The following example shows which characteristics you can use to classify the material Epoxy resin. It also demonstrates which characteristics you can use to select and sort batches of this material.

You use the following user-defined characteristics to specify the material and the batches:

• Refraction index
• Viscosity
• Color value
• Hydrolizable chloric content
• Epoxy count
• Volatile proportion

As you want to make your selection according to deletion flag, expiration date or remaining shelf life and status, you must also include the following standard characteristics in classification.

• LOBM_LVORM
• LOBM_ZUSTD
• LOBM_VFDAT

You enter further standard characteristics that you require for the calculation of the expiration date or the remaining shelf life in the selection - see below.

The customer will only accept batches with a particular viscosity and epoxy count. You therefore do not need all the characteristics in the specification. You only require

• Viscosity
• Epoxy count

For selection according to deletion flag and status, you require the following standard characteristics:

• LOBM_LVORM
• LOBM_ZUSTD

For selection according to expiration date or remaining shelf life, you require the following standard characteristics for calculation:

• LOBM_VFDAT
• LOBM_RLZ
• LOBM_LFDAT

From the batches found, you first want to use the batches that were first placed into stock and thus have the nearest expiration date. At the same time, these batches are to have a high color value and, if possible, are to be used for the delivery without batch split. You therefore sort in the following order

• LOBM_VFDAT - ascending
• Color value - descending
• LOBM_MENGE - descending

If the system finds several batches with the same expiration date and the same color value, they are also sorted additionally using the quanity.