item usage in item category determination

[Former Member]

Hi all !

In item category determination we use item usage.Can we change it during order creation manually and if yes then will it affect the item category? can we change it at header or item level? plz tell the process and logic behind it.

Thanks in advance!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pankaj

Item usage is used in determining the Item category and it is used in some specific cases which are written in ABAP/4 language.

To determine Item category in Sales ,system uses

- Sales document type

- Item category group

- Item usage (in some cases)

- Item category of the Higher level item (if higher level item exists).

Through "Item usage", we give command to the system to treat the item in a differently as specified in ABAP/4 language.

It will be more clear with the help ofbelow example.

Suppose, you have declared free goods offer 20% (INCLUSIVE) for material M1.

That means, whenever customer orders for 10 pieces of material M1, he has to pay for 8 pieces of M1 (Main item) and will get 2 pieces of M1(Sub-item) free-of-charge.

There will betwo lines in the Sales order like below,

M1 -

---

8 Pieces -

---

TAN (Item category). -

---

>>> MAIN ITEM --- >> (Price will be taken)

M1 -

---

2 Pieces -

---

TANN (Item category) -

---

>>> SUB-ITEM --- >> (No Price)

System is taking Price for Main item , But not taking Price for the Sub-item ,where as both are same material M1.

This is controlled by their respective Item category TAN and TANN respectively.

Again, system has determined two different Item category (TAN & TANN) for the same material as this is required for the above control.

We give the command to the system to behave in this way with the help of "ITEM USAGE".

We want the system to treat the sub-item with out Price(Price) and for this "Item usage" is FREE.

System has determined the Item category as below in satndard.

For Main item :

OR (Sales doc type) + NORM (Item cat grp) + (BLANK / no usage) + (BLANK) -

---

>>> TAN (Item category).

For Sub-item:

OR (Sales doc type) + NORM (Item cat grp) + FREE (Usage) + TAN (Item cat of hgh lvl item) -

---

>>> TANN (Item category).

So, from usage , system understand that , it has to use the same material now as free (with out price even if it has got a Price condition record) and hence a different Item category.

For material having Item category TANN, it has got a price (not a demo material), but system willnot consider it.

Therefore, in the Item category TANN, you will find Pricing as 100% discount.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

thanks to all for the quick reply.

So as per this conversation, item usage can not be changed during sales order creation in order to change the item category.

But there is one item usage at header level( sales tab) and and item level (sales A tab ) in sales order,please tell what is the significance of that? is that same item usage what we have in item category determination?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pankaj

Item Usage can not be changed during sales order creation. However, there is one way using variant which can help in redetermine te item usage depending on the characteristics of configurable materials. I have not worked on variants but have seen such scenarios.

You can further analyse item usage overriding thru variants.

Item usage of header and item level materials will not be different as per my knowledge.

thanks

Amit.

[Former Member]

thax

[Former Member]

Hi,

Item usage cannot be changed manually during the creation of sales order. The item category id determined on 4 parameters.

a) Sales document type

b) item category

c) Item category group

d) item usage

The item usage will come into picture in certain scenerios.For e.g.during free goods,the item usage is FREE, so the item category determined will be TAN-TANN.

Regards,

Nithin.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The item Usage is defined in the CUSTOMER MATERIAL INFO RECORD in VD51,

This will be used to determine the Item categories in VOV4 and this can be change

try this,

thanks,

santosh