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Item Category for materials

Former Member
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How does the system determine the item category in the sales order, is it possible that item categories for the same material will be diffrent for 2 plants. If so, where do I maintain the item category that 1 specific matetial bevave the same why in all plants.

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Former Member
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Hi

Item category is determined by Sales order type + item category group + Usage + high level item category.

SPRO>SD>Sales>sales document>sales item level-->assign item category.

What you can do is, maintain 2 item category, one as default and other as Manual item category for your sales document type.

Either you can change item category manually in the sales order based on Plant. OR write a routine for automatic item category assignment based on plant.

try and revert

Edited by: Yadav on Dec 3, 2009 8:29 AM

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Former Member
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Hi,

*How does the system determine the item category in the sales order*

The ITEM CATEGORY determination is done in VOV4 transaction

Path: IMG->SALES & DISTRIBTION>SALES>SALES DOCUMENTS>SALES DOCUMENT ITEM--->ASSIGN ITEM CATEGORIES

Here you have to assign you item category defined in VOV7 to

SALES DOCUMENT TYPE

ITEM CATEGORY GROUP

USAGE

HIGHER LEVEL ITEM CATEGORY

DEFAULT ITEM CATEGORY which you want the system to determine in the sales order.

is it possible that item categories for the same material will be diffrent for 2 plants

Here i am not clear on this question, are you asking to create the different ITEM CATEGORIES for the same material differently in different plants?

if this is the question yes, you can assign different item categories for the plants

Just extend the Material for the other plants and change the ITEM CATEGORY

Please revert if you have more queries

regards,

santosh

reazuddin_md
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Why you want to have 2 different item categories based on Plant?

can you explain the scenario? in std its not possible either to have diff item categories according to the plant.

Former Member
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hi,

Item Categories determination - Sales Order Type + Item Category Group + Usage + Higher level Item Category.

item categories is not depended only for material master ,so all the assignment should be same for plant & material combination

item category group in the material master should be same for material master(extended)

Regards

senya