About customer-material info record

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I can't understand why in the customer-material info record the system only allows one customer's material corresponding to only one of ours,but normally,many our material numbers correspond to one of customer's,so we have to add the count numbers behind the customer's material number,anyone could tell me about this?

thanks a lot.

[rmazzali · Accepted solution]

one of the main aims of the customer-material inforecord is to automate order entry by EDI/Idocs processes, so you must have a clear one-to-one definition of the material ordered by the customer to place the order.

Regards

Roberto Mazzali

[Former Member]

Hi

I would suppose, just as a material inside the R/3 is unique, same way a 1-to-1 parity is maintained for the customer-material info too. One can (maybe) see this as a limitation of the product in that case. However if many of your materials do corrospond to the customer's material, the question then is, is it really necessary to maintain customer-material info for those materials , doesn't that beat the whole purpose ?

anyone else ?

Thx.

Shovon

[Former Member]

Hi,

This Master is basically used for mapping the Customers material # (with which he is placing order) to the Material # in our company.

If various Customers are having various Material codes for the same Material in our company, then we can maintain a Seperate record for each Customer.

Eg: Material M1 = Customer material# "Reynolds Pen" for Cust A.

Material M1 = Customer material# "Reynolds " for Cust B. and so on....

Material M1 = Customer material# "PEN" for Cust C.

So whenever the Customer places order for a material using his OWN MATERIAL CODES, the system should pick up the corresponding Material Code in the Company....

Hope this helps,

Reward if helpful.

Regards,

Syam