Functional Differences Between the Industry / Reta (Release notes 40A)

Functional Differences Between the Industry / Retail Material Master

Description

As of Release 4.0A, the material master for retail (together with all other retail functions) has been included in the standard SAP R/3 System. However, this does not mean that industry material master maintenance and retail material master maintenance will be fused. There will continue to be the following separate functional areas:

Function	Industry	Retail
Online maintenance	MM01/02/03	MM41/42/43
Display change documents	MM04	MM44
Data transfer/ ALE	Separate functions
Stock overview	MMBE	RWBE

How Does the Retail Material Master Differ from the Industry Material Master?

The retail material master has been extended to take account of the following special requirements in retail:

The data for some objects (such as purchasing info record and classification) has been integrated directly in the maintenance screens.

Several areas of validity (organizational levels such as plants and distribution chains), even several materials in the case of a generic material can be processed online in a single maintenance transaction.

Unlike the industry material master, in which you can process only one material number, one plant, and so on at a time, the data from higher levels in the retail material master is transferred to the subordinate levels, provided you have not maintained the subordinate levels differently.

Example

The data for a generic material is transferred to the variants. In addition, the data for reference plants is transferred to normal plants.

The retail material master includes retail-specific functions such as assortment listing and sales pricing.

Conversely, some of the data and functions in the industry material master are not supported in the retail material master in Release 4.0A. These functions are as follows:

Administrative data / extendable materials

Authorization check for data at client level

Sales texts/purchase order texts for the material

Note

Purchase order texts for the purchasing info record are possible.

Special create functions for each material type

Long-term planning

Joint production

Follow-up material

Reprocessing records (Forecasting)

Production versions (MKAL)

QM inspection data (QMAT)

Export licenses (MAEX)

Customs tariff preferences (MAPE)

Material ledger

LIFO valuation

Valuation at company code level

Sales price conditions for condition type PR00

Production resources/tools (MFHM)

Warehouse management system data for several warehouse numbers or storage types

Maintenance of specific valuation type data

Several storage locations

Configurable materials and configuration value assignment

Classification except for class type 026 (retail)

Scheduling of changes

Revision level

Materials that you create with the retail material master can be displayed with the industry material master, but not changed. Conversely, materials that you create with the industry material master cannot be processed in the retail material master.