About Item catagory usage

[Former Member]

Hi All Gurus,

We determine item catagory i.e

s/ditem catagory grpitem catagory usagehigher level item catagoryitem catagory.

I want to knw more abt Item catagory usage. Hw its work & its effects as well as abt higher level item catagory

Thanks in advance.

Regards

nitin

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

Abt Higher level item category.

at the tome of Free Goods, Material determination and BOM simply u can saw where is the subitem ur maintaining there u need to maintain the HLItem category..

Because Sub Item is working based on Main item

Ex: Free good

Main item: OR NORM FREE TAN

Sub Item : OR NORM FREE TAN TANN

this is saying that second item is belong to main item in sales orders over view in line item just go beside of that line for 2nd item there u will find main item No ' 10 ' in HLTC field..

Abt Item Usage

That system is determining from Customer Material Info record VD52 in details..

Those values and these item Usage values are same go and Check it .

I hope u r clear now..

Rewards if Useful..

regards

Durga Prasad

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

you can specify which item categories the system proposes during document processing for each sales document type and item category group. At the same time, you can specify additional item categories with which the system default can be overwritten. There is a maximum of three possible alternative item categories.

If, for example, you enter a material with the item category group NORM in a standard order, the SAP System determines the allowed item category via the assignment of item categories to sales document types and item category groups.

The system default and the allowed alternatives are always determined from the sales document type and one or two further criteria. The system default depends on the following criteria:

sales document type

item category group

item category of the higher-level item

item category usage

Note

The SAP System automatically copies the item category determined for a sales document item to the delivery.

Recommendation

Depending on the initial situation you can start the assignment differently:

When you define a new sales document type, you should specify the proposed and the allowed item categories for the materials that are represented by the item category group.

When you define a new item category, you should specify for which sales document types an item category is proposed or which item category is possible for the materials represented by the item category group.

When you define a new item category group, you are to enhance the assignment of item categories to sales document types by this new item category group.

Actions

To define item category determination, proceed, for example, as follows:

1. Choose the sales document type to which you want to assign item categories.

2. Then choose one of the item category groups.

3. Specify all the allowed item categories for the combination of sales document type and item category group.

If you are dealing with a non-material item, you must specify the corresponding item usage.

If it is a subitem, specify the item category of the higher-level item.

If it is an item category that is to be proposed in the sales document, you must indicate the combination of item category, item category group and sales document type as a default value.

4. If necessary, specify between one and a maximum of three item categories, with which the system default can be manually overwritten during document processing.

Reward points if it helps.

Thanks & Regards

Sasikanth.Ch

[Former Member]

hi,

usage is one of the determining factors for item category.

Importantly Usage tells how a particular item is oging to be used and based on that we try to derive the item cat.

for example we for free goods.

OR + Norm --- > TAN (for main item)

OR + Norm + Free (Usage) + Tan -- > TANN (free item)

without this determination we cannot have free goods functionality working at sales order.Similary we have usages for cross selling CSEL, Batch split CHSP etc.

The higher level item cat. influences the functionality of the sub item.

like in a BOM we have

OR + ERLA -- > TAQ (Pricing is there) - Main item

OR + Norm + -- + TAQ (High.levl it cat.) -- > TAE (no price) - component.

hope it helps.

regards

sadhu kishore