Material Determination

[Former Member]

Hello Everyone,

"You do not need a material master record for the material number that you are replacing".

I wish to confirm what actually does this statement mean :

Is it

1. When configuring material substitution of Material A with Material B, Material B, the material code, need not be created in the material master data .

or is it

2. When configuring material determination the entered material in the sales order need not be a material code that is already created in the material master data? For example,

I configure a Material Determination as follows:

Material Entered : Monitor99

Material : ATA99

Reason : Z99

Alternative Materials: ATA99, ATA88, ATA77

In the sales order, i enter Monitor99 as the material code and it will replace by ATA99?

regards

Bass

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Bass,

I also had the same confusion; but it is cleared.

Here the material entered is Monitor99; this will be replaced by ATA99. Here you will have material master records for both the items Monitor99 and ATA99.

If I want to give a new name in the field u2018Material enteredu2019 as u2018Miracle Monitoru2019, I can give. The point is there is no need of material master record for u2018Miracle Monitoru2019.

When you create a sales order, just enter the word u2018Miracle Monitoru2019, the item name will change to ATA99.

Regards,

K Bharathi

[Former Member]

NO NEED TO MATERIAL A TO BE CREATED IF SUBSTITUTION IS ACTIVE.

[Former Member]

Dear Aton

ONLY text items do NOT have/need a material master record.

For the rest, material master is a MUST.

Hope . this clears you.

Rgds

Sumanth.Gururaj

Consultant/Systems Analyst - SAP SD/MM

[Former Member]

Thanks Sumanth, points awarded.

but that is what the documentation says and I am confused by it or trying to understand what it means.

Does anyone have any idea what the sentence mean?

regards

Bass