Item Category Difference

dear friwends can any one tel me difference in TAN (Std. Item) and TAS (Third party Item)
Regards
vishal

Hello Vishal,
The system determines vairous item categories during the processing of sales documents depening on the material and sales document type you use.
Depending on the item category group that you apply from the material master record and the sales document type you are processing, the system automatically proposes an item category in the document.
In the standard system, for example, there are standard items (TAN), items that represent services (and do not require delivery processing), and items that represent packaging materials, third party materials (TAS) etc.
TAN represents a standard item that we deliver directly to the customer
TAS represents a third party item i.e. item is delivered directly from the vendor to the customer and finally we bill the customer for the goods delivered to him.
Reward if helps
Regards
Sai

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Materials grouping that helps the system to determine item categories during sales document processing.
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