Customer-Specific Fields in ALE (SAP Library - Material Master (LO-MD-MM))

Customer-Specific Fields in ALE

Use

In Customizing for the Material Master, you can configure the material master to include table fields of your own. You do this in the section Configuring the Material Master. The data contained in the customer-specific fields can also be distributed by Application Link Enabling (ALE).

Prerequisites

If you want to use ALE to distribute customer-specific data, you must do the following:

Activate SAP Enhancement MGV00001.

For more information, see the SAP library documentation BC Changing the SAP Standard.

Define the necessary source code for the following user exits contained in SAP Enhancement MGV00001:

EXIT_SAPLMV01_002

EXIT_SAPLMV03_002

For more information, see the documentation for SAP Enhancement MGV00001 and for the user exits.

Create a new IDoc segment.

For more information, see the SAP library documentation BC IDoc Interface/Electronic Data Interchange Defining New IDoc Types.

Features

When material master data is distributed by ALE, the customer-specific data is read in outbound processing and transferred to the customer-specific IDoc segment via user exit EXIT_SAPLMV01_002. In inbound processing, the customer-specific data is taken from the corresponding IDoc segment and posted in the target system via user exit EXIT_SAPLMV02_002.