Material Listing and Exclusion 

Purpose

Material listing and exclusion lets you control which materials specific customers may or may not buy. For example, if you create a material listing for a specific customer, the customer can only order products from that list. You can also create a master record for material exclusion for a particular customer. Then the customer can not order excluded materials from you.

The following figure shows the functionality of material determination.

Partner Functions in Material Listing

Material listing applies to two partner functions in Sales & Distribution: the sold-to party and the payer.

In the standard version of the SAP System, when the sold-to party and payer are different, the material listing check is as follows:

·        If the sold-to party has a material listing, the system only checks this listing (no other check takes place).

The material listing for a sold-to party can include materials that do not appear in the material listing for the payer (for example, in the case of materials that are rarely ordered or only in exceptional cases)

·        If there is no listing for the sold-to party, but a listing has been created for the payer, the system automatically checks the payer’s listing.

·        If no material listing data exists for either the sold-to party or payer, then the customer may order any material.

 

Customizing

You make the settings for this in Customizing for SD Basic Functions.