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When materials are transferred to the SCM system via the Core Interface (CIF), they are created there as products. The following provides you with information on the integration of the product master data.

Integration

To enable the planning of a product, the following master data is transferred from the ERP system:

  • Basic data

    This is location-independent master data.

  • Identification

    A product is identified via the European Article Number (EAN) and the ERP material number. The latter is called the external product number in the SCM system.

  • Unit conversion

  • Classification

    This master data from the ERP system involves data for characteristic determination.

Integration of the External Material Group

The external material group is transferred as an attribute to the SCM system together with the material. If you set the External Material Group indicator in Customizing for the product master under   Product Groups   Define Product Group Types,  you specify that the external material group is to be mapped to the SCM system as a product group of this product group type. You can set this indicator for one product group type only.

Constraints

The planner in SAP APO does not correspond to the MRP controller in SAP ERP and is not transferred to SAP APO. If it is required to match the MRP controller to the SAP APO planner, it must be considered that the field planner in SAP APO has three characters and is independent of a location (in contrast to SAP ERP).