In VKOA .. what are customer , material groups

Question

hi ,
     in the tcode VKOA what are customer and material groups
where to see customer groups and material groups.....
and when PGI is done what happens to the costing document
thanks
mmn
rewards for sure

Answer 1

Hi,
Customer group is different from customer account assignment group. I have explained you about the customer account group.
<b>Customer group:</b>
Identifies a particular group of customers (for example, wholesale or retail) for the purpose of pricing or generating statistics.
<b>Use</b>
You can freely define customer groups according to the needs of your organization. You assign a customer group to an individual customer in either the customer master record of the sold-to party or in the sales document. In SD Customizing, you can create a condition type that lets you create pricing records for customer groups. Additionally, when you want to generate sales statistics, you can use customer groups as one of the selection criteria.
<b>Procedure</b>
The system can propose a value from the customer master record. You can change the value manually in the document.
Customer group you will find in - XD01 - sales area data - sales screen
Customer account assignment group you will find in - XD01 - sales area data - billing screen.
Similarly material group and mateial account assignment group are both different. Material account assignment group I have explained earlier.
<b>Material group:</b>
Key that you use to group together several materials or services with the same attributes, and to assign them to a particular material group.
<b>Use</b>
You can use material groups to:
Restrict the scope of analyses
Search specifically for material master records via search helps
Material group you will find in - MM01 - Basic data 1 screen
Material account assignment group  you will find in - MM01 - Sales:Sales Org. 2 screen.
Regards,
Allabaqsh G. Patil