Material

To begin the process of planning, procuring and consuming Material - the Material must be defined in the Material Master. In OMNI the material master is organized as a 3-level hierarchy:

• Material Group: The top-most level of the material hierarchy.
• Material SubGroup: Each Group contains many Subgroups.
• Material Sub-Subgroup: Each Subgroup contains main Sub-Subgroups. Material that don't have Sub-Subgroups should be created with NA (Not Applicable) as the Sub-SubGroup.

Each Material has a 16 character code the first 12 characters are derived from the Group, Sub-group and Sub-Subgroup, the last 4 characters are numeric and are defined in terms of the number of items in the Sub-Subgroup.

The process for creating Material in the Material Master is: