How To Fix IW279 - Purchasing data for material & has not been maintained

IW279 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: IW - Order Processing

• Message number: 279

• Message text: Purchasing data for material & has not been maintained

What causes this issue?

No purchasing data is maintained for material &V1&. This is
necessary to be able to create a maintenance order.

System Response

INCLUDE 'KEINE-VERARBEITUNG' OBJECT DOKU ID TX LANGUAGE E

How to fix this error?

Branch into the master record of material &V1& and maintain the
data from a purchasing point of view:

<DS:TRAN.MM01>Proceed</>
ENDIF
Select the maintenance order again after this.
INCLUDE 'DARF-NICHT' OBJECT DOKU ID TX LANGUAGE E

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

IW279 - Details

• The SAP error message IW279 indicates that purchasing data for a specific material has not been maintained. This error typically occurs when you are trying to create or process a maintenance order or a work order for a material that lacks the necessary purchasing information in the system.
  
  Cause:
  The primary cause of this error is that the material in question does not have the required purchasing data maintained in the material master record. This can happen if:
  
  The material is newly created and the purchasing data has not been entered.
  The material is not set up for purchasing (e.g., it may be a non-purchasable item).
  The purchasing view of the material master is incomplete or not activated.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you need to maintain the purchasing data for the material in the material master. Here are the steps to do this:
  
  
  Access Material Master:
  
  Go to transaction code MM01 (Create Material) or MM02 (Change Material).
  Enter the