Question { 16916 }

Is it possible to assign a material to more than one
division?

Answer

A product or service is always assigned to just one division. From the point of view of sales and distribution, the use of divisions lets you organize your sales structure around groups of similar products or product lines. This allows the people in a division who process orders and service customers to specialize within a manageable area of expertise.

Question { IBM, 15949 }

Material type means.? Can you tell me a few?

Answer

A grouping together of materials with the same basic attributes such as raw materials, semifinished products, or finished products.

All materials must be assigned to a material type which determines:
•Whether the material is intended for a specific purpose such as a configurable material or process material
•Whether the material number can be assigned internally or externally
•The number range from which the material number is drawn
•Which screens appear and in what sequence
•Which user department data you may enter
•What procurement type the material has; that is, whether it is manufactured in-house or procured externally, or both

Question { 11205 }

Tell me some of the views of material master record?

Answer

Basic Data 1
Basic Data 2
Purchasing
Foreign Trade: Import Data
Purchase Order Text
MRP 1
MRP 2
MRP 3
MRP 4
Forecasting
General Plant Data / Storage 1
General Plant Data / Storage 2
Warehouse Management 1
Warehouse Management 2
Quality Management
Accounting 1
Accounting 2
Costing 1
Costing 2
Plant Stock
Storage Location Stock
WM Execution
WM Packaging
Compliance / Basic Materials

Question { 16032 }

Bill of material means?

Answer

List of all materials required in a process together with the quantities required.

The BOM is part of the master data of production planning and is also used in discrete manufacturing. However, note that the following features are specific to process industries:

In general, the BOM is created and edited directly from within the master recipe for which it is required.

By creating a production version, you can uniquely combine a master recipe with an alternative BOM. The material components of the alternative BOM can then be assigned to the operations or phases of the master recipe and be taken into account in material quantity calculation.

Question { 37994 }

Diff. between inquiry and quotation?

Answer

The inquiry is a request from the customer for you to provide him with a sales quotation.
A quotation presents the customer with a legally binding offer for delivering a product or providing a service within certain fixed conditions.

Question { 13172 }

Incomplete log?

Answer

Incompletion Log ensures that all required fields in a document are populated. Incompletion procedures can be configured to (1) raise no messages, (2) raise a warning message, or (3) raise an error message.
To display the procedures run transaction OVA2 or use the IMG path > Sales & Distribution > Basic Functions > Log of Incomplete Items > Define Incompletion Procedures.