How the Fields Are Used

Move the cursor to the Material field and click the Field Level Help button on the toolbar. (See Lesson 2, "Using the SAP R/3 Interface," for information on toolbar buttons.) SAP R/3 displays a dialog box that tells you how to use the field (see Figure 3.6).

Figure 3.6. Field-level help.

Sometimes SAP R/3 uses fields in different ways for different kinds of records. For the purchase requisition in the Material field, for example, you could be buying a material that your company commonly buys. In this case, somebody in your company may already have created a master record for this material. For a material that already exists ...

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