The LIP codes and Product Family code are levels of re groupment designed in SAP to maintain a logical link between material codes which have similarities. All together, they are named "the material hierarchy". They are designed to organize a hierarchization of those re groupment levels. The typical hierarchy is LIP00 < LIP01 < ... < LIP06 < Product family. The definitions of each level are relatively free, and each SAP design has made its choices (PF1 and WP1 are organized differently). Not all the levels are mandatory. Classically, only PIF00 and PIF01 are used. The other levels much less. |
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| Business Term | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial Product / Material Group | In the SAP EHS module, data are maintained in a "commercial product" (or "PROD_COM"), which aggregates several materials that are the same product under different packaging. | |
| GBR: GBU Material Group (Ship-to) | Customer group ship to is a digit key which identifies group of customers ship to. | |
| GBR: GBU Material Sub-Group (Ship-to) | Customer sub group ship to is a digit key which identifies sub-group of customers ship to. | |
| Line Hierarchy | The line hierarchy represents the structure of a production line in the system, by means of a graphic. | |
| LIP01 Product Group | The LIP codes and Product Family code are levels of regroupment designed in SAP to maintain a logical link between material codes which have similarities - LIP01 | |
| LIP02 Product line 02 | The LIP codes and Product Family code are levels of regroupment designed in SAP to maintain a logical link between material codes which have similarities - LIP02 | |
| LIP04 Product line 04 | The LIP codes and Product Family code are levels of regroupment designed in SAP to maintain a logical link between material codes which have similarities - LIP04 | |
| Material Group 1 | Used in SAP for Solvay to indicate Industrial origin of the monocenter material | |
| Material Group 2 | Used in SAP for Solvay to indicate packaging type of material | |
| Material Packaging | Materials intended to enclose or hold together the materials that are to be packed | |
| Material Type | Key that assigns the material to a group of materials such as raw materials, operating supplies or trading goods. | |
| Material | Alphanumeric key uniquely identifying the material. | |
| Material Group | Key used to group together several materials or services with the same attributes, and to assign them to a particular material group. | |
| Material Prod. Hierarchy | Alphanumeric character string for grouping together materials by combining different characteristics. It is used for analyses and price determination. | More info |
| MRP Controller | Person responsible for material planning activities | More info |
| Prod. Scheduler | Scheduler responsible for a material in production activity control. | More info |
| Product Family Code | The LIP codes and Product Family code are levels of regroupment designed in SAP to maintain a logical link between material codes which have similarities. | More info |
| Product Group | Statistical regrouping of commercial articles, made abstraction of their conditioning, quality, brand names, and their centre of production. | More info |
| Production Line Hierarchy | Production lines are used as work centers in the planning of flow manufacturing and repetitive manufacturing. A production line can be either a grouping of several processing stations or an individual processing station. | More info |