Changing a Material with Reference to a Change Num (SAP Library

Changing a Material with Reference to a Change Number

Changes to a material are stored in a change document rather than being saved in the material master record itself. The valid-from date is stored in the change document header.

Changes to the material master record with reference to a change number are made independently of the function.

Changing a Material Immediately

You can change the data in a material master record immediately. To do this, choose the Material ® Change ® Immediately function (transaction MM02).

For this function, the valid-from date of the change master record cannot be in the future.

The changes you make are then valid with immediate effect (as of today’s date) or as of the date in the past.

Scheduling Material Changes

Changes to materials can be scheduled. To do this, choose the function Material ® Change ® Schedule (Transaction MM12). If you do this, you will schedule the change to take place on a future date.

The valid-from date of the change master record cannot be in the past.
You must activate the scheduled change for the valid-from date of the change master record.

The scheduled changes do not take effect until after the activation on a specific date in the future.

When you activate scheduled changes, all changes to this material are read and transferred to the batch-input interface. A "real" change document is created. When you activate changes, the document number of the new "real" change document is saved to the change documents for the changes being activated, as activation data.
The "real" change document contains the information that it was created by activating changes.

Note

This section describes a change to the design data in material master record PP-SATST01.