MKAL SAP table for – Production Versions of Material

Here we would like to draw your attention to MKAL table in SAP. As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP PP-PI (Production Planning for Process Industries – PP) component which is coming under PP module (Production Planning). MKAL is a SAP standard transparent table used for storing Production Versions of Material related data in SAP. It comes under the package CPFX.

SAP MKAL table

Table MKAL technical data

TableMKAL
Data storingProduction Versions of Material
ModulePP
ComponentPP-PI
SAP PackageCPFX
Delivery ClassA – Application table (master and transaction data)
Table CategoryTRANSPARENT

SAP MKAL Table Fields

Here is the details of each fields in this table.You can find the discription, data type and assigned lenth of each of the fields in MKAL table.

  • MANDT : Client
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 3
  • PLNNR : Key for Task List Group
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 8
  • BESKZ : Procurement Type
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 1
  • LOSGR
    Its data type is P (Packed number (number with fixed number of decimal places)) with field length 7
  • MDV01
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 8
  • TEXT1
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 40
  • VERTO : MRP Distribution Key
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 4
  • BSTMI
    Its data type is P (Packed number (number with fixed number of decimal places)) with field length 7
  • RGEKZ : Indicator: Backflushing for order
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 1
  • PLTYG
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 1
  • ALNAG
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 2
  • PLNNM
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 8
  • WERKS : Plant
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 4
  • CSPLT
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 4
  • PRVBE : Production Supply Area
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 10
  • PRDAT
    Its data type is D (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • PRFG_R
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 1
  • PRFG_S
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 1
  • .INCLU–AP : Extension for Joint Venture Accounting
    Its include structure/component is is PPEGUID
  • ADATU
    Its data type is D (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • STLAN : BOM Usage
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 1