Material short text difference

Hi Gurus,
my client has created a Po having 2 line items with the same material no. (packing material)
the short text of the material is differ for the one line item.the confusion is how it will happens coz.. the material code is same for the both line items.it should be the same.
I checked in the item changes of the Po.. but no data is appearing regarding the short text changes
please help me how to find out the route cause of the issue..
regards
subbu

Hi,
It is possible to change the Material Description while creating PO (ME21N), which will not get recorded as changes for that document. User might have changed during PO creation (in ME21N).
Or check whether 2nd line item has been added later in PO, in change mode and check Material master changes in MM04. It might also happen that before adding 2nd line item in PO, somebody would have chnaged material description in MM02.

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IF ekpo-ematn IS INITIAL.                               "371796
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   CASE sy-subrc.                                      "371796
     WHEN 1.                                           "371796
       MESSAGE w474 INTO gl_dummy.                     "371796
       mmpur_message 'W' '06' '474' '' '' '' ''.       "371796
     WHEN 2.                                           "371796
       MESSAGE e474. "specify the short description of the item
    WHEN 3.         "<   message not customized        "371796
       MESSAGE e474.                                   "371796
ENDCASE.                                             "371796
ENDIF.
ENDIF.                                                   "371796
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Note 371796 - Msg 06474: Please specify short text more precisely
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ME21, ME22, material description
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