What's the difference between text and value type for SO item category?

[Former Member]

Dears,

Could anybody help me on this question?

Many thanks!

Regards,

Shiliang

[Former Member]

Hi Shiliang,

In a Bill Of Material the main item is a composite item which represents what is being sold to the customer. For eg. a computer typically would consist of Monitor, Keyboard,mouse and CPU, speakers. Here computer refers the collection of all these items which are physically existing and basically items present in our inventory ( Value Items ). Where as computer is just a text item meant to describe the collection.

Also to add the for Usage we use it as text sometimes, which is used to say the item has been authenticated by the quality dept and we print " Tested " on it or these days all the items come out with unique article numbers for identification purpose. So we use this usage as text.

Hope it adds. Pl reward if useful.

Thanks & Regards

Sadhu Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi Ni,

Item category is something which is useful if you want to include a material in the sales order.This item category is assigned to the combination of sales order type and item category grp.

Item category grp is put in the material master.

Text type item category is used for material which is not relevant for stock.That is we just want the description of material in sales order but doesn't want any availability check and pricing for it.

This can be used in case of Sales order BOM.

Value type item category is relevnt for stock material.

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Regards

Karan