Characteristic Value Conversion in Purchasing Documents 
You can define different characteristics, for example color, size, for a fashion article. Some characteristics of a fashion article can be measured using different standards, or scaled in different countries or geographical regions. For example, size is one of the characteristics and you can define different values to it. The same shoe can be size 9 in the United Kingdom and size 10 in the United States. Therefore, the shoe has both sizes marked on it. To facilitate this, a conversion mechanism is necessary to ensure that for every fashion article, sizes in all the relevant size standards are correctly marked. Characteristic value conversion only applies to variant creating characteristics that are attached to the article master.
Prerequisites
You have set the user parameter FSH_NO_SIZE_CONV = “” to carry out the characteristic value conversion process in the purchasing documents.
You have defined a conversion type in Customizing for Define Conversion Types under
Logistics – General 
SAP Fashion Management Characteristic Value Conversion 
.You have defined the conversion indicators and assigned the conversion types in Customizing for Control Conversion Type Determination under
Logistics – General SAP Fashion Management Characteristic Value Conversion .You have assigned the conversion type to the following:
Article in the article master (Basic data: Fashion tab in the transaction MM01)
Customer in the customer master (Sales data screen in the transaction XD01)
Vendor in the vendor master (Purchasing Data screen in the transaction XK01)
Features
The system converts the characteristic values in the purchasing documents based on the conversion defined for the article, the vendor, the customer, or the user parameter (FSH_SC_USR) setting. The system converts the characteristic value for the selected items in the document or for the entire document.
In the document based conversion type, the system converts the characteristic value for all the items in the document. The system considers the conversion IDs you define for the customer, the vendor, and the user parameter setting.
In the item based conversion type, the system converts the characteristic value for the selected items in the document only if the user parameter FSH_SC_NO_AUTO_CONV is set to X (Item-Based Conversion).
You must associate a conversion ID with the purchasing document. You use the Characteristic Value Conversion pushbutton to convert the characteristic values of the articles. The system carries out the characteristic value conversion in the following purchasing documents:
Only item based conversion | Item based and document based conversion |
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Inbound delivery | Purchase order |
Purchase requisition | Contracts |
Goods movement | Stock transfer order |
Stock overview |
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Invoice verification |
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The Item List tab or the Delivery Schedule tab can have more than one item. The variants of a generic article have a short text representing the variant characteristic values in a concatenated form. Depending on the item based conversion or the document based conversion, the system converts the characteristic values of the variants using the determined conversion ID. The conversion also happens in the variant matrix. The conversion is applicable only for the new variant matrix with the user parameter WMMB_MATRIX_ALV. After successful conversion, the system updates the short text with the conversion description.
Note
After conversion, the system does not display the description for generic articles and single articles. It only displays the description for the variants of an article. When you save the data after conversion, the system does not save the conversion description in the system database and it is only for display purpose.
Example
Article description: Tshirt
The following are the short descriptions for the variants of the article Tshirt:
Tshirt, Red, 34
Tshirt, Blue, 38
Tshirt, Green, 40
After successful conversion, the short description for the variants of the article Tshirt appears as follows, based on the conversion type:
Tshirt, Red, XS
Tshirt, Blue, S
Tshirt, Green, M