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Dec 14, 2011 at 09:15 AM

Material type creation?

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hi all,

My client has basically four material types for their materials.

raw materials, chemicals, spare parts and finished goods.

But they want to create the material number with ten digit, with set of digits have significance.

ex : 1001001999

the first two digits indicates material category

next two digits indicates material sub category

next three digits indicates material sub sub category

the last three digits are running numbers.

as per my knowledge, to achieve this more material types need to be created.

as estimation it can be some 200 material types.

But i never saw configuring these many materil types.

Is it a good practice? Is there any alternative solution?

If no, is there any impact on the system with these many material types?

please help.

Note :I explained them,this can be solved using material groups, so that no need to create these many material types.

But still they insist this format, so that they can able to identify it from stock code it self.

Thanks,

aravind