material and item category relationship

[Former Member]

For a given material, how can I get item category and higher level item category.

I know mara stores item category group and t184 stores item category group and item category

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi,

U can get item catogory from VBAP table by passing VBELN in u r querry

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Cheers,

Chandra Sekhar.

[Former Member]

Think you are going wrong way.

Item Category and High Level Item Category are not assigned to Material, but they are assigned to Sales Document Type and Item Category Group. As you mentioned, you can get the details from table T184.

Table T184 gives the options on how the system has to react in various scenarios.

Combination of Sales Document Type in Sales Order, Item Category Group which is from Material Master and... result in the Item Category that is populated for the Item.

Regards

Eswar

[Former Member]

Actually I have to make this check even before creating sales order from bapi, so vbap etc are not filled.

[Former Member]

Can you explain in detail the validation you need to make before calling BAPI?

Maybe that can help for better advice(s).

Regards

Eswar