Two different item categories in sales document

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

Can we have two different line items in the sale order by which one item is relevant for billing F2 and the second line item is relevant for pro forma invoice F5. And also, I want to use second line item as consignment item so that when customer uses that material we can send him a bill with reference to pro-forma invoice no.

Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated....

Thanks.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Please use "Item usage" in CMIR for customer specific and then determine the item category for specific customers. no need to maintain new sales document type.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Satish,

Can you pls. explain little bit more? little in detail.

Thanks.

[former_member641011]

at what base in sales order we trigger different item category .reply Asap

[Former Member]

Hi Sharma,

Yes, You can use two different line items in the sale order by which one item is relevant for billing F2 and the second line item is relevant for pro forma invoice F5 for any specific customer and Material Combination.

All you need to do is,

1. Maintain Customer Material Info Record (CMIR) in VD51

2. Specify your Customer No, SO, DC and Material.

3. Double click on your material and Create a new USAGE(Tcode-0VVW) and assign it to USAGE field under Control Section.

4. Then Determine the Consignment item category in VOV4, using the above Specified USAGE field.

For example if you created New USAGE field as "DEMO", assign DEMO to USAGE field under Control Section and

Determine the Consignment item category KBN as follows:

Document type(OR) + Item Category Group (Norm) + USAGE (Demo) + Higher level item category(Blank) = Item Category (KBN)

Thanks and Regards,

A.Govindaraj

[Former Member]

Hi Govind,

Thanks for your answer. It was very helpful. Let me share with you guys the exact scenario. The customer wants me to use one consignment item and one regular item in the sales document type.

Consignment item should not be billable whereas the other item can be sent to billing document streight.

What do you think the best solution for this.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hello,

It is not the best practice to do the consignment item with the standard Item in the same order, have you thought about the down stream process that would be effected with combining the two together like the Consignment Issues, Consignment returns ?

also the reporting would be the issue, for example if you would like to see the total value of stock that is on consignment, for this simple report you may need to pull data from few tables, instead of using VA05.

hope this helps.

regards

Edited by: SD.... on Nov 10, 2010 11:06 PM

Edited by: SD.... on Nov 10, 2010 11:07 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

You could try to use different item category to differentiate between consignment item and standard item. When you want to pull report based on consignment item, just request abaper to create a customised report and pull the report based on item category.

Thanks.

[former_member277304]

Item Category determines the processing of any Item/material that we enter in a sales order and in this way it also effects the procesing of any sales doc in which it is used. You can specify which item categories the system proposes during document processing for each sales document type and item category group. At the same time, you can specify additional item categories with which the system default can be overwritten. There is a maximum of three possible alternative item categories.

Path: Sales and Distribution - Sales - Sales Documents - Sales Document Item - Assign Item Categories

Check the copy control as well.

Regards.

[Former Member]

Our client was trying to keep as low as no. of order type during this implementation. But it's not fisible in this case....even if we will be able to bring these two item categories in the same document but it wont solve any purpose so we have to keep separate document types. FYI