Item Category Group

[Former Member]

Hi sap gurus,

what is is the different between the item category group and general item category group in sales document type.What are there functions and where these are assign in IMG.

Thanks & Regards

Sudhansu Mishra

[Former Member]

as we know, the item category grp is used in the determination of Item category in SD.

Actually the item cat. grp is mostly relevant to Sales and distribution , particularly to the *one distribution chain level

.*But in Gen. item cat. group is maintained at Basic data 1, since it is maintained at client level, it can be used thro diff sales orgs.

Also it can be used in MM perspective.

There are scenarios where we can maintain these two differently. But item category is always determined from item category group.

Hope it is useful..

Reward points if useful..

Regards,

Kaleeswaran

[Former Member]

Hi

Item category group is used in the item category determination.

general item category group : client level (Basic data 1)

item category group : Sales org/Dist channel specific (Sales 2 view )

Item category group is used mainly on determination of item category with order type (T Code : VOV4)

both of them are same only. only difference is use of that in SD we are using the item category group which is specified in Salea 2 view of material master.. so this is specific to that sales org and distribution channel

whereas in basic data we are maintaining general Item category group which is applicable for that material in all sales area if we hadnt maintained the sales org specific one... and also this is used in the other modules like MM also...

reward if helps

Muthupandiyan

Edited by: Muthupandiyan on Mar 14, 2008 12:03 PM

[Former Member]

The item category controls what the item does in the sales doc & in any later processing for that business transaction. It controls the sales doc & affects the schedule line category.

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.

There are several scenarios where we use different item category groups like when we sell material as group i.e. BOM or Sales Set and Make to Order.

-code to maintain different item category group

SPRO- IMG->Sales and Distribution->Sales->Sales Documents->Sales Document Item-> define item category group

SPRO- IMG->Sales and Distribution->Sales->Sales Documents->Sales Document Item-> Assign Item categories.