Hi Refer below
How SAP do the material determination for inbound PO?
If customer send in their material# or UPC code or buyer material#, what is the order of material determination?
What is the difference between the item proposal and material determination product proposal?
Item Proposal or Product proposal:
"Item proposal is same as product proposal & SAP uses the two terms interchangeably.
"An item proposal is a list of materials and order quantities that can be copied into the sales order. Items can also be selected from a list and copied into a sales order."
1) Use transaction [VOV8] to configure the document type ("MS" for product proposal).
2) Use transaction [VA51] to create a proposal.
3) Enter the item proposal on the sales area data (sales tab) of the customer master record.
4) In [VA01] to create a sales order, Select Edit & propose items."
Material determination:
"Material determination uses the condition technique to swap one material for another when certain conditions apply. Material
determination is triggered by the material entered in the line item of the sales order.
Use transaction [VB11] to create a material determination condition record. And [OV12] for configuration of material determination.
Material determination is useful when old product is becoming obsolete or a new product is released by the company at specific date."
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.
Creating Multiple Materials in Material Determination
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.
When is Material determination triggered?
Material Determination is triggered as soon as we enter the materia lin the sales order.
Material determination is triggered when material quantity is lowered than reorder point what we mention in material master record
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