Field Selection - Material Master

Assign Fields to Field Selection Group - (OMSR)

Define whether a field is hidden or displayed, or whether an entry is mandatory or optional in material master maintenance by assigning the field to a field selection group in OMSR. You May assign a field to one field selection group only.

Each field selection group has a number between 1 and 240.

The values of the field selection groups have been preassigned as follows:

• 001-110 Material master for industry
• 111-120 Reserved for customers (except where the values are already in use)
• 121-150 Material master for industry
• 151-210 Material master for retail 211-240 Reserved for customers

Create and maintain field references - (OMS9)

All the fields in the same fields group will have the same field selection option. (hide, display, required entry, or optional entry)

You can see where a field reference is used by choosing Where-used list.

Define or change the field references as required (except for field references with the prefix SAP which must not be changed). New field references must begin with Y or Z.

Changing the Field Selection Options for a Field Selection Group

1. Specify the field selection group.
2. Select the field selection option (hide, display, required entry, or optional entry) for each field reference as required.
3. Save.

Creating a Field Reference

1. Choose New entries.
2. Specify a field reference beginning with Y or Z.
3. Select the field selection option for each field selection group as required. # Save.

Changing a Field Reference

1. Double-click the relevant field reference.
2. Change the field selection option for each field selection group as required. # Save.

Define industry sectors and industry-sector-specific field selection-OMS3

In this step, you check the industry sectors and, if necessary, create new ones. You use the industry sector to determine which fields require an entry when maintaining material master data and which fields do not (an entry being optional in this case).

The standard SAP R/3 System comes with the following industry sectors:

• A for plant engineering and construction
• C for the chemical industry
• M for mechanical engineering
• P for pharmaceuticals

You can change the name of the industry sector (plant engineering and construction, and so on) and, if necessary, the field input control too (via the field reference).

Define plant-specific field selection and screen selection in OMSA

You can define the input attributes of the fields in material master records differently for each plant and/or restrict the maintenance statuses allowed for each plant

You do not need to make any entries for your plants if the same screen selection is going to apply to all plants.

When configuring the maintenance status, make sure that only plant-specific views can be hidden. Since the Basic Data view and Classification view are not plant-specific, they should not be hidden.