MRO Material Management
Summary: The MRO material management concept describes how materials are defined, requested, reserved, and used in maintenance workflows. It explains the relationship between material-related objects such as Material, Material Master, and Reservation, and how these objects are connected to tasks or work packages.
MRO material management is used to support maintenance work with the required spare parts, consumables, tools, or other material items.
In a maintenance workflow, users may need to know:
- which material is required for a task or work package
- whether the required material is available
- how much material is required
- how much material has already been reserved
- whether the material can be used
- whether a reservation is still open, fulfilled, or no longer relevant
The material management concept separates the general definition of a material from its actual usage in maintenance work.
A material can be defined centrally as master data and then used in different tasks, work packages, or reservations.
