Important list of SAP Material master tables including general data, plant-specific data, accounting view, valuation, classification, warehouse management, sales organization, costing, MRP, batches, and material documents.
The Material Master is a central repository of all material data in SAP MM, where it stores all the information to material such as the description of the material, Units of measure, pricing, material type, and so on.
The material master data consists of multiple views such as
- Basic Data
- Sales Org Data
- Purchasing
- Classification
- MRP
- General Plant Data
- Warehouse Management
- Accounting
- Costing
Each material master record is maintained with different views, it enables the integration with other modules. For example, the accounting enables the integration of material with FI module.
SAP Material Master Tables
The material master data is stored in different tables, and each data is used for different requirements in SAP MM. The following are the important list of Material Master Data Tables:
General Material Data Tables
| Table | Description |
| MARA | General Material Data |
| MAKT | Material Description |
| MARV | Material Control Record |
| MARM | Unit of Measure of Material |
Plant-Specific Material Data Tables
| Table | Description |
| MARC | Plant data for materials |
Material Master Classification Tables
| Table | Description |
| KLAH | Class Header Data |
| KSML | Characteristics of a class |
| AUSP | Characteristics values |
Material Master Accounting & Valuation Tables
| Table | Description |
| MBEW | Material Valuation |
| MBEWH | Material Valuation – History |
| MLGN | Material |
Material Warehouse tables
| Table | Description |
| MLGN | Material data for each warehouse number |
Material Sales and Distribution Tables
| Table | Description |
| MVKE | Sales Data for material |
| MLAN | Tax classification for materials |
Material Storage and Inventory Tables
| Table | Description |
| MARD | Storage location data for material |
| MARDH | Material Master Storage Location Segment – History |
| MSKU | Special Stock with customers |
| MSPR | Project Stocks |
| MLGT | Material Data by storage type |
Material Requirement Planning (MRP) Tables
| Tables | Description |
| MDMA | MRP Area for Material |
| MDLG | MRP area storage location customizing |
| MDKP | Header Data for MRP document |
| MDTB | MRP Table |
Material Batches Tables
| Table | Description |
| MCH1 | Batches General Data (If Batch Management Cross-Plant) |
| MCHA | Batch Master Data |
| MCHB | Batch Stocks |
Materials Documents & Transaction Tables
| Table | Description |
| MKPF | Material Document Header |
| MSEG | Material Document Items |
Material Master Tables in SAP S4 Hana
The following are the new material master tables that are available in SAP S4HANA.
| Table | Description |
| ACDOCA | Universal Journal Entry Table |
| MATDOC | Material Documents |
| CDHDR | Change document header |
| CDPOS | Change document items |