This activity code is used to indicate the number of sub-groups of type Material.
These sub-groups are present for instance in function Standard cost.

Recommended values

Functions impacted

The following functions are impacted by the activity code  :

  Common data > Products > Product categories

  Common data > Products > Products

Linked activity codes

The following technical activity codes are linked to the code MAT.These codes are never entered in folder management, because their value is calculated.

  MAT2 (Number of material groups), MATD (Number of material groups), MATS (Number of material groups+total).