IMPORTANCE OF ITEM CATEGORY & SCHEDULE LINE

[Former Member]

HI,

CAN U TELL ME THE IMPORTANCE OF ITEM CATEGORY & SCHEDULE LINE CATEGORY ?

ALSO THE IMPORTANCE OF CUPP & DOPP IN A PRICING PROCEDURE ?

RAJARSHI

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Item Category :

Item categories are defined to provide additional control functions for the sales documents and thus meet the demands resulting from different business transactions. A separate control is defined for each of these item categories. For example, the functions of a standard item are completely different from those of a free-of-charge item or a text item.

The system uses an item category to process a material differently in each sales document type. For example, you can define a different control for a material in an inquiry and a material in an order.

item category group

Group specified in the material master record.

The system uses the item category group and the sales document type to determine the category of a document item. For example, in the SAP standard version the item category group NORM has been defined for all materials that are kept in stock.

Some of the Item Categories with Description:

AFN Inquiry Item

AFNN Free of Charge Item

AFTX Text Item

AGN Quotation Standard Item

AGNN Free of Charge Item

BVN Cash Sales

L2N Request

L2W Request

NLC InterCo Stock Tr.Itm

NLN StandStockTransItem

REN Standard Item

RENN Free Goods Item

TAD Service

TADC Configurable Service

TAE Explanation

TAF Configurable Service

TAL Ret.Packag.Shipment

TALS Standard Item: SLS

TAN Standard Item

TANN Free of Charge Item

TAO Milestone-Bill.Plan

TAP Pric.at Item Level

TAQ Pric.at Header Level

TAS Third Party Item

TATX Text Item

TAW Value Item

WKC ValContrItem-Config.

WKN Value Contract Item

Some of the Item category Groups with Description:

0001 Make-to-order

0003 Make to order/Assem.

BANS Third-party item

DIEN Service w/ Delivery

ERLA Structure/Mat. above

LEAS Leasing

LEER Empties

LEIC Service w/o del.conf

LEIH Returnable packaging

LEIS Service w/o Delivery

LUMF Structure/mat. below

NLAG Non-stock material

NORM Standard item

VCIT Value contract item

VERP Packaging

Schedule Lines:

Together with the sales document types and item categories, the schedule line categories contained in the standard SAP R/3 System cover the most common business transactions.

The SAP System can only copy items of a sales document to a delivery if they have schedule lines. The control of the schedule lines depends on the schedule line category.

The following menu options describe how you define schedule line categories or adapt them to the requirements of your organization. You must process the following points to do this:

You must define schedule line categories or adapt them to your requirements.

You must allocate the schedule line categories to the item categories depending on the MRP type.

Cupp [Customer Pricing Procedure] & Dupp [ document Pricing Procedure] are the crucial fields in Pricing procedure determination.

Hope ths help

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Regards,

Vishal Jajoo

[Former Member]

hi,

item category controls the complete behaviour of a line item in order, delivery and billing like for example, whether

schedule line is allowed or not

packing is required or not

picking is possible or not

delivery is possible or not

billing plans

billing is to be done or not

what is the billing relevance ie to an order or delivery

Schedule item category triggers the availability check, and also tells about the MRP. Also for example in case of a third party order the SL category is CS, means there is no delivery processing involved for that item. Also its useful in mentioning the type of purchase order to be used and the item category for the purchase order to be placed, for example in stock transfers.

Doc. pricing proc gives one more option in combination with the same sales area to have a diff pricing proc. Also for example we can have one pricing proc for an order with doc. pric proc as " A " and one more for billing doc, with doc. pricing proc. as say " X " with inthe same sales area.

As well you distinguish between diff sets of customers by applying diff, cust pric proc for a given sales area.

Hope it helps. Pl reward reward if useful.

Thanks

Sadhu Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi

<b> ITEM CATEGORY

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.

An indicator that defines the characteristics of a document item.

For example, the item category controls the type and scope of:

Pricing

Billing

Delivery

Inventory posting

Transfer of requirements

Items in stock, and value and text items are item categories.

U can do settings in <b>VOV7/VOV4</b>

SCHEDULE LINE CATEGORY</b>

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/55fb20545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm

schedule controls delivery dates & quantites ,movement type updates values$ quantites