Material Determination

[ipsit_mohapatra]

Hi all

In material determination how you configure the system should propose when product A is not available then only system substitute with product B. If A is available 60% quantity. How do you do in the situation?

regards

ipsit

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Refer link below it will help u

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/5605a7545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm

<b>SD material Determination based on availability check </b>

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 functionality. It does not however take the availability 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 availability check at the requirement class level via global and mandatory configuration the schedule line category availability check deals with the order.

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

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

1. Must be switched on at the requirement class level and at the schedule line level.

2. Reqmnt type must exist by which a requirement 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 whether the system is to create individual or collective reqmnt)

A combination of checking group and checking rule will determine the scope of availability check.

[Former Member]

hi,

Availability check is always going on in the back ground before substitution of material with new one .

The most important thing which control everything is the Proposed reason .

And regarding ur point of 60% availability i feel it should still relace the material with new one as the order is not getting fullfilled.