Product Category

[Former Member]

Hi,

I need to add an extra field to a FI report. The field is Product Category.

Through which table should i fetch the data? Is item category and product category the same?

Regards,

Nechur.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Product groups are not equal to Item categories

Material groups are nothing but Product groups

VBRP - MATKL

This is INVOICE >>> ITEM DATA >>> ITEM DETAIL >>> MATERIAL GROUPS

Kapil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kapil,

Product group and product category are the same?????

Regards,

Nechur

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

VBRP-MATKL is Merchandise Category. Is it same as product category?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As far as understanding it is same

Kapil

[former_member183819]

Hi

Double check and clarify ..

product category is equivalent to material Group in SRM

product category - SRM Comm_category = Material Group ECC - t023(table in ECC)

[Lakshmipathi]

Is item category and product category the same?

No certainly not. As you would be aware item category determines

a) should pricing be carried out for the item ?

b) when the item be treated as completed ?

c) Are schedule lines are allowed for the item ?? etc.

Like this, many factors are being determined based on the item category.

You can consider Product Category as material division which we can see in material master Basic Data1 tab. Let us take an example in the case of Britannia who manufactures products like Biscuits, Cocoa Butter, Frying Oils etc., Here you can treat Biscuits as one product group, Frying Oils as one Product group etc., Under Biscuits, you can have any number of varieties with different tastes but all are considered as biscuits.

Hope you got the difference.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi