic Data screen in the industry system
Other Basic Data screen in the retail system
You access the Other Basic Data screen from the Basic Data screen by choosing Other basic data .
If the document is not of the standard document type, the
No link
indicator is set on the
Design documents assigned
subscreen. You can display such documents by choosing
Additional data Document data
. The
No link
indicator is also set if a document has not yet been assigned to the material.
If more than one document of the standard document type has been assigned to the material, the
Several links
indicator is set on the
Design documents assigned
subscreen. You can view these documents by choosing
Additional data Document data
.
Activities
You can create links to documents by choosing
Additional data Document data
from any of the user department data screens. For more information, see
Assigning Documents to a Material Master Record
.
If you specify a reference material when creating a material master record, the system copies any document data from the reference material. However, for it to display data on a document of the standard document type directly in the material master record, you must first adopt the document. You do this from any of the user department data screens by choosing
Additional data Document data
to access and confirm the
Document data
screen.
If your company does not use SAP’s document management system, you can use the Drawing subscreen to directly enter data on a design drawing.
Additional Information
SAP library documentation CA Document Management