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Function documentationCompositions and Listings

 

You use this function to enter the individual components of a specification.

In value assignment types of the category Composition, you can enter additional quantitative values, whereas in value assignment types of the category Listing, you can list the components without details.

Note Note

Using the where-used list for specifications function, you can display all specifications that have selected specifications as components in compositions and listings (see Determining Usage As Components).

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Prerequisites

You have created the components you want to assign to a specification as specifications in specification management.

Features

When you choose a value assignment type of the value assignment category Composition or Listing, the system also displays the Composition or Spec. Listing tab page.

Value Assignment Types of Value Assignment Category Composition

Firstly you define the reference value for component entries for each composition, that is, you define in which dimension the components are specified (such as weight, percent in weight, volume, and percent in volume). The reference value then controls which units are available for specifying the component proportions. You specify the reference values in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Specify Reference Values for the Composition..

You can specify the component type for each component. If you have defined a default component type for a specification, this is proposed automatically as the component type when you enter the specification as a component in the composition. You define component types under Specify Component Types for Compositions in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools. Under Specify Context-Specific Component Types, you define which component types you can use in compositions; if necessary you can restrict the usage of individual component types to specific value assignment types.

If you have assigned validity areas to the component types in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Specify Component Types for Compositions, when you edit compositions the system displays only those component types whose validity area corresponds to the validity area in the user-specific usage profile. For more information, see the IMG activity.

When you enter the concentration or quantity of individual components, you can make the following entries:

  • Average proportion

  • Accuracy lower limit (>, >=)

  • Lower limit

  • Accuracy upper limit (<, <=)

  • Upper limit

  • Unit

When you create a composition, the SAP system checks whether:

  • The lower limit is below the upper limit

  • The average value falls between the upper and lower limit

  • In the case of percentages, the total average value is <= 100%

If you activate the Total pushbutton, the total for the components in a row is displayed at the end of the table and in the title bar. If you have chosen dimension PROPOR (weight proportion or volume proportion) as the reference value, a message is also displayed in the title bar indicating the percentage by which the sum of components exceeds or falls short of 100%.

If the Total pushbutton is not activated, the total for the components is not displayed at the end of the table. The information is still displayed in the title bar.

Caution Caution

The system does not support the entry of negative percentages. It does not prevent you from entering negative values, however.

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The Value, Lower limit, and Upper limit fields are only taken into account, however, if an entry has been made.

Instead of a concentration, you can also specify an exception value. This allows you to enter a remark on components of a composition for which no details about the concentration or quantity are available. You define exception values under Specify Exception Values for a Component in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools. Under Specify Context-Specific Exception Values, you define which exception values you can use in compositions; if necessary you can restrict the usage of individual exception values to specific value assignment types.

Value Assignment Types of Value Assignment Category Listing

In these value assignment types, you enter the components without entering the component type and concentration or quantity.

Activities

  1. Follow the procedure Editing Value Assignments.

  2. Choose the Compositionor Spec. Listing tab page.

  3. If you want to edit the composition or specification listing of a value assignment instance other than the one displayed, select the required value assignment instance using one of the following methods:

    • Enter the sort sequence of the value assignment instance in the Sequence field above the tab page and confirm your entries.

    • On the Value Assignments tab page, select the value assignment instance and choose the Composition or Spec. Listing tab page again.

  4. Enter the required data and save your entries.

    Note Note

    If you have entered a sort sequence on the Composition or Spec. Listing tab page, the SAP system sorts the components when generating reports according to this sequence (see Report Creation: Process).

    You can copy and insert one or more rows within the specification listing. You can also insert data from other sources into the specification listing using the key combinations CTRL + C and CTRL + V.

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