Master Category, Purchasing Category & Product classification

[Former Member]

What is the difference between Master category, Purchasing category and Product classifications in supplier lifecycle management?

[former_member194106]

Hi guest!

With Purchasing categories you can do the following:

• Manage your suppliers according to specific categories of goods and services, for example, hardware and software, or installation and maintenance
• Monitor your pool of suppliers
• Optimize the purchasing process and reduce costs
• Use them for questionnaires, qualification templates, and suppliers

Master categories allows you to map semantically identical material groups or product categories with different numbers in a system landscape with multiple backends including, for example, SAP ERP or SAP SRM.  This harmonizes your material groups from different backends to a single hierarchical structure. It is also possible to assign a master categories to a purchasing category.

All this information was found on the help portal. For further information on how to assign categories and publish product classifications, please check the following link:

Managing Purchasing Categories - SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management - SAP Library

I hope this will help you on this matter.

Thanks,

Pablo

[claire_yang]

Hi,

Have you checked F1 help of these fields?

Regards,
Claire