General Item Category group In Material Master

[Former Member]

hi alll.,

What is the use of General Item Category group In Material Master?

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Lakshmanan.s

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

General item category grp is used in the scenarios where you want to determine BOM for a particular material.

This is linked to the higher item category in the confirguration.

This is used when the main material has different item category and the bom item has some other item category.

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Karan

[Former Member]

General Item category Group is an extension item category group. Example: if one select item catagory group as NORM, but under item category group, NORM can further be classified as Service item, packagaing item or Normal item using "general item category group". Also, General item category group is maintained at client level, this field can be maintain from basic data view. Thus in case item category group is missing, then general item category group is used for item category determination.

item category group determines how a material is processed in the sales order. When processing sales and distribution documents, the system uses the item category group to determine the item category and proposes it in the respective document. Item category group is defined in the material master record.

Example, in the standard SAP System, the item category group NORM is defined for materials kept in stock and the group DIEN for services and non-stock material

Also Pl refer these url's where the same kind of query was handled.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/55fb13545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm40/helpdata/en/35/26c751afab52b9e10000009b38f974/content.htm

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Rajesh Banka

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[Former Member]

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.

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

[Former Member]

Hi Pricol,

General Item category group in the material master helps to group materials that helps the system to determine Item categories during Sales document processing. If a Material group is configured specific to distribution channel, it has

priority if the corresponding activity is distribution channel dependent.

As you must be aware that Item category in the Sales document is determined based on the Sales document you use + Item category maintained in the Material master + Item Usage + Higher level item category = Default Item category (in sales order)

Hope the above helps you.

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Ajinkya

[Former Member]

hi,

the general item category and item category group are one of the factor to determine the item category for a line item in the sales order

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Murali

[Former Member]

HI

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