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Material Determination in Sales and Distribution. For more information, visit the Enterprise Resource Planning Homepage.
Summary
This document explains what is material determination in SAP sales and distribution.This configuration is setup when business requires swapping of one material by the other material in a sales document.The concept of material determination is also called as Product Selection i.e, Old product can be replaced by new product as per the lauch date of the product. Author: Priyadharshini Shanmugasundaram
Author Bio
Priyadharshini Shanmugasundaram is currently working as SAP TechnoFunctional Consultant in Applexus Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Table of Contents
Material Determination ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Purpose of Substitution Strategy ........................................................................................................................ 3 Configuration for Material Determination: ........................................................................................................... 4 Step 1: Maintain Field Catelog ........................................................................................................................ 5 Step 2: Click on Display Condition tables ..................................................................................................... 5 Step 3: Maintain Access Sequences .............................................................................................................. 6 Step 4: Maintain procedure ............................................................................................................................. 7 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 13
Material Determination
Substituting one product with another product is called material determination.The product is only substituted during the specific period. Eg : If material MT001 is ordered and is not available to purchase due to some reasons(could be out of stock or is not moving or due to competition),with material determination the system automatically substitutes it with MT002.
MT001
MT002
Both items MT001 and MT002 have same price and same features except the shape (which is an added feature in material MT002). Material Determination uses condition technique to swap one material for another in sales order, when certain conditions apply. Using material determination concept, you can automatically substitute the following: Customer specific product numbers with your own material numbers. International Article numbers (EANs) with your own material numbers. Seasonal products (Special gift-wrapping of a material for a festive season). Substituting discontinued materials with newer materials.
Mainly the Material determination procedure is based on the sales document type. Using condition technique, the criteria can be defined and condition records can be maintained. Standard material determination procedure for order type OR is A0001. Standard material determination condition type is A001. Swapping the product can be based on certain business conditions. These are called substitution reasons.For each substitution reason,you can define a substitution strategy.
Step 1: Maintain Field Catelog We can also access this screen using the transaction OV26. Field Catelog contains fields used by the system to determine substitution materials in the Material determination procedure. Click on Maintain Field Catelog.The following screen appears.
Click on backspace and come to the main screen. Step 2: Click on Display Condition tables
Select 001 (Material Entered) and click enter.The fields in the condition table 001 appears.
Here, you can notice that the access sequence contains the condition table 001.The first field No is the access number in which the system will read the accesses. Now select the record and click on fields.Here,you can see the fields contained in the condition record. Step 4: Maintain procedure
Here, you can see that the procedure contains the condition type A001. Assign Procedures to Sales Document Type In this step we would assign the procedure A0001 to our sales document type.
You can also access this screen using the transaction OVRQ.
In this screen you can maintain the substitution reasons. Maintaining Materials for Substitution Goto transaction VB11 or follow the navigation bath. Path : SAP Menu -> Logistics -> Sales and Distribution -> Master Data -> Products -> Material Determination -> create
Maintain the substitution material information and click on save. Now test the configuration by creating a sales order.
Now if you press on enter,instead of material 1803, 1804 will appear and ordered due to material determination configuration.
Hope the concept of Material Determination in SAP Sales and Distribution is clearly understood.
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