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Function documentationProduct Type Identification for Inbound Products

 

You can import different source objects from external systems and add them to the SAP SCM product database. In some cases, though, multiple source objects could have the same ID number but be considered different products: product 4711, merchandise category 4711 and reference module 4711, and so on. SAP SCM needs to know what distinguishes these various objects so that it can filter them properly in the user interface: for example, you want the F4 help to show a list of all products in merchandise category 4711 rather than the single product 4711, or you want to see only the reference modules. To ensure this, each incoming product has a product type based on the source object in the external system.

Integration

The Product Type fields in the MATMAP and MATKEY tables can contain the following entries:

  • Blank = Real product

  • 1 = Merchandise category

  • 2 = Merchandise category hierarchy node

  • 3 = Regular product hierarchy node

  • 4 = Reference module

Using BAdI APO_BAPI_BUS10001 (method CHANGE_SAVEMULTIPLE2), you maintain the LT_PRODUCT_MAPPING parameter to map the external product identifiers to these product types in SAP SCM.

BAPIs responsible for inbound processing use the PRODUCT_TYPE parameter to retrieve the external product identifiers.