In the Material Master menu, choose one of the following options:

– If you want the data to be available immediately, choose  Material Create (general) Immediately .

– If you want to schedule the material master record, choose  Material Create (general) Schedule .

The initial screen for creating a material master record appears.

Enter a material number.

This number is essential, even if only internal number assignment is allowed at your company, because you are extending an existing material master record by adding data to it. If you do not enter a number, you will create a new material master record.

You do not need to enter an industry sector or a material type since the system will copy them from the existing material master record.

If you are scheduling the material master record, enter the following data:

– Key date from which the material master record is to be valid

– Change number if you want to use engineering change management

If you have entered a key date, the system checks that it does not precede the valid-from date of the change number. If you have not entered a key date, the system uses the valid-from date of the change number. In both cases, the date must be in the future.

Choose Enter .

If you have entered an industry sector and/or material type on the initial screen that differ from those already entered by another user department, the system replaces them with the values from the existing material master record, and issues a warning that you confirm with Enter .

If you have not entered any values, you confirm the message that appears with Enter .

The Select View(s) dialog box appears.

Select the views, that is, the user departments, whose data you want to add to the material master record and choose Enter .

The Organizational Levels dialog box appears.

Specify the organizational levels as required and, if appropriate, enter a profile.

Choose Enter .

The data screen for the first user department appears and the system issues a message telling you that you are extending the material master record.

The data that has already been entered and that is valid for all user departments is displayed. This includes, for example, the material description and the base unit of measure. You cannot change this data. The fields are ready for input only if entries have not already been made in them by other user departments.

Enter your data as required and save it.