Approve a substitute material

Approve a substitute material to use the substitute material in different screens throughout AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management.

After you approve, you cannot update any information for the substitute material. To update a substitute material after approval, you can reopen the substitute material. For more information, see Reopen a substitute material.

1. Navigate to the s20023 Material Substitution and Deviation screen.

2. In the Material Substitution control block, from the Project dropdown, select the required project ID.

3. In the Material grid, select a row.

4. In the Position grid, select the Material Substitution tab.

5. In the Material Substitution grid, select a row.

6. On the s20023 menu, in the Workflow group, from the Workflow dropdown, select Approve.

   In the General tab, the Approval Status checkbox is selected and the Approved By field is updated for the selected substitute material.