what is UNSPSC? how to use them?

[Former Member]

Hi

Can any one tell me what is UNSPSC, how do we use them?

what is the benfit of using them, Is that UNSPSC manadatory for categorising the products.

where do we find this UNSPSC in the SPRO path?

Regards,

Sairam.

[Former Member]

Hi Ram,

UNSPSC is United Nations Standard Products and Service Code.

We have many products and services available in the market. But our vendors may use some codes in their systems and we may have those codes with some other terminlology for our understanding. So we can make use of UNSPSC and normalise this mismatch and globalise the codes for the products and services we are buying.

Standard SAP doesnt provide this in the Shopping Cart.

We can make use of MDM Catalogs... and bring this UNSPSC to a Custom created field in Shoppin Cart.

Thanks & Regards,

Ashwin.

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[Former Member]

Hello Sri Ram,

UNSPSC: United Nations Standard Products and Services Code

All most all companies, especially public companies use UNSPSC standards to categorize their products. These code are same for all and agreed by the members of UNSPSC organizational body. Categorizong the products using UNSPSC helps companies to be in complience with SOX.

As per my knowledge, UNSPSC codes are not delivered by SAP, normally these are the codes maintained by clients as per their business needs. There are over 20000+ commodity (product category) codes available. So all companies doesn't need all.

UNSPSC hierarchial classification looks as follows...

For ex: 44000000 (Office Equipment and Accesssories and Supplies) - Sement

- 44120000 (Office Supplies) - Family

- 44121500 (Mailing Supplies) - Class

- 44121508 (Message Droppers) - Commodity

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In addition to above 8 digit number you can have two more characters as per your business function. But most of the companies use 8 digit. Hope this information helps.

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Thanks,

Shankar

[Former Member]

Hi Sairam,

It is very useful for example to map your product category with an external vendor catalog, UNSPSC can be the key.

I hope this helps you.

José Luis D.

[Former Member]

Hi Sai,

This is a code for categorizing Products and services. A kind of standard developed by United nations development council.

As far as SAP is concerned i don't know about the link between this code and the ECC or for that matter with any SAP package.

Please raise a query with SAP in this regard and please let us know why you want this and how exactly you are going to use this ?

Rgds,

Teja

[masa_139]

Hi,

[http://www.unspsc.org/|http://www.unspsc.org/]

It is category classification.

Regards,

Masa