How To Fix MM036 - A pricing reference material is also defined for &

MM036 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: MM - Messages for material master maintenance and Customizing

• Message number: 036

• Message text: A pricing reference material is also defined for &

What causes this issue?

You have entered a pricing reference material for which a pricing
reference material has already been entered. Such chains of pricing
reference materials are not supported by the system.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

You have the following options:
Use another pricing reference material.
Remove the pricing reference material for &V1&.

Procedure for System Administrators

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message MM036 - A pricing reference material is also defined for & ?

  The SAP error message MM036 indicates that there is a conflict in the pricing setup for a material. Specifically, it means that a pricing reference material has already been defined for the material you are trying to work with. This typically occurs in the context of material master data maintenance, particularly when dealing with pricing conditions in the Materials Management (MM) module.
  
  Cause:
  The error arises when:
  
  You are trying to assign a pricing reference material to a material that already has a pricing reference defined.
  There is an attempt to create or change a material master record where the pricing reference is already in use.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the MM036 error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Existing Pricing Reference:
  
  Go to the material master record of the material in question and check if a pricing reference material is already assigned.
  You can do this by navigating to the material master (transaction code MM03) and checking the