This segment contains the characteristic values for a configurable material. The materials are identified by their instance numbers.

The PC in order item 10 is to include 2 diskette drives: one 3.5" drive and one 5.25" drive. For this reason, the value ‘2’ was assigned to characteristic DISKETTE_DRIVE_NUMBER. Characteristic DISKETTE_DRIVE_TYPE has the value ‘3.5’ for the first diskette drive and ‘5.25’ for the second diskette drive.

The documentation for the PC is to be supplied in English. For this reason, characteristic DOC_LANGUAGE has the value ‘English’ for material DOC_PACKAGE.

The PC in order item 20 is only to have one (5.25") diskette drive. The documentation is to be supplied in German. For this reason, the value ‘1’ was assigned to characteristic DISKETTE_DRIVE_NUMBER. Characteristic DISKETTE_DRIVE_TYPE has the value ‘5.25’ for material DISKETTE_DRIVE. Characteristic DOC_LANGUAGE has the value ‘German’ for material DOC_PACKAGE.