Material: Component in SAP

Material is an article provided by SAP AG. This SAP MM guide is intended for SAP System Administrators, Materials Management (MM) developer and SAP technology Consultants.
This SAP MM guide explains you the component "material" and its use to plan and monitor the material requirements and costs in project to flow of materials and scheduling. This article helps you to know how material link with project to sales, Material management (MM) and SAP PP.
Following are the few topics covered in this SAP MM guide.
  • Procurement via Materials Requirements Planning
  • Direct Procurement
  • Item Category
  • Procurement Settings
  • Managing Stocks of Material Components
  • Material Assignment to Networks
  • Assigning Materials to a Network Manually
  • Calling up the Component Overview
  • The Component Detail Screen
  • Copying Component Data
  • Requirements Date Determination
  • Aligning Activity Duration with Material Lead Time
  • Exploding the Bill of Material
  • Advance Procurement
  • Assembly item
  • Activating Requirements
  • Activating all Requirements in a Hierarchy
  • MRP Element Maintenance
  • Copying PS texts into Purchase Requisitions
  • Material Availability Check
  • Checking Material Availability
  • Availability Check Log
  • Missing Parts List and Missing Parts Overview
  • Executing Collective Availability Checks
  • Resetting Availability Checking
  • Material Management in the Project Builder
  • Material Management in the Project Planning Board
  • Material Assignment to Standard Networks
  • Assigning Material Components to Standard Networks
  • Creating Standard BOMs to Assign Material to Standard Networks
  • Editing Material Assignments in Standard Networks
  • Configurable Material
  • Project Stock
  • Managing Stocks of Material Components
  • Valuated Project Stock
  • Non-valuated project stock
  • Grouping for Individual Project Planning
  • Grouping WBS element
  • Bill of Material Transfer
  • Assigning BOM Items using Bill of Materials Transfer
  • BOM Transfer in the Order Browser
  • The Effects of Changes in BOMs and BOM Transfer
  • Material Requirements Planning in BOM Transfer
  • Setting Priorities for Inventory Management
  • Defining Assembly Items for BOM Transfer
  • Assigning Material Components to Other WBS Elements
  • BOM Transfer: Example
  • Delivery from Projects
  • Delivery Information
  • General Data
  • Quantity Calculation
  • Creating a Delivery from a Project
  • Displaying Deliveries
  • Monitoring Dates
  • Creating Groups
  • Assigning Components to a Group
  • Assigning Events to a Group
  • Calling up the Dates Overview
  • Referencing Dates Contained in Other Objects
  • Scheduling in Monitoring Dates
  • Functions in the Dates Overview
  • Assembly Processing in the Project System
  • Material Requirements in Assembly Processing
  • Handling Costs in Assembly Processing
  • Settings for Assembly Processing
  • Working with Assembly Processing
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