Header Item Vs Line Item

[Former Member]

What is the difference between Header Item and Line Item.Plz explain with example.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Header details are different than line item details.

Example when you purchase some thing from shop, he will give you the bill.

Header details will have the bill number, your card details,...

Item Details are the items which you purchased.

Hope you understand now....

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Satish

[Former Member]

Plz give me an example related to ABAP

[Former Member]

Hi

IN SAP most of the application documents are classified with header and Item details

Header record is a single record for one document with the main transactio details and the item records are multiple with the details of the goods sold/supllied

If you take an example of sales order

SOld to party, Ship to party, Po No, Total net value, currency are single record for header

where as the item details are like the different materials with qty's , units etc

technically VBAK Table is SO header record and VBAP is So item records

similarly for PO

EKKO will have single header record and EKPO will have multiple item records

Regards

Anji

[Former Member]

Hi

Header Means the Header details which are common to all the items such as Sold to, Shipto party , Ref Po No date and Total value and currency etc for a sales order.

Item data means all the materials(product) related data with material, description,qty, unit, Plant, st locn etc. there may be multiple items for a single header.

Schedules lines means on what dates we are going to deliver the items.

so for example for a Item qty is 20, so we can delivery it in 3 times on 3 different dates. so these 3 dates are mentioned as 3 different lines.

I will try to explain in the Sales Scenario.

Say, u have created a Sales Order. S.O. is the document in which you specify what all things are sold by you to the customer.

Then Every S.O will have a unique number.

A S.O. can have multiple items sold in it. Every Item in a Sales Order corresponds to a Line-Item. Now, there will be some characteristics which will be associated with a Order as a whole like S.O. Type, Creation Date, created by etc. These details are called Header details.

Now, a Sales Order needs to be delivered to the customer. That delivery can be scheduled. Say, 50% of Part A is to be sent today and rest is to be sent tomorrow. So, this is the schedule line for that Sales Order Item.

Hierarchy goes like this :

S.O. --> Multiple Line Items --> Each Line Item can have multiple schedule lines.

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