Follow-up/replacement material & is a generic material

What causes this issue?

Follow-up/replacement materials <ZH>cannot</> belong to the following
material categories:
Generic material
Merchandise category material
Hierarchy material
Group material
Merchandise category reference material
Standard material

System Response

If the follow-up/replacement material belongs to one of the above
material categories, the system does not create any
follow-up/replacement material relationships.

How to fix this error?

INCLUDE ISR_CHECK

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

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