Introduction:
An internal characteristic is something pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a particular
Material. Characteristics allow to attach attributes to a material, routing, a work center, a batch or an order. It becomes a
legal requirement sometimes to fetch values of these internal characteristics. This document explains how to fetch the
internal characteristic values and gives an insight into some flaws that occur during these kinds of developments.
Internal characteristics:
Internal characteristics are defined inside a class. Classes are created in the transaction CL01 based on a class type. These
classes are then attached to the materials in material master. A list of these class types can be seen in the table TCLA.
Brief overview: Characteristic must be assigned to a class in order to use them in any SAP application. The usage of the
characteristics is defined by the class type, though the same characteristic can be assigned to different classes of different
class types. The interdependency can be explained by the following diagram.
Example:
Class type description Type
- Material Class 001
- Batch 023
- Material (Configurable Objects) 200
- Variants 300
---If you have an interval, then you need to look at field ATFLV and ATFLB instead of ATWRT
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Unlike the other characteristics, the interval values wont be updated in the characteristic value field
(ATWRT). The interval values will be updated in the AUSP table in the fields ASUP - ATFLV (Value From)
and AUSP - ATFLB (Value to). For example,
Here, ASUP - ATFLV = 5.00E+02 means value is 5 x 10^2 = 500
ASUP - ATFLB = 1.00E+03 means value is 1 x 10^3 = 1000
Refer the KBA: 1568641 - How are the values for the different Characteristic Data Types saved in the
table AUSP ? for more details.