Sometimes a planner wishes to share the planning status of a particular material with colleagues or partners that are not SAP users. In this case it is useful to export the planning overview to Excel and perhaps pimp the lay-out with some colorful headers.
To do this -from within MD04 or MD07- go to Menu > List > Variable Print.
Immediately a new overview opens up that may look less attractive than the overview you are used to. On the screen ‘Print list – variable’ you can change the lay-out and save it as a variant like you are used to in standard SAP reporting.
To get the best Excel results export the report directly to an Excel table, as opposed to first store it as a local file and then open it in Excel. This way the lay-out is optimized for direct filtering and sorting.
This is all there is to it. Sometimes SAP life is that easy.
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Thanks for the tip
Many thanks for the tip to transfer MD04 to excel and to print.
Regards
Great Job