T438Y SAP table for – Absolute Periods for Period Profile for Safety Time

Here we would like to draw your attention to T438Y table in SAP. As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP PP-MRP (Material Requirements Planning – PP) component which is coming under PP module (Production Planning). T438Y is a SAP standard transparent table used for storing Absolute Periods for Period Profile for Safety Time related data in SAP. It comes under the package MD0C.

SAP T438Y table

Table T438Y technical data

TableT438Y
Data storingAbsolute Periods for Period Profile for Safety Time
ModulePP
ComponentPP-MRP
SAP PackageMD0C
Delivery ClassC – Customer table, data is only maintained by the customer
Table CategoryTRANSPARENT

SAP T438Y 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 T438Y table.

  • MANDT : Client
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 3
  • SHPRO
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 3
  • SHBIS
    Its a key field. Its data type is D (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • SHDEC
    Its data type is N (Character String with Digits Only) with field length 2