Industry and Retail: New Checks for the Use of Reference Materials

Description

For reference materials such as pricing reference materials, follow-up materials, and configurable materials, the system carries out the following checks in the material master:

• Checks whether a material is still used as a reference material before deleting it

• Checks that no reference material is already assigned to a material that you want to use as a reference material (to prevent recursive definitions)

Change system parameters in customizing

In Customizing for the Material Master, you can decide not to use certain materials as reference materials. You do this in the Implementation Guide (IMG) activity Make global settings . This has the following effects:

• The corresponding fields are hidden online.

• The checks are deactivated.

If the reference material has already been used in the system, the use of it cannot be deactivated in this way.