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Item Category group

Former Member
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Dear All,

Please let me know the difference between Item category group and general item category group?

what is the relevance of these fields in material master ?

Thanks

Shailesh

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Former Member
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Hi shailesh,

<i>General item category group</i>:

This item category along with the sales document type, usage of the item and the higher level item category determines the item category of the line item for a document processing. Accordingly the item behaves in various document types. For eg: item in a quotation is not relevant for delivery but the item in a sales order is relevant for delivery.

<i>Item Category Group</i>:

Now apart from the standard selling of the products some times the material is sold in sets. Like a 'computer' which consists of a hard drive, a processor, a monitor, a key board and a mouse. So some settings have to be done in order for the pricing as far as this set is concerned. This you do with the help of sales order BOM. In SAP, you do the pricing either at the header item level or at the sub item level. Now in this item category group if you put 'ERLA then this informs the system that pricing is to be done at the header item level. The item category for header item will be 'TAQ' and for the sub items will be 'TAE' Now if you want to carry out pricing at sub item level, then for Header item you maintain 'LUMF' in the item category group in basic data 1 and sales :sales org. 2 screens of the material master data.

Now what happens the item category for header item is 'TAP' and for sub items it is 'TAN' only. TAN will trigger pricing at the sub item level. The item category for header item is determined and the item category for the sub item is also determined. So in a single document there are 2 different item categories.

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Allabaqsh G. Patil

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Former Member
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hi

Feiend

item category group places at two tabs in MMR

Basic data-1: it indicates ,this ICG is ganeral for all tha transection

sales data : icg in this tab belongs to sales transections Ex-sales order

When ever u create a sales order system had given 1 St preference to ICG in sales tab, if it is not maintained ,next preference to ganeral itemcategory group

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Rajesh

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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.

refer sdn thread on the topic

Former Member
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Hi

General Item Category:

Materials grouping that helps the system to determine item categories during sales document processing.

If a group is configured specific to distribution channel, it has priority if the corresponding activity is distribution channel-dependent.

Item Category Group:

Depending on the item category group that you apply and the sales document type you are processing, the system automatically proposes an item category in the document.

Item category group is support field to determine the Item category in the sales order.

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Prasanna R

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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.

Depending on the sales document type, different item categories are allowed. The item categories can also be adapted using control elements to meet the special requirements of your installation. You can modify the existing item categories or you can create your own. Your system administrator is responsible for maintaining the control elements.

IGeneral item category group

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.

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 elsewhe