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The information contained in this info object is relevant to the material master for industry and to the article master for retail. Retail customers are requested to substitute article for material , and site for plant .
A purchase order text is a text describing the material in more detail. This text is subsequently copied to purchasing documents (such as purchase requisitions or purchase orders) automatically, where you can change it if necessary. It is valid for all organizational levels, not for a specific plant. You can enter a purchase order text in the material master record in as many languages as you like, though only one text is allowed per language.
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This data screen does not support batch input. If you want to transfer data using a batch input program of your own, define your own screen sequence in Customizing for the Material Master in Define Structure of Data Screens for Each Screen Sequence and replace subscreen 2321 by 2322.
Apart from the Purchase Order Text screen, a Purchase order texts subscreen has been created which you can include on a data screen in the material master. This subscreen indicates the number of languages in which the purchase order text has been created and contains a pushbutton to access maintenance of the text. This subscreen remain hidden until you assign it to a data screen. You do this in Customizing for the Material Master in Define Structure of Data Screens for Each Screen Sequence . The subscreen has the number SAPLMGD1 2323 for industry and SAPLMGD2 2323 for retail.
Maintaining Purchase Order Texts
This step depends on whether your system is an industry system or a retail system:
Industry
Access the material master record in Create or Change mode, and access the Purchase Order Text view.
Retail
Access the article master record in Create or Change mode, access the user department you require, and choose
Please follow steps 2 and 3 in Basic Data Texts, Inspection Texts, Internal Comments .