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Define Industry Sectors and Industry-Sector-Specific Field Selection

In this step, you check the industry sectors and, if necessary, create new ones. You use the industry sector to determine which fields require an entry when maintaining material master data and which fields do not (an entry being optional in this case).

Standard Settings

The standard SAP R/3 System comes, for example, with the following industry sectors:

You can change the name of the industry sector (plant engineering and construction, and so on) and, if necessary, the field input control too (via the field reference).

Actions

1. Check the existing industry sectors.
2. If necessary, change the texts.
3. If necessary, change the field input control via the field reference.
4. Then use the field reference to control field selection.

Note

You must first create new field references in the step Maintain data screen field selection .

Additional Information

Conventions for field selection control

Priority Function Character
1. Hide -
2. Display *
3. Required field +
4. Optional field .

Possible field control combinations

The table below shows the possible entries for field selection. The points of intersection show the results of the field selection combinations.

Hide Display Required field Optional field
Hide - - - -
Display - * * *
Required field - * + +
Optional field - * + .