SAP ABAP Creating a Material using a BAPI Part 1

SAP ABAP Creating a Material using a BAPI

In SAP ABAP you can create a Material using a BAPI. To do so you first need to get the Next Material Number. This can be obtained by using the following BAPI.

To create a Material in SAP using a BAPI you need to use the following 2 BAPIs

BAPI_MATERIAL_GETINTNUMBER

BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA

If you are suing the transaction MM01 to create a Material, you can see the Material Number being assigned automatically. If you have not noticed this please run the transaction MM01 and enter the values in the initial screen. After hitting enter you will see the Material Number appear in the next screen automatically.

Let us now see the parameters that need to be passed to the BAPI BAPI_MATERIAL_GETINTNUMBER.

The Mandatory Parameters that need to be passed to the BAPI are as follows.

Material Type
Industry Sector
Required Numbers

Enter the desired values and generate the Next Material Number. Once you obtain the Material Number, you then need to pass this number to the following BAPI.

BAPI to create Material in SAP

BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA

The following program demonstrates the BAPI BAPI_MATERIAL_GETINTNUMBER

REPORT ZEX_GETMATNUM .

Parameters: p_matype like BAPIMATDOA-MATL_TYPE,
            p_indsr like BAPIMATDOA-IND_SECTOR,
            p_reqnum like BAPIMATALL-REQ_NUMBERS.

Data: d_ret like BAPIRETURN1.

Data: int_matnum type BAPIMATINR occurs 0.

CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_MATERIAL_GETINTNUMBER'
  EXPORTING
    MATERIAL_TYPE          = p_matype
   INDUSTRY_SECTOR         = p_indsr
   REQUIRED_NUMBERS        = p_reqnum
 IMPORTING
   RETURN                  = d_ret
  TABLES
    MATERIAL_NUMBER        = int_matnum
          .

          if sy-subrc = 0.

          endif.

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I have used the following Parameters:

Material Type            HAWA
Industry Sector         C
Required Numbers     1

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See Also: SAP ABAP Creating a Material using a BAPI Part 2
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