Reply from PMassey48 on Apr 4 at 5:51 AM Pramod
The classifications and characteristics are set at the client level. The assignment of characteristics to materials is done at the material master level, therefore and material open in more than one company or plant must always have the same characteristics in all plants.
You can get round this by creating your own characteristics that are plant specific. For instance, if you have plants "A", "B", and "C" you can create special characteristics "ZA", "ZB", "ZC" in that single material. (or, "ZxxxA", etc..). Whilst this is possible, it means that all of these characteristics are visible to all plants, and probably that you will need to have someone at the plant level to modify their particular characteristics.
The trouble with classes and characteristics is that whilst they are easy to create en mass, they are a pain to manage and users very rarely manage them correctly. Therefore you have to think about the quality of such data a few years down the line. Also, you should consider your reporting structures as characteristics are not normally passed to standard reporting structures - I am afraid that I cannot elaborate more here without fully understanding your organization structure and how it is reflected in the client.
A final note on characteristics is that they should be used only for physical characteristics as a best practice. In this way you can control the product file and avoid duplicate products, although I have used a characteristic for the drawing number as a means of identifying different versions of the same product (a common problem of product management is when is a product version really a continuation of the same product commercially as opposed to being a different commercial product, when at the plant level for quality control purposes all versions must be identified).
As an alternative idea, if you are simply trying to represent a different brand for just one plant, why are you trying to do this within basic SAP. I would have thought that it would be easier to do this within the reporting system you are using, or maybe within Excel or similar using look-ups. Again, as I do not know your systems and structures I cannot expand on this, but it may lead to a simpler solution.
PMA
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From: pramod balakrishnan
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:17 AM
Subject: Material Group at Plant Level
PMA,
Any chance at plant or company code level. Can we do anything with classification here?
Pramod Balakrishnan, BSP-SCM/1432
SAP Inventrory Analyst |
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