Specifications in the Classification System
Purpose
This process describes how you create specifications for a material and its batches.
Process Flow
You can define all those properties that you consider important and useful for
batch determination as characteristics.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.
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:
Assigning Actual Values to a Batch
Actual values can be assigned to batches in the following ways:
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
You can also use batch management for materials that are assigned a serial number profile.