General item category and Item category group in Sales org 2 ?

[Former Member]

HI

Whats is Diff btw general item category group and item category group in Sales Org 2.

And where is general category group useful???

explain in detail.

ghassan

[Former Member]

Hi Ghassan,

To get to the point, the Item Category group is used for sales processes (e.g. outbound delivery etc). The General Item Category group is used for any other process (e.g. inbound delivery).

Hope this answers?

[Former Member]

I forgot to add: The main purpose of these two groups is to help in determination of the Item category in the document (e.g. sales order or delivery).

E.g. in sales orders, the Item Category determination is done based on the below combination:

Document Type + Item Category Group + Usage + Higher Level Item Category Group => Item Category

[Former Member]

hi,

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.

Item Category Group is one of the component which along with the Sales Doc Type, The Item Usage and Higher Level Item Category decide about the Item Category in a sales doc.

for example we can ERLA as item cat group and carry out the header level pricing or we can LUMF and do the item level pricing in case of a Sales BOM.

General item category group talks about further classification of a material. Like NLAG- non stock material can be used to identify bom header items, service items.

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Sadhu Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi sadhu,

Can u explain in detail what is general item category group???

ghassan

[Former Member]

Hi Gffoor.,

Item category group defines the behaviour of the material whether it is a third party material,individual purchase order material or normal material

Reward if helpful

Thanks & Regards

Narayana