1. CROSS APPLICATION:
CLASSIFICATON IN SAP R/3

2. Target Group Audience: Duration: 1 HOUR Production planing department
Process owners
Duration: 1 HOUR

3. CONTENTS The Classification System
Overview of classification system in R/3
CLASSIFICATION- characteristics
PROPERTIES OF CHARACTERISITICS
Classes
Class types
Object Dependencies
Using Object Dependencies

4. The Classification System
The classification system allows us to use characteristics to describe R/3 objects, and to group similar objects in classes – to classify objects.
A class is a group of similar entities.
Classes helps us to find objects more easily, using the characteristics defined in them as search criteria. This ensures that one can find objects with similar or identical characteristics as quickly as possible.
The classification system allows us to classify all types of objects.

5. Overview of classification system in R/3
Defining the properties of objects using characteristics
Creating classes and assign characteristics to them.
Classifying objects i.e assign objects to class.
Finding objects using the characteristics as search criteria.,by assigning values to the characteristics, and the system compares the values entered with the values of the classified objects.

6. CLASSIFICATION- characteristics
Characteristics describe the properties of objects. values of a characteristic to specify these properties.
Characteristic SHAPE has the values ’CIRCLE', ’SQUARE', and ’RECTANGLE'. When you classify an object, you use this characteristic to specify the color of the object.
characteristics are created centrally, then assigned to classes. When objects are allocated to a class, values are assigned to the characteristics.
Characteristics serve different purposes in different applications
To describe how characteristics and characteristic values in classification influence each other, dependencies can used /allocated to them.

7. PROPERTIES OF CHARACTERISITICS
Format
For example, numeric format is for figures, and character format is for alphanumeric characters.
Unit of measure for numeric values
Templates for entering values
Required entry for characteristic
Whether intervals are allowed as values
Language-dependent descriptions and texts for characteristics and
characteristic values
Display options for characteristics on the value assignment screen
Allowed values
Default values that are set automatically on the value assignment screen

8. Classes
Classes groups objects together according to certain principles.
classes are created for specific object types, such as materials, work centers, or equipments.
Characteristics are assigned to class. Characteristics describe the objects that are classified in class.

9. Class types
The class type is a central concept in the classification system, that determines specific object type, such as materials.
Classes of this class type are then used to classify objects of this object type.
When you first create a class, you must enter a class type for the class.
There is no link between the different class types.
In one class type, you can only assign one value or set of values to any one characteristic for a specific object. However, in other class types you can assign different values to the same characteristic for the same object.

10. Object Dependencies
Dependencies are used in classification and variant configuration to describe the relationships between characteristics and characteristic values. You can use object dependencies to:
Exclude a characteristic or characteristic value from the value assignment process
Determine that a value must be assigned to a characteristic
Set a value for a characteristic
Dependencies are created for characteristics and characteristic values.They are created On the basic data screen of a characteristic.

11. Using Object Dependencies
In the classification system, Object dependencies can help us to monitor the values assigned and ensure their consistency.
Object dependencies can be used in classification and in variant configuration. In variant configuration, they are used to make it easier to create an order for a complex product with a large number of variants.
The object dependencies allocated to characteristics or characteristic values apply in both classification and variant configuration functions.