Item Category Group

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,,,,

What is the difference between Item Category Group and General Item Category Group in Material Master --Sales Organization 2,, somebody says that there is no difference ..if there is no difference in that... why we maintain 2 times in that....

ravikumar.talluri@gmail.com

Thanks in Advance.

Ravikumar Talluri,

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[Former Member]

Hi

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.

Item Category Control

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.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm40/helpdata/en/51/710b3bbe61e405e10000000a11402f/content.htm

An item category group is defined in the material master record. For 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.

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/dd/55fb13545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm">ITEM CATEGORIES</a>

[Former Member]

General item category group

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

Item category group from material master

A grouping of materials that the system uses to determine item categories during the processing of sales documents

kiran

[Former Member]

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.