Diagnosis
You have indicated that the material ledger is to be activated
for one or more valuation areas.
After you activate the material ledger, you must convert the data forthese valuation areas to your live system. This ensuresconsistency of the valuation data and the material ledger is flaggedinternally as being in production.

System Response
You can only start up production in these valuation areas in MaterialsManagement once the data has been converted after activation of theMaterial Ledger.

Procedure
Decide the valuation areas for which you wish to activate the MaterialLedger.
Print out this system message.
Save your Customizing settings.
Convert the data for the Material Ledger.
You have two options:

• You activate the Material Ledger in a system that does not contain any
production data and transport the Customizing settings to yourproduction system.
You must ensure that the data is converted for the Material Ledger inthe production system before you start work with Materials Management.

• You activate the Material Ledger in a system containing production

data. Immediately after activating the Material Ledger, you mustconvert the data for production start-up.
Choose Accounting -> Controlling -> Actual costing/Material ledger-> Utilities -> Production startup.