Regarding Class and Characteristics

Can any body give  a clear picture on  Class and Characteristics
i have seen this in batch and alos in variant it is common concept in SAP  please tell the concept behind this
Thanks in Advance
Rajesh
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Hi,
when you want to assign different characteristics for a material we use the this concept.
for example in pharma industry when we maintain batch wih characteristics like date of manufacture, though the material is same still we differentiate them it on the basis of batch thus ensuring a FIFO method.
Similarly in Variant against the same materail the customer has a choice to selection the type of product he wants.
so all such characteristics(options) are assigned to a class and then to a material.
regards
sadhu kishore

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