Updating material characteristics at header level for entire material doc

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We have a requirement, while doing GR we will have a max of 50 line items all for one single PO and the material will be having one characteristic "Country or Origin"

My user need to enter this characteristic at the header level since it came from one single vendor...if he updates it in header level it should be copied to all the line items.

Please guide me how to proceed.

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

Quick question, as I am not on a SAP system now, where do you enter this Country of Origin today at item level? And where do you find this entered info later?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Jurgen,

Yes at item level they are entering....For each batch....

Is it possible to enter it in header level so that thru some user exit will be updated for each item.

We will be having more than 50 line items..

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

I am still have no clue where you enter the country of origin.

Is this a characteristic in your batch classification?

or is it some custom development that allows to enter the country of origin?

Based on these questions it is probably already clear that there is no way at header level to maintain this info.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

It is a characteristic for batches....Where in a single delivery challan we use to get more than 50 batches so item level maintaining the same characteristics will be a difficult task for my user

is there any other possibility like user exit or some thing which serves our purpose

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

I am sorry but I have no standard solution for a mass maintenance of classification while doing the GR.

How often does the country of origin change, or in how many receipts is it different from the CoO entered in your material master foreign trade view?

if this happens regular, then you might think about a individual solution like doing goods receipt from an own developed appication, having your own screens and  posting the data then with BAPI method.