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Material Determination is a technique to determine the material to be used in the Sales Order. For e.g.,
Go to SPRO -> Reference IMG -> Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Material Determination ->
Maintain Prerequisites for Material Determination (As shown in the screenshot below):
The first step is “Maintain field catalog”. This screen can also be accessed from the transaction OV26.
Field catalog contains fields used by the system to determine substitution materials in the Material
Determination procedure. Click on “Maintain field catalog” in the screenshot above. Following screen
appears:
For our demo purpose, we would work on only MATNR (Material Number). Scroll down the list to find the
field MATNR.
Click on Backspace and come back to the main screen:
Now click on “Maintain access sequences”. Access sequence is a sequence of steps SAP follows in order
to obtain the condition record.
Select A001 and click on “Accesses”
In the above screenshot, the first field “No” is the access number. The access number is the order in
which the system will read the access sequence. For e.g., if the access numbers are 5,10,12,15 and 20,
then the system would start with the lowest entry (in this case it is 5). It would proceed further to 10 if it is
not able to process 5. If no record found, then no material determination would be carried out.
Now let us check out the Condition Types available. Go back to the earlier screen and click on “Define
condition types”. Following screen appears:
In this step, we would assign the above procedure to Sales Order document type.
Go to Transaction OV14 or go to Transaction SPRO -> Reference IMG -> Sales and Distribution -> Basic
Functions -> Material Determination -> Assign Procedures to Sales Document Types (As shown in the
screenshot below)
Scroll down the list for the order “OR” (Standard Order)
Go to Transaction OVRQ.
Enter the condition type in the above screen and click on Enter.
Testing
In the above screenshot, we have entered the material T-F299. Now press ENTER.
In the above screenshot, you can observe that the material is automatically converted from T-F299 to T-
F499.