Material Master mandatory profit center not allowing non-stock material creation

[bkilboy]

I changed Profit Center to mandatory on a Material Master by going to OMS9, field group 48, and set MM01 and MM02 to mandatory. This worked great so I thought, but I found now if I try to create a Non-Stock material NLAG, it gives an error that the Profit Center is mandatory, but I can't select the Storage Location 2 tab to actually enter it because it's non-stock so I'm stuck. So is there a way to set this differently? I thought instead of selecting MM01 and MM02, to choose the other material type ones instead like HAWA and ERSA but with those ones selected only, it didn't make it mandatory.

[BalaAP · Accepted solution]

Hi,

My suggestion:

1) In OMS9, set "Opt.Entry" for transactions 'MM01' & 'MM02' for your required field group 48. This is having lowest priority.

2) For industry sector 'M' (or your other industry sectors), set as "optional" for FG 48 (in same tcode).

3) Set "Reqd Entry" for all the material types (field reference for material type which was assigned - find it using tcode OMS2). For NLAG and other types, whichever not relevant for stock or financial relevancy, set "Opt.Entry" for this FG 48.

Because, when you make "Reqd.Entry" for "MM01" or industry type "M", this will have higher priority over "Opt.Entry" set for Mat.type NLAG. When the link rule is applied, "Reqd.Entry" will be set even though you set "opt.entry" for individual mat.types.

regards,

Bala

[bkilboy]

I found out what I had wrong. ERSA wasn't in the list, so I added it, but found out that isn't the correct way to do it. ERSA actually has a field reference of ROH, so when I checked that one instead and unchecked MM01 and MM02, then it all worked as expected!