MATERIAL TYPE title: material type (LO-MD) (SAP Library - Glossary)
MATERIAL TYPE category: Logistics Basic Data (LO-MD)
MATERIAL TYPE explained:
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 bothMore terms such as material type in Dictionary M.
- Manual Maternity Protection Period:
- Help The laws and regulations protecting expectant mothers. Example Period before and after the birth of a child during which the expectant or new mother is legally prohibited to work material type definition.
- Manual Myself System (BW-WHM):
- Help System that is connected to itself for data extraction by using the data mart interface. Thus, the user can update data from one InfoProvider to other InfoProviders material type explain.
- Manual Main Authorization Switch:
- Help entries of the AUTSW group in table T77S0 that are connected with HR authorizations. As a rule, each one of these switches enables you to control the use of an authorization object for the material type what is.
- Manual Modeling Environment:
- Help A tool for product modeling, for example SAP Internet Pricing and Configurator - Product Modeling Environment (SAP IPC-PME) or R/3 variant configuration material type meaning.
- Manual Method (BC-CCM):
- Help module, SAP transaction or URL that should be executed by the CCMS monitoring architecture upon the occurrence of certain types of events. The types of method that may be assigned to an MTE are material type abbreviation.
