Understanding Material Determination

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Assigning Procedures to Sales Document Types:

In this step, we would assign the above procedure to Sales Order document type.

Go to Transaction OV14 or go to Transaction SPRO -> Reference IMG -> Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Material Determination -> Assign Procedures to Sales Document Types (As shown in the screenshot below)

Scroll down the list for the order “OR” (Standard Order) 

Now to maintain the substitution reasons:

Go to Transaction OVRQ.

In this screen, you can maintain the substitution reasons. 

Maintaining Materials for substitution:

Go to Transaction VB11 or follow the navigation shown in the screenshot below:

Enter the condition type in the above screen and click on Enter. 

Maintain the substitution material information and click on Save. 

Testing 

To test the condition records, let us go to transaction VA01 or VA02: 

In the above screenshot, we have entered the material T-F299. Now press ENTER.  

In the above screenshot, you can observe that the material is automatically converted from T-F299 to T-F499.