Change of valuation category - What is the best approach?

[cloud_delict]

I understand valuation category of materials for which orders/batches exists cannot be changed until the orders and batches are archived and deleted.

I have around 20000 materials in plant 1001. These materials are also present in multiple plants. The requirement is to have "Batch SPLIT valuation" in only plant 1001. The rest of the plants don't need any change. What is the best approach to achieve this?

1. Create new materials for all 20000 materials and extend it to all plants (and create new master data for BOMs, Routings as well)?

OR

2. Create a new plant (Let's say Plant 1002) and extend the existing materials to this new plant and change valuation category to "X" (Batch Split Valuation)?

[Prasoon]

Hi,

I would suggest to check the below notes, which provides more insights:

1878966 - Error msg. M3 194 by changing valuation category in transaction MM02 

155874 - Change valuation category in material master 

However, its practically very difficult to follow the process explained when its a running system and there are lot of transactional data. 

For both the options you have mentioned, the best option need to be selected considering the below:

• Number of open documents (like PR/PO/Prod Order etc) for the materials
• Number of dependent master data (like BOM, Routing, maint BOM, serial number etc)
• Stock availability
• MRP, Production schedules
• Dependency with other modules (like PP/QM/PM/PS etc)
• Cost for the change (plant/material)

Regards,

[kunal25kolhe]

Hi ,

Kindly find below link for the best approach:

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-q-a/change-valuation-category-of-a-materia...