material determination

[Former Member]

Dear All,

as we all know that material determination in sap support only one material to be replaced if the ordered material is not enough to fill the open orders, my client is requesting to have back of as many as 7 different brand material to back the one for example Material A in the open orders, so material A is ordered and not available should be automatically replaced by B, and if B not available , mat A should be replace by Material C and so on. could any one please explain as to how this can be achieved in sap, and where & how the customization should be done.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

In standard SAP I think there is no solution. Try in this way,

example we are having materials A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H.

while maintaining condition records at VB11 T.code maintainlike this

For A material B

B C

C D

D E

E F

F G

G H

ask ur ABAPER to write a code in a such a way that once the stock of the any material available , material determination should not be processed further.

Please let me know if this worksout for ur requirement.

Thanks,

Ravi Duggirala

[Former Member]

Hi,

please check this link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/dd/55f71f545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm

SD material Determination based on availability check

For SD material Determination you can create a Substitution reason and on the Strategy field, the following info. is available:

Product selection in the background is performed on the basis of the availability check.

We want to have the material determination only in case on material shortage. We expect the Substitution reason to give us this functionallity. It does not hovever take the availabilty into account before substitution.

We thought the worse case is to create a ABAP which is linked to the "requirement" field in the Procedure (OV13).

Has anyone had the same requirement? Is this a bug or just incorrectly documented?

I also encountered this abnormally recently using material determination. In order to combat the problem, the first product substitution should be for the original material. I've illustrated this below:

Original Product: ABC

Substitutes: DEF, XYZ

In order to perform product substitution ONLY in the case of ATP failure for product ABC, structure the Material Determination record as follows:

Material Entered: ABC Substitutes: ABC

DEF

XYZ

There seems to be a devaition at availability check and or on a conceptual note still.

Availability check can be configured both at requiremnt class and at the schedule line categories level.

Whilst the availabilty check at the requirement class level via global and mandatory configuration the schedule line catgry availability check deals with the order.

It is mandatory that the reqmnt class is flagged off for avlblty check and the schdelu line cat need not be.

The following are the mandatory for Availability check to happen--

1. Must be swithced on at the requirment class level and at the schedule line level.

2. Reqmnt type must exist by which a requiremnt class can be found

3. There must exist a plant and is defined

4.Checking group must be defined in Material Master records(it controls whthr the system is to create individual or collective reqmnt)

A combination of checking gropup and checking rule will determine the scope of availbaility check.

Venkataswamy.y

[Former Member]

Hi Dilip:

Were you able to find the solution for your material determination for multiple models? We have a scenario similar to that and trying to find out different ways of acheving it. Any inputs are greatly appreciated.