Correspondence between Purchasing Group and Material Group (at Materials Master Data level)

[former_member749736]

Hi,

Is there a way to automatically fill the Purchasing Group field on mm01 when selecting a certain Material Group for that material?

The idea is that each purchasing group corresponds to a "PR owner" (responsible for the PR validation in a workflow to be created). And that owner is assigned based on the material group. But the goal is to keep that information in the materials' master data (instead of doing it when the PR is beign created).

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[DominikTylczyn]

Hello sara_

In addition to pataselano proposal which is perfectly correct, I'd suggest to implement a purchasing group vs material group validation in user exit MGA00001, EXIT_SAPLMGMU_001. That would make sure that a user creating a material doesn't change default values set by BADI_MATERIAL_REF.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[pataselano]

For make default value of purchasing group depend on material group in material master, you can use BADI_MATERIAL_REF.

Or, you can using SAP Screen Personas.

[BijayKumarBarik]

How many material groups and purchasing groups you have in your system?

As per your requirement you can design a custom table and keep specific material groups(not all) with purchasing groups in it. Go for development as suggested above and pick purchasing group for material based on material group entered in material master creation and if No value in custom table- system should behave geberically.

[former_member650260]

You could use BADI ME_PROCESS_PO_CUST for an example see https://blogs.sap.com/2013/06/11/po-item-modification-using-badi-meprocesspocust/

[DominikTylczyn]

BADI ME_PROCESS_PO_CUST works in purchase orders. The question is about material master data maintenance.