How to used transaction MM50 to extend a number of materials from one plant to another?

By: Christopher

Yes, MM50 will allow for you to create materials into new plant codes or even sales orgs and distribution channels.

I recommend extending one of your materials manually with generic settings or settings that you can lookup easily for mass changing via LSMW or MM17. 

Second, you need to open transaction MM50.

Input the Maintenance status's that you need for all of your materials going to the new plants .

So for example of you need views MRP1, 2 3 & 4 along with Costing 1 & 2 you would choose D for MRPviews and G for Costing views.

Then enter in the target plant that you want to extend to.
If you also want to extend materials to additional sales org's and distribution channels do that as well.

Enter in the materials that you want to extend and click the execute button.

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The system will pull up all of the options that are currently NOT allocated to the material master.
Click the select all button.
Click the "Reference / organization" button.
-  The material that I recomended that you setup with generic settings put that material code here.
-  Input the copy from plant that you gave the generic settings to.
-  Input the copy from Sales organization (If you are extending to V (sales org) views).
-  Input the copy from Distribution Channel ((If you are extending to V (sales org) views).
-  Click the continue button.

You are ready to start the extension process.  If you have a macro that you can program this can be helpfull here because if you have a large number of materials and views to extend your index finger is going to be tired from hitting the enter buttion a few million times! 

Once you click maintain the system will step in to the first set of views.  The views are orgainzed by the letter codes (maintenance status) and will go from A to Z in assending order so be surprised when Costing views are being setup before Workscheduling and so on. 

Also views like purchasing and sales have a text field assigned to them.  Typically for the views that do not have text views tied to them will let you just hold the enter key in and it will automatically save, but when you have a set of views like purchasing or sales that have a text view as part of this group the "holding down of the enter key" will not work and you will need to figure out how to click save or CTRL+S when you reach these views. 

Bottom line it is like MM01 except it cycles thru each set of view for each material until finished with that set of views then moves to the next set of views.
Ex:  Will finish MRP views for all materials before moving onto the Costing views. 

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