Either while wanting to learn SAP by yourself or practice to get an SAP certification or try out some tricks on a SAP system without messing up work data, there are plenty of ways in which having a practice SAP MM interface can be useful....

While using a material number, for example during the creation of a request for quotation as part of the procurement lifecycle management, it might happen that the error message M3305, the material does not exist or is not activated, is thrown by the SAP system....

SAP’s Material Master Classification view (Fig 1) is very particular. It does not contain direct values from one or more tables, but it have values from several tables linked together. Even if the general links are quickly explained online[1], it may be useful to learn how to navigate in these tables, this in order to identify particuliar values, and find out easily these values for a group of materials. ...

The MRP Controller in SAP, Material Requirements Planning Controller, is a mandatory field in Material Master. It represents the person, or group, that will be responsible of controlling the material workflow scheduling. ...

SAP MPOP structure is not a real table, and is not directly accessible, for example using SE16N (Fig 1). Therefore, if we want to extract Material Master’s MPOP data for a given set of materials, it must be done by accessing several tables, MAPR (Fig 2) and PROP (Fig 3), which contains information from the Material Master’s Forecasting view (Fig 4). ...

When facing the SAP error M3820 Tables TCURM and T001W inconsistent; contact your systems administrator, most likely during material creation in MM01, the issue is most likely that the plant hasn't been assigned to the company code. ...

Want to know which views are open in Material Master MM03 transaction for a material, and for which organization(s) : plant / storage location / warehouse number / storage type / sales organization / distribution channel / valuation area / valuation type ? ...

It is often useful – but dangerous – to update one or more values of several materials at the same time. This manipulation is pretty easy to perform in SAP, maybe too much, use these information carefully, and always double check that the system is the right one, and that the data is accurate....

In order to create a new storage location in SAP, also called a SAP SLOC, the starting point is the customization transaction SPRO, under Enterprise Structure > Definition > Materials Management > Maintain storage location...

There are two ways to create a new plant in SAP S4 HANA, see below our sap plant configuration guide. The first one is to go directly in the transaction OX10 from the SAP S4 HANA easy access home screen....