Material Class as COPA Characteristcs

Dear All,
Can anybody guide me on how to create material class characteristics as COPA characteristcis so that the same can be updated in COPA. The same are not available in the tables which are available for creation of COPA characteristics.
Best Regards
Manu

Hi Santosh,
I have already done this. In fact, I am facing problems with the derivation rules. I have tried using table lookup option in the derivation rule but the source fields like Internal characteristic, Characteristic value counter, Indicator: Object/Class,Class Type, Internal counter for archiving objects via engin. chg. mgmt are also required to be created as CO-PA characteristics and derivation of the same is again creating a problem.I have used Table AUSP for the same.
can u guide me further on this issue.
Best Regards
Manu

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