Item Category Group

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

What is item Category Group? where we define this? how many Item Category groups are there?....

Thanks in Advance

[Former Member]

Hi

Actually there are two types of item category groups which we maintain in the material master..

'First is General Item category group and other is item category group

General Item category group is maintained by the MM consutants and Item category groups are maintained by the SD Consultants

We define the item category groups in the Img-sd-sales -sales documents--salesdocument item- item category groups

[Former Member]

Item Category Group is one of the field in Material Master --> Sales: General / Plant tab page. Item Category Group identifies that the Material belongs to which group, such as:

NORM - Delivery Item

LEIS - Service Item

BANS - Third Party

ERLA - To price Header Level in BOM

LUMF - To price Item Level in BOM.

& so On.

Item Category Group also controls determination of Item Category.

Regards,

Rajesh Banka

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[Former Member]

hI

The item category group determines how a product in the business transaction should be handled. It determines, for example, that pricing does not take place for free items such as promotional free gifts, or that inventory management is carried out for a service.

For processing of business transactions, the system uses the item category group to determine the item category. From the item category group of the product and the current transaction type, the system determines the item category and enters it as default in the relevant transaction at item level.

You can maintain the item category group when processing a product in the product master. For further information, see Structure link

Transaction-Controlling Fields. If, for example, you create a sales order for a product with item category group “NORM” (sales item), the system automatically determines the item category suitable for this.

In addition to the system proposal determined, you can also specify which item categories can be manually entered as alternatives to the system proposal. A maximum of three alternative item categories are possible.

You can make the relevant settings for item category determination in the Implementation Guide, under Customer Relationship Management ® Transactions ® Basic Settings ® Define Item Category Determination.

REFER THE LINK

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.

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SHESAGIRI GEDILA

[Former Member]

Item Cat Group:

A 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 is defined for all materials kept in stock.

Item Category Groups are defined in T.Code: OVAW

There around 40 standard Item cat groups and you can define more if you require.

Using the item category group, you group together different material types for item category determination from the SD view. For every material type, you can define a default item category group which is proposed by the SAP System when you create a material master record. For more information on setting default values please refer to the section "Define material type defaults.

In the sales document, the system determines the item category from the item category group of the material and from the sales document type and proposes this item category in the document. You assign item categories to sales order types and item category groups elsewhere. You can find further information on this in the section "Assign item categories.

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AK

[Former Member]

hi,

item category group is defined in the material master .

it is automatically generated depending up on the material type you select when you are creating a material

item category is one of the factor to determine item category in the sales order.

some item category groups are

NORM,ERLA,LUMF,BANS,BANC

path.

SPROSDSALES--DEFINE ITEM CATEGORY GROUPS

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Regards,

Murali

[former_member183879]

ICGs are defined based on material types.

They are defined in the following path.

SPROSDSALES--DEFINE ITEM CATEGORY GROUPS

These item category groups and then assigned to material types or they can be overwritten in material master data.

Then based on this ICG at material master level and sales document type and item category usage, the item category is decided during any sales transaction.

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Navaneetha Krishnan