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Material creation with product hierarchy……..
Dear SAP Folks,
In this blog post, I will share how to map product grouping ( Brand-Category- Sub category level wise) in material master
Introduction:
A product hierarchy is used in the SD area for analysis and price determination.The Prod.hierarchy field is an alphanumeric character string that groups together materials by combining different characteristics. In a standard SAP system, the product hierarchy can have up to three levels. Levels 1 and 2 have five characters each, and level 3 has eight. The product hierarchy is defined using Transaction V/76.
Refer below link also one of our friends shared product hierarchy blogs it also helpful……
https://blogs.sap.com/2017/08/29/product-master-hierarchy/
https://blogs.sap.com/2019/11/19/introduction-to-product-hierarchy-in-sap-s-4hana-cloud/
Now follow the same,
IMG → Logistics – General → Material Master → Setting for Key
Fields → Data Relevant to Sales and Distribution → Define
Product Hierarchies
Based on the requirement create Product hierarchy strcture
Structure:
XXXXX (Hierarchy code) – Brand (Level 1)
YYYYY (Hierarchy code) – Category (Level 2)
ZZZZZ (Hierarchy code) – Subcategory (Level 3)
Now create Level 1 – Its brand here enter hierarchy code and description
1st Level- Hierarchy code length is 5 digit alpha neumaric.
XXXXX – Brand
Now create Level 2 – Its Category here enter hierarchy code and description
2nd Level- Hierarchy code length is 5 digit alpha neumaric.
YYYYY – Category
Now create Level 3 – Its Sub-Category here enter hierarchy code and description
3rd Level Hierarchy code length is 8 digit alpha neumaric.
ZZZZZ – Sub-Category
We created product hierarchy master.
Now specify product hierarchies code to Material Master Data
If you want 1st level then choose only one level
If you want 2nd level means then click next level……
If you want 2nd level then choose
If you want 3nd level means then click next level……
Here select level 3 Sub – Category
Now see product hierarchy field upto three levels ( Brand – Category – Sub Category )
Conclusion:
I hope this is useful for all of our community members
I believe, It will be helpful and will provide sufficient information to the readers
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Thanks & Regards
Venkatakrishnan Subramani
Very Useful blog
Hi venkata krishnan,
Very useful post.
Is there any way to automate this? For example,if new product is coming up and it needs to fit in the Hierarchy levels we created based on some pre defined logic? Or it should be done manually all the time? Please reply on this.