How to change an Industry sector for a Material? Requirements to change.

Ticket 2: How to change an Industry sector for a Material? Requirements to change.

Solution: 

We cannot change the industry sector for the material once its defined.

Resolution: Better to delete the old material and recreate the new material with correct industry sector.

Before deleting the old material- prerequisites are check for open PO’s and Open PR’s and check for the stock in the warehouse, once everything clarified to ‘0’ then its good to delete and create new material.

Reason:

 we cannot change the industry sector because industry sector controls the sequence of screens and fields, so once we define the material with once industry sector then we cannot modify.

Interview Question 1:

 Can we have new Industry sector as per the company?

Answer: Yes, we can have our own industry sector as per our industry.

Example: Electrical industry/Cement Industry/Hydrocarbon etc

Process to define new industry sector:

SPRO- logistics general-Material master-field selection-Define industry sector.

OMS3- T-code

Select the new entries and enter Industry sector, Description and Field reference.

Interview Question 2: 

What are the standard industry sectors in SAP? Tell any 4.

Answer: we have SAP predefined industry sectors, few are:

Mechanical/Chemical/Pharmatechs/Beverages/Food/Construction

If there is any new type of machinery we are involving then we will create a new industry sector, but its very rare condition.