FUNCTIONALITY OF ITEM CATEGORY

Item Category

Purpose

This wiki page will breify discuss about functionality of Item Category in SAP Sales and Distribution transaction.

Introduction

Item category is critical and esstential part of sales order and sales process. It generally controls the behaviour of item in a sales order, like, pricing, TOR, etc.

Functionalities of Item Category

Item Type	Whether the item is standard or text or value item.
Completion Rule	The rule for establishing when a quotation or  contract is complete.
Business Data Item	Whether business data in the item can be  different to that of the doc header.
Relevant for billing
Schedule Line Allowed	Items that are relevant for del will  always have schedule lines.
Order Quantity	= 1
Item Relevant for Delivery	We need to check this field in item  category TATX.
Create Delivery Group	You use a delivery group to determine  a common delivery date for all  the items that it contains.  Especially used in BOM.
Determine Cost	Indicates whether, during pricing, the system  determines the cost  (stock value) of a sales document item.
Relevant for weight and volume
Credit active
Pricing	In the case of text items, however, pricing would  not make sense.

Types of Item Category

The following table will discuss about different type of standard item category available:

Item Category	Description	Features
BVN	Cash Sale
TAB	Individual order purchase
G2N	Credit memo
TAK	Make to order
KBN	Consignment fill up
KRN	Consignment return
TAQ	Extent delivery- BOM
TAS	Third party
REN	Returns
L2N	Debit memo
TAC	Configurable material
KEN	Consignment issue
KAN	Consignment Pickup
TAP	Extent delivery higher lever item in BOM
TAE	Explanation - BOM
TAW	Value Item
AGN	Standard item in QT	Pricing, Schedule Line Allowed, Not relevant for billing
TAN	Standard item in Order	Pricing, Schedule Line Allowed, Relevant for billing
TANN	Free of Charge Item in order	No pricing, Schedule line allowed, not relevant for billing
TATX	Text item in Order	No pricing, No schedule lines, relevant for billing Text items do not require processing for pricing,  taxes & weight calculations Items that are not relevant for del, such as credit  memo requests, do not have schedule lines. Usually, items that do not have schedule lines cannot  be copied in to a delivery. Text items are an exception. You do not need pricing or del quantities & dates (i.e.  schedule lines) for a text item (item cat: TATX), in the  standard order.

Item Category Determination

Depending on the item category group that you apply & the sales doc type you are processing the system automatically proposes an item category in the document.

SPRO Path	IMG - Sales and Distribution - Sales - Sales Document - Sales Document Item - Assign Item Category
Transaction Code	VOV4

Determination Rule

Item Category	= Sales Document Type	+ Item Category Group  from material master	+ Usage	+ Higher Level Item Category  from preceeding line item

Example

Sales Document Type	Item Category Group	Usage	Higher Level Item Category	Default Item Category
OR	NORM		TAN	TANN
OR	NORM			TAN
OR	NORM	FREE	TAN	TANN