MINST SAP (Material Master View: Plant Maintenance) Structure details
Description: Material Master View: Plant Maintenance
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
MINST is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "Material Master View: Plant Maintenance" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_MINST TYPE MINST.
The MINST table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Material Master View: Plant Maintenance data available in SAP. These include MATNR (Material Number), GROES (Size/dimensions), GEWEI (Weight Unit), BRGEW (Gross Weight).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Can be enhanced (character-type or numeric)
SAP MINST structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
| Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
| MAKTX | Material Description (Short Text) | MAKTX | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| MATNR | Material Number | MATNR | CHAR | 18 | Assigned to domain | MATN1 | MATNR | MAT | S_MAT1 |
| GROES | Size/dimensions | GROES | CHAR | 32 | CHAR32 | ||||
| GEWEI | Weight Unit | GEWEI | UNIT | 3 | Assigned to domain | CUNIT | MEINS | ||
| BRGEW | Gross Weight | BRGEW | QUAN | 13(3) | MENG13 | ||||
| RBNRM | Catalog Profile | RBNR | CHAR | 9 | Assigned to domain | RBNR | |||
| KZKFG | Configurable Material | KZKFG | CHAR | 1 | XFELD | ||||
| CUOBJ | Internal object number | CUOBM | NUMC | 18 | CUOBJ | ||||
| STDPD | Configurable material | STDPD | CHAR | 18 | Assigned to domain | MATN1 | MATNR | ||
| WERKS | Plant | WERKS_D | CHAR | 4 | Assigned to domain | WERKS | WRK | H_T001W_C | |
| CUOBF | Internal object number | CUOBM | NUMC | 18 | CUOBJ | ||||
| SATNR | Cross-Plant Configurable Material | SATNR | CHAR | 18 | Assigned to domain | MATN1 | MATNR | ||
| SERLV | Level of Explicitness for Serial Number | SERLV | CHAR | 1 | SERLV |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure MINST using ABAP code?
As MINST is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on MINST as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table MINST
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about MINST and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
Search for further information about these or an SAP related objects