Assignment of Materials and Substances
Use
You can assign substances, that is, specifications of the specification category Substance, and materials to each other both in
specification management
and in the
material master
. In this case, the assignments you make in
specification management
are also visible in the
material master
and vice versa.
Depending on the application from which you call the function, the perspective changes and so, therefore, does the function description:
When you call it from
specification management
, it is referred to as material assignmentWhen you call it from the
material master
, it is referred to as specification assignment
Prerequisites
See Assignment of Specifications and Materials .
For assignment in the
material master
, the required settings must have been made in Customizing for the
material master
. For more information, see
Set Up Specification Assignment in Material Master
in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for
Basic Data and Tools
.
Features
Materials that have assignments to a substance cannot be archived and deleted (physical deletion). A material can only be physically deleted in the following cases:
All specification assignments were deleted.
The assigned specifications were deleted.
No specification assignments exist.
In each substance-material assignment, you can navigate to the assigned substance or the assigned material by double-clicking:
You can navigate from the material assignment to the material master for the assigned material.
You can navigate from the specification assignment to the specification workbench with the assigned substance.