Master data is the core data that is used as a base for any transaction. If you are producing, transferring stock, selling, purchasing, doing physical inventory, whatever your activity may be, it requires certain master data to be maintained. Material Master: What you should know about material master?

A material in SAP is a logical representation of certain goods or services that is an object of production, sales, purchasing, inventory management, etc. It can be a car, a car part, gasoline, transportation service, or consulting service, for example.

All the information for all materials on their potential use and characteristics in SAP is called material master. This is considered to be the most important master data in SAP (there are also customer master data, vendor master data, conditions/pricing master data, etc), and all the processing of the materials is influenced by material master. That is why it’s crucial to have a precise and well-maintained material master.

In order to be confident in your actions, you need to understand material master views and their implications on processes in other modules, business transactions, and a few more helpful information like tables that store material master data, transactions for mass material maintenance (for changing certain characteristics for a large number of materials at once).