Material Master 

Use

AFS has added several views to the material master for storing AFS-specific data. You set a material as an AFS material by choosing any of the AFS views. You may not subsequently choose an AFS view in order to add it to a standard material. Once a material has been used you can no longer remove its AFS status if you have created it as such.

The new views that have been added are AFS Foreign Trade view  and AFS Quality Management (QM) view. You can assign commodity codes at the SKU level from the AFS Foreign Trade view on the material master  and can use the AFS QM view to control inspection lot creation at SKU level.

The AFS Basic Data view has also been enhanced for the Retail data. You can assign the merchandise category to the AFS material, which is used while creating articles in Retail by doing the AFS material transfer to Retail.

Features

In addition to the additional views, AFS has also added direct input capabilities and an EAN/UPC number generation program specifically for AFS materials.

You can also control AFS warning messages by industry to warn the user that they are creating either a standard material or an AFS material in a certain industry. This is useful if you want to only create AFS materials in one industry and only standard materials in another. Refer to Customizing for more information about setting up the AFS warning messages.

Converting Standard Materials to AFS Materials

With this function you can convert an AFS material to a standard material and vice versa, as long as the material has not been used in any documents, nor has any basic data been maintained for this material, such as a BOM or routing. You can convert materials to AFS or standard at material level or you can set AFS MRP at plant level and run the program in simulation mode or update mode.