Define Basic Materials (SAP Library

Define Basic Materials

In this IMG activity , you can enter the basic materials that are allowed for materials in your system. When you maintain a material master record, any basic material that you specify on the Basic Data screen in the standard R/3 System is checked against the basic materials you enter here.

Note

The basic material specified in the material master does not have a control function.

If the basic material is not listed here, the system responds in one of the following ways (which you can define in Customizing for the Material Master in the activity Define attributes of system messages ):

It issues a warning message or an error message telling you that the basic material does not exist.

In the case of an error message, you must specify one of the basic materials listed here.

It does not issue any message.

In this case, you do not need to specify one of the basic materials listed here.

Recommendation

It is useful to specify the basic materials allowed if you want to refer to them in programs of your own and you need to be certain that, for example, there are no differences in their spelling.