Technical Name of Business Function |
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Type of Business Function | Enterprise Business Function |
Available From | SAP ERP 6 Enhancement Package 7 SPS07 |
Technical Usage | Retail |
Application Component |
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Required Business Function | Not relevant |
This business function enables you to maintain characteristic values in the article master using the new mechanism for storing values. The system displays these stored characteristic values in different documents and transactions for information purposes.
Display of characteristic values in documents is available in the following logistics processes:
Sales and Distribution
Sales
Customer Inquiry/Quotation
Sales Order
Customer Contracts
Billing
Customer Invoice
Shipping
Outbound Delivery
Materials Management
Purchasing
Purchase Order/Stock Transport Order
Vendor Confirmations (Only Inbound Delivery)
Inventory Management
Goods Issue
Retail Stock Overview
Revaluate Batches
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component | Component | Required for the Following Features Only |
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Software Component Softwarekomponente |
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You can create characteristics using transaction CT04
. You have to assign a corresponding characteristic type for the characteristics in transaction WRFCHVALTYPE
. This allows you to use the new value storage mechanism.
In the article master (MARA
table), exactly one field exists for each characteristic type. As the characteristic values are available in the article master, the short description of the characteristic value is displayed in documents such as purchase order, sales order, and so on. In addition, these characteristic values help is searching for documents. For example, you can search for all purchase orders that have the characteristic value as Red.
When you create a generic article, the short description of the variant indicates the characteristic values from which the variant was created. The description of a variant is the concatenation of characteristic values according to the sequence in which you define the characteristic values in the characteristic profile.
When you enter a generic article in the application documents such as purchase order or sales order, the system displays a variant matrix and prompts you to enter quantities for the variants of the generic article. The system displays the characteristic values for each of the variants and the quantities assigned to them in the Item Overview
screen. You can only view a maximum of three characteristics for the variants of the generic article.