Functionality
Determines the value-only material on which the material passed on atimport is managed. Also determines those materials managed on an exactmaterial basis in spite of value-only inventory management. Returns thematerial numbers. An indicator is also returned indicating whether thestock-keeping material is a value-only material.

Example
All materials in the fruit material group are managed on the "fruit"value-only material. If a goods movement is posted in plant "XYZ" formaterial "banana", the function module is called as follows:
CALL FUNCTION 'VALUE_ARTICLE_FIND'
EXPORTING
I_MATNR = "BANANA"
I_WERKS = "XYZ"
IMPORTING
E_MATNR = NEW_ARTICLE
E_WAART = Flag
If value-only inventory management is allowed in this plant, the"fruit" material is contained in NEW_ARTICLE after the function moduleis called. The E_WAART indicator is set.

Notes
If an exception occurs which is not intercepted by the calling program,an error message is issued.