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Difference b/w item cat gr. and general item cat gr.

Former Member
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Hi everybody,

Can anyone plz tell me the difference between item cat group and general item cat group.

Thnx in advance....

With regards,

Subh

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Former Member
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Hi ,

1)Gen. Item Cat. Grp: Materials grouping that helps the system to determine item categories during sales document processing(It is proposed by system depending on Material Type

2)Item Cat.Grp :- Grouping of materials that the system uses to determine item categories during the processing of sales documents(Here we assign it manaually while creating the sales order)

Regards

Subramanyam

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hello, friend.

just an example in support of the other explanations. let's say you have a material, which has been maintained in several distribution channels. it has Item Categroup Group NORM.

in a specific distribution channel only, you would like this material to have a BOM. so for this material, you maintain in the specified channel, the General Item Category Group could either be ERLA or LUMF. the basic Item Category Group remains as NORM.

in effect, you can control the material BOM explosion to this channel only and process the same material without BOM in other channels.

hope this helped.

regards.

jty

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Hi,

Item category group : A grouping of materials that the system uses to determine item categories during the processing of sales documents.

General Item Category group : 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.

Edited by: Gangadhar Damerla on Jan 4, 2008 11:30 AM

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Hi

General item category group:Materials grouping that helps the system to determine item categories during sales document processing.

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

Raghu

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Item category group determines the behaviour of the item,Whether it is value item or free item.

General item category group determines the category of the item ,Like trading goods,service goods or finished goods.

The item category group determines how a material is processed in the sales order. It defines, for example, that pricing does not take place for a free of charge item, such as a business gift; or that inventory management is not carried out for a service. When processing sales and distribution documents, the system uses the item category group to determine the item category. The system determines the item category based on the item category group of the material and the current business transaction, and proposes it in the respective document.

When creating the material types non-stock material and services, DIEN is proposed in both cases for the item category group, because the order processing for both material types is identical: for example, pricing is carried out for both, but no availability check.