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Summary
This document explains what is material determination in SAP sales and distribution.This configuration is
setup when business requires swapping of one material by the other material in a sales document.The
concept of material determination is also called as Product Selection i.e, Old product can be replaced by
new product as per the lauch date of the product.
Author: Priyadharshini Shanmugasundaram
Company: Applexus Technologies Pvt Ltd
Created on: 19 May, 2011
Author Bio
Priyadharshini Shanmugasundaram is currently working as SAP TechnoFunctional Consultant in
Applexus Technologies Pvt Ltd.
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Table of Contents
Material Determination ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Purpose of Substitution Strategy ........................................................................................................................ 3
Configuration for Material Determination: ........................................................................................................... 4
Step 1: Maintain Field Catelog ........................................................................................................................ 5
Step 2: Click on Display Condition tables ..................................................................................................... 5
Step 3: Maintain Access Sequences .............................................................................................................. 6
Step 4: Maintain procedure ............................................................................................................................. 7
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 12
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 13
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Material Determination
Substituting one product with another product is called material determination.The product is only substituted
during the specific period.
Eg : If material MT001 is ordered and is not available to purchase due to some reasons(could be out of stock
or is not moving or due to competition),with material determination the system automatically substitutes it with
MT002.
Material Determination
Sales Order
Both items MT001 and MT002 have same price and same features except the shape (which is an added
feature in material MT002).
Material Determination uses condition technique to swap one material for another in sales order, when
certain conditions apply. Using material determination concept, you can automatically substitute the following:
Customer specific product numbers with your own material numbers.
International Article numbers (EANs) with your own material numbers.
Seasonal products (Special gift-wrapping of a material for a festive season).
Substituting discontinued materials with newer materials.
Mainly the Material determination procedure is based on the sales document type. Using condition technique,
the criteria can be defined and condition records can be maintained.
Standard material determination procedure for order type OR is A0001.
Standard material determination condition type is A001.
Swapping the product can be based on certain business conditions. These are called substitution
reasons.For each substitution reason,you can define a substitution strategy.
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Select 001 (Material Entered) and click enter.The fields in the condition table 001 appears.
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Here, you can notice that the access sequence contains the condition table 001.The first field No is the
access number in which the system will read the accesses.
Now select the record and click on fields.Here,you can see the fields contained in the condition record.
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Here, you can see that the procedure contains the condition type A001.
Assign Procedures to Sales Document Type
In this step we would assign the procedure A0001 to our sales document type.
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You can also access this screen using the transaction OVRQ.
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Now if you press on enter,instead of material 1803, 1804 will appear and ordered due to material
determination configuration.
Hope the concept of Material Determination in SAP Sales and Distribution is clearly understood.
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