Copy control-Item category proposal and same sold to party

[Former Member]

Hi All,

1 ) In copy control between sales doc to sales doc, at item level, there is a field called, "item category proposal ". What is the relvance of this field ?

What id we keep the, "item cat proposal " field blank and what is we give some item category in it ?

2) In copy requirement between Sales doc to sales doc, at header level, there is a standard copying requirment 0001( header-same customer)/. What routine 0001 is supposed to do.

As per me, if sold to party is A in source doc type IN and we are copying this IN to OR sales document type , then always sold to party A in IN will always gets copied as A to OR doc type. So sold to party will always be same in target  sales doc type. So i need to know what actually 0001 header copy routine is trying to do ?

regards

Pamela

[Former Member]

Hi Pamela,

To answer your question on 0001 routine:

While you do a "Create with Reference" while creating a Sales Order from Inquiry you need to give the "Sold To Party" as input paramter. Now this Routine would do the check of matching between the partners.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi Raj,

No we do not have to give sold to party.

for eg when we go to VA01 to create SO with ref to quot, and click on create with ref to, then we need to give quoation number  and then press the copy buttom

then we will come to create sales order screem with the sold/ship to copied from quot !. So sold to party is same as sold to in quotaion ? where is the question of some other sold to party getting copied from quot to SO ?

regards

Pamela

[Former Member]

Hi Pamela,

If you use copy requirement 001, customer should be same, otherwise you will get error message:

If you want to different customer, you have to use copy requirement 002 with only with warning message.

BR

Jian

[moazzam_ali]

Hi

When we create sale order w.r.t some quotation or contract then sold to party is always in grey mode and I hope this is standard function which we cant not change without customization. Whether you assign 001 or 002 or delete this copying requirement system will make the sold to party in grey in subsequent document. There are controls in partner determination procedure as well to make sold to party unique and not changable once entered please check there too.

Dont get confuse with the name of routine 001 but see its coding in which you can clearly understand that it checks many other fields as well like rejection status, sales organization and currency and target reference etc.

Thank$

[moazzam_ali]

HI Pamela

Have you gone through the F1 help of both fields. I have just read the F1 help and they are self explanatory.

If you have any doubt then let us know.

Thank$

[Former Member]

Hi Moazzam,

No i could not understand. In F1 help, it is written that in the "item cat propsal field", one can enter any item category and it is not required to do the item category determination . But this is not the case. iam enterign a new item category  in item cat proposal field but with doing the item cat determiantion. But the system is not taking the new item cat in target document ?

regards

Pamela

[former_member184065]

Dear,

What Item categories ,did you maintained in VTAA?

How ,you are processing ?

Thanks,

Naren

[moazzam_ali]

Hi Pamela

I have checked this and this is working fine. Please check again with following steps.

Suppose if you are creating an order w.r.t inquiry and for inquiry the item category is AFN and for order it is TAN as per item ategory assignments.

In copy control from IN to ZDTS (My sale order type and you have to use your own) go to item category AFN and maintain TANN in purposal field.

In item category assignment go to ZDTS and check the assignment with ZDTS sale order type NORM item category grp and item category TAN. There you need to maintain TANN as Manual item category.

Now if you will create ZDTS order without reference system will determine TAN and if you will creatye w.r.t IN then system will determin TANN but you can change it to TAN.

Inshort you have to maintain item category in manual item to work with this field. Please test and update here.

Thank$

[former_member184065]

Dear,

Both are having very good explanations with SAP standard F1 help .whoever can easily understand when they read F1 help.They have provided with examples .

Thanks,

Naren

[Former Member]

Hi,

I mean to say what is the point in putting an item cagtegory in 'item cat proposal field", when one can do an item category determination from the item category determination table (sales doc type +usage+high level cat+item cat group ) ?

secondly it is not cleat what is "header same customer means " in  header copying requiremtns. the sold to party  from the source document will always be copied to target docment. so what is the point in checking for sold to in target document through the standard  header copying routine 0001

regards

Pamela

[former_member184065]

Dear,

Item category determination is depends upon VOV4 settings only to get into VA01 .Just try one scenario as maintain VOV4 settings as OR with TAN and maintain Copying control with differently in VTAA  then findout what will be happened .Actuall,it should get VOV4 settings only .But coming to the point is If you maintain settings like OR with TAN and TANN  ( default item category then ,If you maintain thsi TANN in VTAA then system will take the TANN only not TAN ). Just it and let me know .

Secondly is ,VA41 ,you maintained 0001 customer then you are creating this VA01 with VA41 ,now here system assume you as thses both VA41 and VA01 should have to same customer .

Test as maintain different customer in VA01 and let me know the result means maintain that routine in VTAA and create VA41 with 0001 and try sales order with different customer then let me know the result .

Thanks,

Naren