Account Assignment Category

[Former Member]

Hi,

I would like to create Perchase order of new material no. then system require Account Assignment Category. Please advise how we know that this material no. need Account Assignment Category or not.

Thank you in advance and Regards,

Polla

[Former Member]

Hi Polla,

Material can be purchased as direct and indirect materials, say stock & Non-stock materials. When you purchase Direct material , which is used in production of certain product ,and inventory is maintained. Account assignment will be maintained in SAP through automatic account determination.

When you procure Indirect or Non-stock material you need to supply the account assignment category for which the cost of purchase will be incurred.

For example when you select , Acct assn. cat "k" ( Cost center) you have to supply the COST CENTER and the G/L account number. In this case when you receive the material it will get consumed.

SAP PO can have account assignment categories like

Asset - A

Cost center- K

Order - F

Project - P etc.

Account Assignment Category: - A key indicating whether an item is to be assigned to an auxiliary account (such as a cost center).

The account assignment category determines which account assignment details are required for the item (for example, cost center or account number).

Generally used Account Assignment Categories are Cost Center (K) in case of Miscellaneous Purchases, Assets (A) in Capital Goods Purchases, etc...

You can configure Account Assignment Category in Transaction OME9 OR you can go with following path;

SPRO > MM > Purchasing > Account Assignment > Maintain Account Assignment Categories

Her you have to perform following Activities;

1. Check the attributes of the account assignment categories

2. Maintain the account assignment categories to suit your requirements

Regards,

Nani.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Yeah as rajat mentioned you can get a fair idea from the material type whether your new material is meant for stock or consumption i.e. you procure the material without AAC or with AAC.

Also check for the material if accounting view is maintained, if it is not maintained you will not be anyway able to procure it without AAC i.e. you will not be able to stock the material.

regards,

Prithviraj

[Former Member]

chk the material type of material

if it is non stock material UNBW then u will have to enter acnt assngnment

also chk fr mat type NLAG

[Former Member]

Hi

With material number why do you need to acct asignment category for PO unless it is service/nonvaluated materials, what kind of material you are using. For materials with valuation class(you maintain Accounting view) you must do the OBYC setting then you do not need acount asignment.

For you if during PO it needs Acct assignment then your material is not having automatic acct determination details so only system is prompting that need. Either you assign K and G/L account/costcenter combination in PO or You go for autmatic deternination by maintaining OBYC setting for the material.

Ist case you will not have stock view as it is directly aganist cost center, second case you can view the stock.

Best Regards

SAM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Material can be purchased with reference to Account Assignment Category or with out ref to Account Assignment Category.

That all depands upon business requirement,if you wants to keep the material in inventory you can cretae PO for that material without Account Assignment Category

and if you don't wants to keep the material in inventory you can cretae PO for that material with Account Assignment Category.in this case materail will consumed at the time of GR itself.