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Today, I will talk to you about the example analysis of changing the material group field in the SAP MM purchase application to Optional. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following content for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

Change the material group field in the SAP MM purchase requisition to Optional?

As we all know, in the standard SAP system, in the ME51N create purchase requisition interface, the item group field is a required field. For the purchase application with the material number, the material group information is brought from the material master data without input by the business staff; for the purchase application without the material number, the material group field is a required input field.

Here's the problem: customers of Project D don't want to manually select a material group in the purchase requisition interface without a material number. Because its headquarters in Germany has defined nearly 600 material groups for business staff to use, in the face of so many material groups, business staff think that it is too troublesome to manually select a suitable material group.

In the face of customers who are afraid of trouble, I first explained to them the role of the material group. In D project, it is mainly used for reporting. They say they don't need to report according to the material group. Just because I say I don't need it now doesn't mean it won't be needed in the future. If I change this field to an optional field, resulting in empty material groups in many PR, if the business suddenly wants to produce a report according to the material group a few years later, then so many historical data with empty material groups cannot be accurately displayed in the report. The business still insists that I adjust the configuration to make the field optional, so that it will be much easier for them to create purchase requisitions.

In the face of such wayward customers, the author has no choice but to compromise. So the first time to modify the purchase application documents screen format, but found that the standard SAP system settings, whether it is NBB field selection group or ME51N field selection group, material group field is already Optional!

In the field selection group NBB

In the field selection group ME51N

However, in the interface of ME51N to create purchase requisition with non-material number, material group is indeed a required field.

Thus it can be seen that the setting of the item group field in the screen format does not work.

Is it possible that SAP determines that this field is a required field through Hardcode, regardless of the configuration of the screen format?

Does the configuration of the item group field in the purchase requisition screen format really not work?

The author is very curious, try to change the material group field in the relevant field selection group to Display, and see how it works.

After the configuration is changed, go to the front desk ME51N to create a purchase request without item number, and the item group field becomes DISPLAY, as shown below:

After entering the data, save the previous check, the system is no longer required to input material group.

Saved successfully, no problem. It seems that this demand of D project customers can only be met in this way!

Therefore, the configuration of the item group field in the purchase requisition screen format still works. It just can not achieve the dual goal that the field can be modified and is not a required field.

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