Duplication of material master by description

Hello All,
I have one requirement. System should not allow me to create the material with the same description twice.
e.g. I have created a material AB01 Desc- Crankshaft. Now when I'm trying to create AB02 Desc- Crankshaft, system should restrict me. How to achieve this? Is there any enhancement or exit?
Thanks in advance,
Piyush

Hi Piyush,
As per standard SAP system, description does not matter. System only recognize/understand generated code. So it is not possible to stop it just description is matching.If you want to create the same then make some changes in its description.
Hope this will resolve your issue.
T & R,
Brijesh

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    >
    > We have a large number of variations under these categories which is forcing us to create a new material master where tere is slight deviation .
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    >
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    >
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    >
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