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....

Changing a BOM in SAP is easily achievable in SAP transaction CS02 Change material BOM. Components can be added or removed using that tcode. A material Bill of Material in SAP can be displayed using tcode CS03 Display material BOM....

Creating a material in SAP can have two different definitions: either create a new material from scratch with transaction MM01, or extend an existing material to the required Material Master views with transaction MM02, such as Plant views to make the material available in another location or create a SAP purchase order, or Sales and Distribution views to be able to sell the product to other customers using the SAP system....

After having performed operations of the procurement lifecycle management such as create several purchase requisition, sent request for quotation to different vendors, received their SAP quotation and registered them in the system, it is possible to compare the SAP quotation prices received in the transaction ME49 compare prices, to select the best supplier....

See below a list of probable common SAP interview questions and their answers. Do not hesitate to look up in an actual working SAP system how these answers are really put at use before going on an interview....