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Process documentationSpecifications in the Classification System Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

This process describes how you create specifications for a material and its batches.

Process Flow

  1. You define properties of the material and its batches and store them as characteristics in the classification system.
  2. You can define all those properties that you consider important and useful for batch determination as characteristics.

    Note

    If you create a numerical characteristic, you must enter a unit of measurement. If you do not enter the unit of measurement, you cannot link the characteristics to the master characteristics of the Quality Management component.

  3. You create classes for the material and the batches and assign the characteristics to the classes.

You can use the same class for different materials.

Class type

You must assign the class to a class type. There are two class types of the category Batch for batches and their materials:

  1. You create the material master record, assign the desired class to the material and assign characteristics to the material.
  1. Depending on the system settings, you create the batch master record manually, or you let the system carry this out automatically.

Assigning Actual Values to a Batch

Actual values can be assigned to batches in the following ways:

Note

For each movement type you can configure the system so that it branches automatically, or only on request to the classification system. See Customizing for Batch Management under Define batch creation for goods movements.

The characteristic values are contained under the Characteristics node (Logistics ® Central Functions ® Classification ® Master Data ® Characteristics). The material master record (Logistics ® Materials Management ® Material Master ® Material ® Display) contains the values that you have assigned to the material. To display the characteristic value assignment for a batch, go to the batch master record (Logistics ® Central Functions ® Batch Management ® Batch ® Display) or the object list (Logistics ® Central Functions ® Classification ® Environment ® Reporting ® Object List).

Result

Note

You can also use batch management for materials that are assigned a serial number profile.

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