Material Superseeding in SD

[former_member590702]

Hello SAP experts,

We are planning to use the SAP STD functionality of Material "superseeding" .

By this ,if the material has revisions due to improved quality or improved design, then Material A (older material) will be superseeded (replaced ) by Newer Material (New Material).

Material A --> Original Material.

Material B --> New Material with Improved design or Quality.

While Creating Sales Order in SD, if user enters Material A, system should automatically replace it with newer Material using the "Superseeding" Functionality.

To make this Setup,i refered below SAP HELP link and maintain material chain in tcode- PIC01.

https://help.sap.com/saphelp_dimp50/helpdata/en/f7/a62238b497a552e10000009b38f842/frameset.htm

But this DOES NOT WORK. If any one has used this functionality, could you please help me to setup this.

Appreciating your quick response.

Thanks and Regards,

Umesh Karane

[bibhuti123]

Hello all,

I have a query related to above mentioned material chain maintenance(Material Superseeding).

Is there any APIs or Idocs to perform this material chain maintenance either of the below mentioned both ways:

Way1: Using SAP Supersession tool(Transaction PIC01)

Way2: Using SAP material master , maintaining the field "Old material number".

Any inputs will be appreciated

Thank you and Regards.

[Lakshmipathi]

Have a look at OSS notes 953687, 934441 and 1313757

[former_member590702]

Hello G Lakshmipathi,

The 3 SAP NOTES are related to different issue ,like where incorrect Materials are subsituted in Orders.NOTE-934441 does not seem to superseeding topic at all.

Thanks and Regards,

Umesh Karane.

[former_member478767]

Hello G Lakshmipathi:

Have you figure out the root cause? we are using S4 1809 version and we also have the same problem.

Would you share how did you fix it ? thanks.

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[former_member590702]

hello G Lakshmipathi,

I have refered the above help.sap link and maintained the Supersession chain of materials

like Material A,Materials B and Material C in tcode- PIC01. Refer attached screenshot.

Materials B is Revised / newer form of Material A and Material C is revised form of Material B.

So, when i enter Material A in Sales Order, it should Replace automatically to Newer material ie. Material B, but

there is NO ERROR message thrown and materials REMAIN the same ie. Material A and is NOT replaced to newer one as required.

Thanks and Regards,

Umesh Karane..

[Lakshmipathi]

But this DOES NOT WORK

Would you mind in sharing more information? From your above statement, it is not clear whether system is triggering any error message.