What is Item Category?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anyone please tell me what is meant by Item Category for a Product?

Kindly reply as fast as possible.

Regards,

Vijay

[Former Member]

Here is the information on sales order item categories:

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

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/92/58bfc6417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/ea/e9b1fd4c7211d189520000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

Regards.

[former_member204513]

Hi Vijay,

Itemcategory controls the beheviour of the product at sales order level weather that product having price or is ti relevent for delivery or is it relevent for billing.

Itemcategory controls the fallowing

1.Partner

2.Output

3.Incompleation of the document.

4.Pricing.

Itemcategories will determined at sales order based on these combinations

1. Itemcategory group+Sales document type= Itemcategory

2. Itemcategory groupSales document typeUsage= Itemcategory

3.Itemcategory groupSales document typeUsage+Higherlevelitemcategory= Itemcategory

Regards,

Murali.

[Former Member]

Item category:

Item categories are defined so that you have more control over individual materials in the deliveries. The item category is copied from an order item. A standard item in a standard order then becomes a standard item in the delivery. If a delivery is entered without reference to an order, the system proposes the item category depending on the delivery type and the item category group of the material.

VOV7 is the Tcode for creating new item categories and VOV5 is the tcode for item category

Item category usage helps in defining whether the material is used as the text item,batch split or as a service item.

You can specify the item category usage while defining the item category for a particular sales document type.

Reward points if it helps

[former_member204513]

Hi Vijay,

Itemcategories means,

Item categories are defined to provide additional control functions for the sales documents and thus meet the demands resulting from different business transactions. A separate control is defined for each of these item categories. For example, the functions of a standard item are completely different from those of a free-of-charge item or a text item.

Examples

TAN for Standard Itemcategory

TANN for Free of charge Itemcategory

TXN for Text product Itemcategory.

TAS for Third party Itemcategory.

I hope it will help you,

Regards,

Murali.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Item categories are defined to provide additional control functions for the sales documents and thus meet the demands resulting from different business transactions.

Item category controls whether the item is relevent for pricing, delivery, billing ... etc...

Prase

[Former Member]

it controls how the item has to be behave when processing it in sales order,for diffrent orders different item categories has to be configured in vov7 tcode

[Former Member]

hi friend

Item categary tells that how the item behaves wheather this item is having price or not, what type of item it is i.e sercice or stranded. overall item catagery tells the behaviour of the particular item how it behaves in the sales order

regards

nitchel