Item category

[Former Member]

What is an Item Category?

What is its significance.

I would appreciate if some one can give me a practical example of it

Also help me in uderstanding these terms

Item category Usage?

Item category group?

Item category determination?

Please help

Thanks

Sonali

[Former Member]

Hi sonali,

Surf through below mention link to get idea of Item category:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/55fb13545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm

It behaves the same way in CRM and SD.

Best Regards,

Pratik Patel

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[Former Member]

Hi Sonali

Item category tells you how the item will behave in a transaction type. Mainly it tells you

-Is the business data at the item level diff from the header level

- Is pricing applicable ?

-Whether and how item is billed

-is it a real item or text item

- can have incompletion log on it

and then you assign further some functions like - partner determination ,text determination,Incomplteness.

Item determination basically lets you define for a particular transaction type - depending on the item category group - what item category will be assigned to the items.

Item category group - lets you combine material (products in material master) in common group , this will be used in item category determination.

Item category usage - is used bascially when you are dealing with configurable products. Depending on the usage - you can define whether pricing will be on the main parts or the exploded BOM of the configurable product.

I hope this helps you.

[Former Member]

Hi Sonali,

Here I try to lead some information regarding your questions.

Since you only ask about Item Category, I assume you have understanding on

Transaction Type.

Item category is where you define what kind of attributes will be used on your item

level document (While Transaction type is where you define the behaviour and

attributes for your header level document).

Basic usage of item category will be like :

- Item object type = where you define on which business object this item cat will

be used (Sales, Complaint, etc..)

- Profiles attributes, for example you define which Text Determination will be used

for this particular item category. By defining this, later in item level you can find

in Text Tab the list of Text you can enter for this item product.

- You define also the behaviour of your product will be entered on document later.

For example if you use Product Configuration and you need to use variant

matching. You need to define it in item category.

Without defining item category, the CRM system wouldn't know what kind of

behaviour and attributes need to be used on particular product you entered on

document.

Item Cat Group, what you define here will be checked againts item category set in

your Product master (check product master and you can find

item category group as well here). This is how the system identify

which item category will be used againts the item category

determination set.

Item Cat Usage, here you define the variance usage of your item category. And

later different kind of item category variance scenario can be

used.

For example, scenario 1 is item category the usage of sales.

scenario 2 is item category for the usage of credit memo.

Item Cat Determination, is where you define on how the system will check and

determine which item category will be used againts :

1. Transaction Type used in document

2. Product Item category group

3. The usage, if you define more than one item usage for same

transaction type, you can switch/choose manually depends

on the scenario of your document (ex. sales or credit memo or

return product).

Hope this information can help.

Gun.

[Former Member]

hi sonali,

An individual item category is required for the master agreement. SAP delivers the item category ISUM (item category utilities) as standard. This category contains its own condition group for pricing. The condition group specifies which condition type that can be used with which condition table for price agreement in a document. You must enter a condition group for the master agreement, as this is the only way that price agreements can be set in documents.

Set the Master Agreement (OC) indicator for item categories that are to be used with a master agreement. To do this, go to the Customizing menu for Customer Relationship Management and select Industry-Specific Solutions ->Utilities Industry-> Transactions -> Settings for Utilities Transactions ->Define Settings for Item Categories.

best regards

indah puspita