Your company manufactures materials whose characteristics differ for each manufacturing process.

In SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, tracking materials with varying characteristics across manufacturing processes and logistics requires:

Batch management(D): Batch management (activated in material master, MM01, General Plant Data/Storage view, field: Batch Management) assigns unique batch numbers to materials (e.g., via MSC1N). It tracks characteristics (e.g., viscosity, color) via classification (CL02, linked in MSC2N), ensuring this information is available in all logistics areas—production (e.g., CO11N goods issue), inventory (MMBE), and sales (VA01 batch determination). This is ideal for materials like chemicals with process-specific traits.

Process order management(A) (COR1) executes production but relies on batch management for characteristic tracking—it’s not the tracking tool itself.Engineering change management(B) (CC01) manages design changes, not runtime characteristics.Quality management(C) (e.g., QA01) inspects batches but doesn’t track characteristics across logistics—batch management underpins it. This is per SAP’s batch management capabilities.