As per the business requirements can we have new material type? Requirements

8.Question: As per the business requirements can we have new material type? Requirements

Answer: 

Yes, it’s possible to create a new material type and there are many reasons for that.

Let’s take an example, where we are dealing with packaging materials, and sometimes we will receive packaging materials with seals because there are few material seals is mandatory.

For packaging sealed materials, we need a new material type – that name should reflect as packaging sealed.

The material type controls many things to manage business like filed selection with number ranges/User departments /Internal and external procurement/Account determination/Price control- as per the requirements we will adjust above settings.

Example 2: When we are dealing with raw materials, we have many types of raw materials and our company they use to divide with hydrocarbons as separate material type and accounting entries also different because those materials are high value and they want to monitor separately.

8.1 Question: Mention SAP defined material types:

       Answer: ROH/FERT/HALB/VERP/PIPE/HAWA

Important: UNBW- Non valuated materials