Classifying Customer-Material Info Records

Use

This function lets you classify a material in the customer-material info record and use it to define a material variant at customer/material level.

The characteristic value assignments that you enter using this function can be passed on to sales document items by the system.

Integration

You can pass on the characteristic value assignments from the customer-material info record to all sales documents.

Prerequisites

The material for which you want to create a customer-material info record must be configurable.

The class and characteristics you want to use for classification of the customer material info record must be permitted for class type 052 Material-customer info record .

If you want the system to transfer the characteristic value assignments from the customer-material info record to the configuration of a sales document item, you must allow this in Customizing of Sales at Start of the navigation path Sales Documents Next navigation step Fast Data Entry of Characteristics in Sales Documents Adopt Characteristic Values from the Customer Material Info Record End of the navigation path .

When you work with global/local groups in sales documents, you can also use this IMG activity to determine whether the characteristic value assignments of the global itemor of the customer-material info record take precedence when you create a local item.

If you do not work with global/local groups, the system makes no distinction between the two alternatives; the system always passes on the characteristic value assignments of the purchasing info record.

Features

You can classify a material in the customer-material info record at customer/material level. When you create a sales document item for the material, the characteristic values in the customer-material info record can be adopted and, if necessary, changed.

Note Note

The system adopts only those characteristics that are also included in the class of the configurable material (class type 300 Variants ).

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Caution Caution

If you change the customer in the sales document after the system has adopted the characteristic values from the customer-material info record, the system does not adopt the characteristic value assignments from the customer-material info record of the new customer.

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Activities

You classify the customer-material info record using the Classify pushbutton.