MATERIAL

DETERMINATION
DEFINITION
 Substituting one product with another
product is called material determination.
 The product is only substituted during the
specific period.
 Material Determination uses condition
technique to swap one material for another
in sales order, when certain conditions
apply.
YOU CAN AUTOMATICALLY
SUBSTITUTE

 Customer specific product numbers with your

own material numbers.
 International Article numbers (EAN‟s) 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
PURPOSE OF SUBSTITUTION
STRATEGY
 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.
 This strategy also controls whether both substituted
and substitute materials is to be displayed in the sales
order or only substitute materials is to be displayed.
 It also controls display of substituted or substitute
materials on output types like order confirmations.
 In delivery, no material determination is carried out
for items copied from the order.
MATERIAL DETERMINATION
 The T-code to create material determination
is VB11