This item category is for components which contain information stored as documents. A document can be a design drawing, program, photograph and so on. When you use this item category, the bill of material (BOM) is connected to the document management system.
The schedule line category controls whether schedule lines in delivery schedules are relevant for planning and/or delivery. The system determines this category on the basis of the planning indicator in the forecast delivery schedule, then in the just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedule.
Item to category analogies are comparisons that show an item and the category it belongs to. For example: golden retriever : dog. ladybug : insect.
The item category determines whether the material defined in a purchase order item: Requires a material number. Requires an account assignment. Is to be managed as a stock item. Requires a goods receipt (GR) and/or an invoice receipt (IR)
Schedule Line catagory is automatically determined in an sales order (but may be changed manually if set up) based on the following: Schedule Line category = Item category + MRP Type of material. The key fields here are: Movement Type (601): This is the movement type that will take place when a Goods Issue is done.
This item category is used for components that are cut to size. If you assign a material with this item category to an activity , you must also enter data for the item. The system then calculates the necessary variable-size item quantity. Otherwise processing is as for item category L.
In SAP, Blanket Purchase Orders refer to the business process where you have a Purchase Order with a validity period (start / end date) and a limit on the item. No Goods Receipt takes place. Payment is triggered by Invoice. Multiple invoices can be processed.
Standard SAP Movement Types
| Movement Type | Description | Accounting Effect |
|---|
| 101 | GR goods receipt | S |
| 102 | Reversal of GR | H |
| 122 | RE return to vendor | H |
| 123 | RE rtrn vendor rev. | S |
An item category is used to define if an item is suitable for billing or pricing. It defines the additional control functions for a sales document. Example − A standard item function is totally different from the function of a free of charge item or a text item.
This indicator is part of the link between the material master and the sales document. When you create a sales document item for this material, the combination of the item category group and the sales document type determine the item category. You can find this field on the Sales: Sales Org Data 2.
Service description along with its unit of measure is stored as master data in a record that is known as the service master record. The system stores the services that have been procured as a record in a sheet that is called as the service entry sheet. Service procurement can be of the following two types−
The general item category group is used in the material master whereas the item category group is used in the sales document. i.e., the general item category group is based on the material type and is used in MM and the item category group is used for determining the item category as told by Lakshmipathi.
The item category in the sales document depends on the sales document type and the material.
Item Category Determination.
| Item Categories | Description |
|---|
| TATX | Text Item |
| TANN | Free Of Charge |
| AFX | Inquiry Item |
| AGX | Quotation Item |
Go to VOV4, select the combination of your sale order type and Item Category Group say NORM. There maintain the item category what you want to maintain manually under the tab "MItCa". Now go to sale order and try to change - you can change.
You can post an inventory difference, whereby a material document and an accounting document are created in the background. D. You can post the inventory difference, whereby only an accounting document is created in the background.
Route is determined automatically in the sales order based on: Departure zone or country of the Delivering Plant. Destination zone or country of the Ship-to Party. Shipping condition from the Sold-to Party Customer master.
Shipping terms and conditions from the customer master record (shipping screen). E.g Company agreed with customer to deliver product as soon as possible. Loading group from the material master (Sales/Plant data screen). A shipping point can be assigned to delivering plant and plant can have multiple shipping point).
For example, we will choose item category group in material master data, so we can use sales order type and item category group to determine a item category but when using item usage, if it is not assigned to anywhere.
Item category is critical and esstential part of sales order and sales process. It generally controls the behaviour of item in a sales order, like, pricing, TOR, etc.
Text item are those for which you are not maintaining any inventory (Its dummy material) the item category for this is TATX for the query which you have raised you can create a SD BOM and attach the manual as a component. The item category of the manual should be TATX.
Assign Item Categories in SAP
- Step 1 : – Enter Tcode VOV4 in the SAP command field and enter.
- Step 2 : – On change view item category assignment overview screen, click on new entries button and assign the item category with the combination of SaTy (sales document types), itCGr (item category group), Usg.
Items with schedule lines are only copied to the SAP system. These schedule lines contain important information like delivery dates and quantity, available inventory, etc. You can define different schedule line categories as per the sales document type and item category.
As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP SD-SLS (Sales in SD) component which is coming under SD module (Sales & Distribution). TVVW is a SAP standard transparent table used for storing Item Usage related data in SAP. It comes under the package VA0C.
Item category group is the base for the item category behaviour in the sales document and it is maintained in sales org-2 view in material master record.
Product Hierarchy is alphanumeric character string for grouping together materials by combining different characteristics. It is used for analyses and price determination. Use. In the standard SAP R/3 System, the product hierarchy can have up to 3 levels, each with a specific number of characters.
higher level item category is the item category of the high level item. It controls the item category of the item along with sales document type ,item category group, usage. basically higher level item makes the functionality of how the item should behave along with material type.
Account assignment category: - A key indicating whether an item is to be assigned to an auxiliary account (such as a cost center). The account assignment category determines which account assignment details are required for the item (for example, cost center or account number).
In SAP Business One click: Administration > Setup > Inventory > Item Groups. Use this window to create item groups that are used to classify items into groups that describe the nature of an item. When you create an item group you can specify the parent item group.
