Material Information Cockpit- Functionalities

Here is a rough overview about all application / functions used by Material Information Cockpit solution.

All Material Information Cockpit functionalities are available in the transactions /DBME/KMA_MATC and the user menu /DBME/KMA.

Action buttons

The action button pane serves interaction functions to the user within the Material Information Cockpit.

Action buttons

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Button	Description
	Execute the selection. Alternative press F8 or press ENTER on any selection field.
	Show or hide addition selection screen area / fields.
	Choose existing selection variant
	Save entered selection data as selection variant
	Manage created selection variants (Display, Copy, Edit, Delete, etc.)
	Refresh current selection and data
	Clear all selection field

Action buttons description

Selection Area

The selection area is divided into two areas main selection and additional selection. The main selection area includes the material number and the organization data. The additional selection fields are used to limit the results further.

There are no obligatory selection fields defined, but due to high volume of master data and possible performance issues, it’s recommended to provide at least a material range for selection.

The additional selection fields are by default hidden and can be shown using the action buttons, refer to previous chapter.

Selection fields

The selection logic considers in general the tables MARA, MARC and MVKE.

• If only MARA fields are provided, the selection will get data from MARA and read data from MARC and MVKE there it’s exists for the valid organizational combination.

• If MARC fields are provided, the selection will get combined data from MARA and MARC and read data from MVKE there it’s exists for the valid organizational combination.

• If MVKE fields are provided, the selection will get combined data from MARA and MVKE and read data from MARC there it’s exists for the valid organizational combination.

• If MARC and MVKE fields are provided, the selection will get combined data of all tables for the valid organizational combination.

Additionally, to the MARC and MVKE data the sum of unrestricted stock is fetched from table MARD for the plants.

Result list

The result list contains the selected materials and indicates the material maintenance status.

To quickly identify the missing organizational data (plant/sales view) in the Material Information Cockpit a traffic light system has been implemented in the result list. The traffic light system displays the following:

• Green Light → Plant and sales view are existing

• Yellow → Plant or sales view is missing

• Red → Plant and sales view is missing

Additionally, the missing organizational entry is highlighted with red.

By default, the first material of the list is marked as selected material with his org data combination. To choose a different material or org combination it’s enough to click in the underlined material in the corresponding line.

The result list can be expanded to full screen with the button “Show full” on the ALV toolbar.

Result list

Selected material / org data combination

The screen “Master data” displays which material and org combination were chosen from the result list. If a view does not exist, the plant or sales data will not be shown at this screen and at the details screen as well.

Selected material / org data combination

Navigation buttons

The Material Information Cockpit provides many information about the material. But it could be required to display more information from standard transactions like material documents or stock requirements.

The navigation pane can have up to eleven buttons. A button consists of a text and an icon.

Navigation buttons description