Creating a Material

You can use the Create Material service to create a change request for material creation. This change request goes through the predetermined workflow process and when complete results in the creation of a new material in the active area.

Prerequisites

You must have maintained a change request type for material creation and have set up your workflow for this change request type.

Procedure

Choose material ID and change request type
In the Material field enter a material ID or leave it blank and the system will create a temporary ID that is changed to the standard ID when the change request is approved. In the Change Request Type field enter the change request type for creating a material. Choose the Continue button to proceed.

If required, you can enter a plant assignment with or without a storage location. You can also enter a distribution chain and warehouse assignment for the material. To create a plant assignment, enter a plant name in the Plant field and enter a storage location if required.

To create a distribution chain assignment, enter a sales organization and distribution channel in the corresponding fields. To create a warehouse assignment, enter the warehouse number and storage type.

Note
You can also select an existing material to use as a template to create your new material. You can select this template material using the Material (Template) field. In this case, the material data is copied to the new material, excluding organizational data.

If you want to copy organizational data to your new material then you need to specify a template plant and distribution chains and warehouse assignments. You can only copy one plant and distribution chain or warehouse assignment each time you launch the New Material screen. To copy multiple plants and distribution chains and warehouse assignments, re-launch the New Material screen.

Copying multiple dependent organizational units is only possible when using the initial Create Material screen where you specify your source and target organizational units. On the material change request UI, when you copy a selected organizational unit you do not automatically copy its dependent organizational units.

You can control the fields that are copied by the copy function. To do this enter transaction OMSR, choose the Position on Field Name button, then enter the field (for example, MARA-MEINS) whose content you want to include or exclude from copying. Double-click on the field from the list and on the screen that opens select or deselect the Propose Field Content checkbox. Save your changes and from now on the content from that field will be copied or not copied according to your new setting.

Flex entities and custom entities (which are not posted with function module MATERIAL_MAINTAIN_DARK) are copied completely. All other entities which have only material and additional keys, but no data, are not created when copying from active area to prevent a large maintenance status. They are copied when using an inactive material as a template.

You also have the option to specify a change request ID and a template material. The inactive data from the specified change request is then used as a template.

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Enter change request details
In the General tab, enter a description for your change request in the Description field. You can enter details for your change request such as priority, due date, and reason. You can also add comments and attach relevant files directly or by link if you wish.
Enter details for new material
In the Basic Data, Design Data, Descriptions, Basic Text, Dimensions, GTIN/EAN, Classification, and Internal Comment sections enter the data for your new material.

Note
If you navigate to the Classification section before choosing a material type the system derives a default class from the default material type. If you have selected a material type, the system derives the default class from the selected material type. Later changes to the material type will not automatically update the class assignments.

You need to enter a Material Type and Industry Sector in order to see all mandatory fields.

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Enter plant, valuation, distribution, and warehouse data
Enter plant, valuation, costing, distribution chain, and warehouse information in the appropriate sections. You can change the selected plant in the Plants section. You can change the selected distribution chain in the Distribution Chain section.

You can also copy one of the plants, storage locations, distribution chains, or warehouse assignments in these sections to create multiple new plants, storage locations, distribution chains or warehouse assignments for this material.

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You can use these screens to add or remove links to DMS documents. It is also possible to create new DMS documents. New documents are stored in the active area. DMS documents are not placed under governance.

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Submit your change request
When you have confirmed your data entry click the Submit button to create the change request.

Result

The new change request for material creation is created and sent for processing according to the rule-based workflow you have assigned to the create material process. Usually, this means that it passes to a Master Data Steward who reviews the changes. During this time the new material is stored in the master data governance staging area and does not appear in the active area. Once the Master Data Steward has approved the change request and technical validation has taken place, the new material is written to the active area.