Substitution / alternate materials in a purchase order

Hi
We have a requirement:
We have in our business substitute or alternate materials for some materials. That is Material X can be used in place of Y and so on. There are atleast 3000 such materials.
What we need is a way to prompt the users while creating PRs or Purchase orders that this substitution / alternate material exists when he tries to create a PR for the material X.
So when the user enters material X in the PR or PO ; the system should prompt the user preferably with a POP UP saying that there is an alternative or alternatives (sometimes there could be even Z which is the 2nd alternative) and which are in stock.So the user can decide whether or not to proceed. An informed deciion can be made at that time.
Regards
Sateesh

Please check this answered link:
how to check for a substitute material of a "real" material?
Material Determination
Re: material substitution!
Edited by: Afshad Irani on May 31, 2010 9:41 AM

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