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Author's profile photo Ramakrishnaiah M

Additional Material Filed attributes transfer from ECC to GTS

Recently I have come across a requirement that one of my client wants to transfer Product hierarchy, External Material group and EAN number from R/3 material master record to GTS product master to fulfill some of their reporting and output printing needs.

On top of this they also want to stop transferring some of their non salable products based on their external material group (For ex if Ext material group is 003 and it is not for sale then if some one try to transfer into GTS, system should stop transferring.

I know this is definitely a common requirement in any company and I am sure a few other GTS experts have already provided lot of information around this corner but I am still writing  this blog assuming it may help the new comers.

In above case , unfortunately Standard SAP GTS Material master transfer functionality allows to get only basic material information  like Mat number , description, UOM and weights etc….

Here is the step by step approach to make this happen.


GTS Configuration :

Menu: SPRO–>IMG–>GTS–>General Settings–>Customs Products

  1. Define Product Characteristics from the Feeder System

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  1. Assign Field Attributes to the Product Characteristics from the Feeder Sys.

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    3. Define Attributes of Product Characteristics with Length 20 (Based on your Char you can select the suitable node)

        Since we wanted to filter material transfer from ECC to GTS based on external material group value in material master I have made below       

        configuration, basically if the ext material group value is  either 001 or 002 then only product will be transferred to GTS ,  other than these two values   

        (Ex: 003) users will not be able to transfer to GTS/    

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ECC/R/3 Activities :

To achieve the above requirement we need to activate a user exit and then need to write a simple ABAP code

  1. Go to CMOD transaction and create a project and assign the enhancement SLLLEG04

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    2. Above enhancement will give you access to multiple function exits when you click components, please use this  EXIT_SAPLSLL_LEG_PRR3_004

    3. You can also access above exit from SE37 transaction like below

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  1. Double click on the above highlighted Include and it will take you to the programming editor.

    5. You need to incorporate below coding, that is  all…..

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Execution/Test 1:

     Create/find a material master with external group  001 and transfer to GTS, this will be transferred successfully and you can also find this data (Product      Hierarchy, EAN and external material group in GTS product master General Basic data tab  under additional data push button.         

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Execution/Test 2 :

Create/Find a product with External material group other than 001 or 002 …may be 003 for example and transfer that material to GTS and you can see that SAP will not transfer that product master.

Hope this is helpful, please post your comments.

Thanks

RK

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Excellent ,Its very useful Information .

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      Former Member

      Excellent very useful information

      Author's profile photo Praveen Kumar Dodda
      Praveen Kumar Dodda

      Hi RK,

      This is Nice Document. Definitely helpful to the ppl in projects.

      Excellent work.

      Best Regards,

      Praveen D

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      Former Member

      Hi Praveen,

      Yes right its very useful in projects.

      Regards

      Arun

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      Former Member

      Hi RK,

      Thank you for sharing very helpful information.

      Author's profile photo venu gopal
      venu gopal

      Hi RK

      Nice document and nice explanation.

      Author's profile photo avi sai
      avi sai

      Thanks for the document, it is very useful.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      This is  very helpful.Thanks

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      Former Member

      Useful document for all budding consultants, Thanks for the Information

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      nice document RK. It is very useful. Thanks for sharing

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      Former Member

      Nice Document Ramakrishnaiah sir, Please share these kind of Enhancement if you done please share that helps a lot.

      Any how good job..................... ℹ 🙂

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      Former Member

      Hello Krishna

      Thanks for sharing such a useful content , it is really very helpful.

      Regards

      Jitender

      Author's profile photo Dhanesh M
      Dhanesh M

      Hi  Rama,

      I am working on a similar POC and I configured the additional attributes as well as the required BADI configuration in the feeder system, However, I am not able to find the 'Additional Characteristics' tab in the GTS product master. It is bit strange, coz in the selection screen for the Manage Products , we can see the 'Additional Data' section and I can see the values I configured for the input help, but once the actual product master details are displayed, the 'Additional Characteristics' tab is missing. Appreciate if you have any clue for this ??

      Thanks,

      Dhan