Knowledge Management

Question:
Hello,
We use material groups, but they need to be reworked. Our management wants to put commodity code (company-specific) into it and then a more specific code for the buyers. They are looking for reports by commodity code. Right now, we don't really use standard reports, but we might in the future. I am wondering, if the material group is a good place for putting our 'commodity code' and another code for the buyers. (Lets say the first 2 characters for the commodity, the remaining ones for the buyers within this commodity code.)
We might use BW in the future. Don't standard reports use material group as a field for selection, totaling quantities etc.? How do you handle this?
Thank you.
Answer:
Hi,
The defintion of material group is very much subject to your company's product classification system (PCS) and each company will be having the specific one. It is, therefore, hard for us to let you know whether the inclusion of company code as part of the PCS structure or not. However, you can be assured that the material group is the common filtering parameter in most of standard reports.
Cheers,
HT