PRICAT TRANSFER ERROR

[Former Member]

When I am trnasfering a PRICAT, I am getting error message of required field Mer catgy of sender of GTIN 12457892221245 valid from 20130314 is not filled

please suggest where to fill this data.

[paul_gendreau]

In IS-Retail, Merchandise Category is a required field for the creation of an Article. 

During PRICAT Inbound the vendor must either supply the Merchandise Category for each article per the list of Merchandise Categories configured in ECC (which is very unlikely to be the case) or you must maintain a cross reference (by vendor) from the vendor’s Merchandise Category to the ECC Merchandise Category.

As a rule, the article for the manufacturer (vendor) belongs to a different merchandise category than for the retailer (customer). For this reason, the retailer can assign the corresponding merchandise category to the manufacturer merchandise category with which the retailer is familiar. The retailer's merchandise category here is the SAP merchandise category, that is, the merchandise category that is assigned to the article in the basic data of the article master. The merchandise category of the manufacturer (vendor) is called external merchandise category in the article master. 

The cross reference can be maintained using either T-Code W_PRICAT_MAINTAIN or T-Code W_PRICAT_ASSIGN_002.

As reference, please review:  Master Data Exchange Using Price Catalogs

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/f1/fa723558fa5542e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm

- Paul

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Paul Gendreau

SAP Retail, Inc.