Material determination

[Former Member]

Hi All,

What is the use of material substitution reason in material determination.

a) How is related with material determination

b) How to carry out material determination manually.

Regards,

Ashima

[Former Member]

Hi,

Material Determination is used to swap one material for another.It is possible to get a list of materials for substituiton,but remember you can substitue only one material from the list.

This can be done through substituiton reason T Code [OVRQ]

See the substitution reason number for Manual Material Selection

- check the Entry box

- check the Warning box

- select A for Stategy

- save.

Go To VB11 to create Material Determination (taking into consideration that all the previous steps for material determiantion i.e. maintaining condition types,maintaining procedures for material determination and assigning procedures to sales doc. types have been done)

Create one material determination,dont forget to give the Subst reason on top and also on the line.

Click the Variants Icon on top left-Sreen opens

Specify different materials you want to swap with the material you have enterd

Note that the subst reason is already copied on the screen

Remember materials should be of the same sales area,atleast Divisions should be same.

Best Regards,

Amit.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Problem has been resolved. Let me know one more thing , what is the use of MRP field by defining variants and why is it that we can define MRP on only one material under the variant?

Regards,

Ashima

[Former Member]

The reason for substitution is basically sometime the company have special promotions , so the message could be that the reason for substitution is special promotion or, another reason could be if some time you want give a special quality to introduce in the market a product or switch the quality of the product if the prices are high to maintain, or if the customer call the same item that you sell with a different name than what they call in your company all that could be reason for substitutions.