SAP Note 27154 - Non-stock material in maintenance task lists

Symptom:

You cannot maintain purchasing information for materials of material type NLAG (non-stock material). The item category for material allocations without bill of material (free material allocation) is predefined with L (stock item) in the system and cannot be changed in the present configuration level. In the maintenance order the message occurs that the item type for the material and/or component is not allowed.

Cause and prerequisites

Free material allocation of non-stock material is not provided in the present configuration level.

Solution
The allocation of material of material type NLAG is not possible within the framework of the free material allocation. An allocation of non- stock material can be performed via the usage of maintenance bills of material in maintenance task lists. Therefore, you must maintain items of type N including the required external processing data in your bills of material structure. Then you can allocate them via the structure list within the framework of the material allocation of the maintenace task lists.
In order to remove the resulting error in the maintenance order, please make the following correction in the source code for Releases 3.0 FCS and 3.0A only.

Additional key words

General maintenance task list, equipment routing, maintenance order, free material allocation