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Use

You can establish object links between specifications and materials in the SAP component Material Master. This allows you to create a link to other logistics processes. For example, you can assign a raw material to a basic material.

The material contains logistics data, such as price, weight, and dimensions. This data depends on an article’s packaging size or trading units.

The specification supplies the data on the properties. This data is independent of a article’s packaging size or trading units.

If the material carries the environmentally relevant indicator and a delivery is posted to this material, the SAP System checks whether the material is assigned to a specification that requires a material safety data sheet, and then, if necessary, triggers Structure linkmaterial safety data sheet shipping.

The following graphic illustrates the possible relationships between materials and specifications.

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Prerequisites

Features

You have the following options for the assignment:

After you have assigned a material and plant, the SAP System checks whether

The combination of material and plant must be a valid plant material.

The combination may only be assigned once to one specification only. You must enter the material either always without a plant, or always with a plant.

Note

If you do not enter a plant for a material, the assignment is valid for all plants in which the material occurs.

For more information, see the application help for the SAP component Material Master (LO-MD-MM).

In the standard system, the material short text for assigned materials is output in the SAP Product Safety component on the Material assignments tab page. In Customizing for Product Safety the SAP enhancement C1060001 is available for you to use in the IMG activity Develop Enhancement for Material Names. You can use this enhancement to output other material descriptions in addition to the material short text (for example, descriptions from the material classification).

Activities

You assign a specification to a material in specification management.

For specifications of the specification category Substance, you can also make the assignment in the Material master. The Material master has been enhanced without modifications for this purpose by adding the necessary data screen. For more information, see Assignment of Materials and Substances.

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