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Definition

SAP format, in which material master data is to be distributed.

Use

For data transfer and distribution, you can maintain materials in the same way in dialog, as with maintaining all additional data. However, this is not the case for the following data:

  • Variant configuration and assignment for a configurable material

  • Export licenses and customs tariff preferences

  • Production versions

The pure material data is transferred in an IDoc, and the additional data in an individual IDoc. This has the following reasons:

  • For most additional data there are already IDocs and corresponding distribution and transfer functions available.

  • The additional data must be distributable separately, as there are normally possibilities for individual maintenance, as well as the material master, for this data.

For this you must specify the sequence in which the separate IDocs that belong together are to be posted. Otherwise terminations could occur during the posting (such as when the system tries to create a purchasing info record for a material that does not exist in the database). For this reason you can define the dependencies between objects in Customizing for Distribution (ALE): In this way you can ensure that when the changes for a dependent object are distributed, the changes to lower-level objects are carried out at the same time, so that the two IDocs are created in the correct sequence.

As with the creation of the IDocs on the sender side, the IDocs on the recipient side are only posted after the arrival of all IDocs that belong together is notified in the target system.

Integration

The following IDoc types are relevant for the distribution of material master data:

  • MATMAS03

Pure material master data

  • DOLMAS01

Document assignment

  • ECMREV01

Revision statuses

  • CLFMAS01

Classification

  • MATQM01

QM inspection data

As well as the above data, which can be maintained directly in the material master, you can also distribute the following additional data created with separate transactions, and with separate IDocs:

  • INFREC01

Purchasing info records

  • SRCLST01

Purchasing source list

  • COND_A01

Sales prices, sales price conditions, and conditions from purchasing info records

  • BOMMAT01

BOM structure