Material Determination

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 This is setup when business requires swapping of one

material by the other material in a sales document.
 Example - When a product is under engineering

change or there is a bug and you have another

product, which is acceptable as replacement, then
material determination can be used to set this
scenario.

Old product can be replaced by new product as per
the launch date of the product.

 Material determination is also called as “Product

selection”.
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 It uses condition technique for material

 Material determination procedure is based on the sales

document type. With condition technique, criteria can be
defined and condition records can be maintained.

 Standard material determination procedure for order type

OR is A00001.

 Standard material determination condition type is A001.

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 With standard setup, condition record for swap materials

is maintained for “material entered”. It means in standard
SAP, material determination is triggered when material is
entered in the sales order.

 Additional criteria can be added by customizing condition

type A001.

 Material condition records are maintained in the main

transaction menu in master data
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 Swapping can be based on certain business conditions.

These are called as Substitution reasons. For each
substitution reason, you can define substitution strategy.

 Substitution strategy controls

 System will automatically replace product as per
material determination record after carrying out
availability check or can give list of substitute
products for users to check and select or replace
material without availability check.
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 It can also control whether both substituted and
substitute material can be displayed in the sales order or
only substitute material is to be displayed in the sales
order.

 It controls printing of substituted or substitute material on

output types like order confirmations.

 In delivery, no material determination is carried out for

items copied from the order.

 Material determination in a delivery is carried out for new

items if material determination has been activated for the
corresponding sales document type.