In Material Determination we have u0093Define Substitution Reasonsu0094.

[Former Member]

In Material Determination we have “Define Substitution Reasons”.

0001 - Advertising campaign

0002 - Customer material

0003 - Internat. article No.

0004 - Automatic material selection

0005 - Man. material selection

0006 - ProdSel Order only.

Please advice what does each reason mean and when can we use each of these reasons.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Roy,

Material determination provides you with a tool for automatically exchanging materials in the sales and delivery documents as well. When you process a sales document, the system automatically searches for a suitable condition record provided through condition technique. You can define substitution reason to every condition record in material determination that defines how the material should be determined. You can define substitution reason in customising such as <b>0001 – advertising campaign; 0002 – customised material; 003 – EAN number.</b>

Note 1: You do not need material master record for the material number that you are replacing. During order entry, the material ordered by the customer is replaced by the substitute defined in the master record.

Note 2: the item overview of the Sales A contains information about the material that was originally entered as well as the reason for substitution.

The functionality of manual and automatic product selection is available during material determination.

a. Reason for substitution <b>0005:</b> manual product selection (list of default values)

b. Reason for substitution <b>0004 & 0006:</b> automatic product selection (depends on product availability in order and delivery)

In manual product selection <b>(0005),</b> the system does not automatically replace the product. Instead, it displays a list of all the substitution materials and other information in the master record doing the availability check such as quantity available that can be confirmed on the customers requested delivery date and if the full quantity cannot be met, the system proposes a new date on which the material can be completely delivered. You can then select the required material from the list.

During automatic product selection <b>(0004 & 0006)</b> the system replaces the entered material automatically if it is not available. When you enter an order, the system tries to fill the quantity of the order with the first material in the material determination master record. If there is no enough quantity available then it fills the remaining quantity with the next material.

You can choose whether or not to run the material determination during the delivery process for the same material, as the result of the substitution may change due to the new availability situation of the material.

Note: You can use “Product Attributes” in the material and customer master records to exclude a particular material from product selection. This means that the rejected materials will not be included when system determines a substitution material. This only applies to products entered manually. In the case of material determination, the system automatically disregards products with attributes which the ship-to party has rejected.

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Regards

Sai

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi sai,

First I would thank you for your reply, but...

I need an explanation of each substitution reasons with example for

0001 – advertising campaign -

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why is advertising campaign used.

0002 – customised material -

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why is customised material used.

0003 -- Internat.Article No.------- why is Internat.Article No used.

0004-- Autom.mat.selection -

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why is Autom.mat.selection used.

0005 --Man.mat.selection -

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why is Man.mat.selection used.

006--- ProdSel - Order only -

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why is ProdSel - Order only used.

if know with example, please explane.....emergency!!!

Regards,

Roy.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The substitution reasons are entered in the master records for material determination.

You can specify additional control parameters and system responses for each substitution reason:

U can define u own reasoon with controls avilable

1.You can specify whether the substituted material is included in relevant output types (for example, order confirmation), so that you can tell what the original material was after material determination has been carried out.

2.You can control whether the system issues a warning message before it substitutes a material.

3.You can specify whether a material is automatically substituted by another, or whether several possible substitutes are displayed for selection.

4.With the outcome, you specify whether a document item is replaced or whether the substitute is created as a subitem of the original entry.

Activities

1. Enter an alphanumeric key with a maximum of 4 characters together with a textual description.

2. Specify the control parameters for the substitution reason.

3. Ensure that the reason for substitution is entered in the master records for material determination.

Eg: In subsition reasons:

U will find the following columns

<b>Entry

warning

strategy

outcome

subsitution catergory</b>

<b>ENTRY</b>

Indicates whether the system prints the name or number of the original material (before substitution) on corresponding output (for example, on order confirmations).

<b>WARNING</b>

It display a mesasge in sales order while doing material determination

<b>STARTEGY</b>

Controls whether product selection should occur automatically in the background or whether the alternative materials should be offered for selection in a dialog box.Ie., while in sales order it will diaply list of materials sybsituted for the material with avalibility check or not

It has following controls

Automatic

A Substitute products are displayed for selection

B General material determination with selection, without ATP

<b>OUTCOME</b>

Controls whether the outcome of product selection should replace the original entry or whether it should be recorded as a subitem of the original entry.

<b>Note: important thing to be noted is that if u are selecting outcome u should select STARTEGY & SUBSITITUTION CATEGORY</b>

<b>SUBSTITUTION CATEGORY</b>

In repair orders with service products (order type RAS in the standard system), when you enter a serviceable material in the repair request item, the system performs material determination to find suitable service products for the serviceable material.

hope this helps u

regards,

Arun prasad