Item category means

Hello Experts.
Please explain me what exactly mean by item category.why it is needed and what are the types of it
and what would be the impact of it. Please explain me in a layman language with example.
I seen this statement in sd book by glenn williams
The sales item category is one of the most important fields in the SAP sales order. It controls
the sales document flow and also impacts the schedule line category. The item category
of the sales order affects the delivery and finally impacts the billing process as well.

Dear shiva
Item categories are defined to provide additional control functions for the sales documents and thus meet the demands resulting from different business transactions. A separate control is defined for each of these item categories. For example, the functions of a standard item are completely different from those of a free-of-charge item or a text item.
The system uses an item category to process a material differently in each sales document type. For example, you can define a different control for a material in an inquiry and a material in an order.
When you create a sales document, the system determines the item category for an item according to settings in the item category determination table for the sales document type, item category group, item usage, and higher level item.
The item category determines together with other settings, for example in the material master, the following:
==> The procurement type
==> In which kinds of stock the material can be managed
==> The account assignment category
To define an item category, you answer the following questions:
=> Is a material number a required entry?
=> Is the item to be checked against stock?
=> Is the item a text-only item with no further functions?
=> Are different-sized sections of the item to be entered?
=> Are negative quantities allowed?
=> Are sub-items supported?
=> Is the item a plant maintenance (PM) structure element?
=> Is the item an intra material?
=> Is the item a document item or class item?
=> Which screens are selected and which fields appear on the item detail screens?
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

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hi experts
Can some body explain me on below different PO with item category ??
What is the use of these item categories with some example ??
B     Blanket item
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T     Text
Thanks

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MM group wrote:
> hii
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> Can u explain me about the T item category type ??
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> And its purpose ??
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> Thanks
Ill give you other function used with item category T in one of our latest projects:
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hi friends,
I created one sales order..here, one item category is determined and it is editable...now i want to know
1) how is the item category determined?
2) if I'm able to change the item category, what effect it will have on the document? is it allowed?
thanks,
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Pratap,
There are two parts to your answer 1) item category is determined by the
1)sales document type
2) Item Category Group
3) Higer Value Item
4) Item Usage.
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That is for each order reason, there is an item category. This is not defined anywhere yet
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This is Chee Wee, i'm new to SD, i would like to seek for an advice for the topic related to Item Category in Sales Order.
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Basically tem category will determine based on these key combination
Item category group(Material master)+Sales document type(We enter doc type in the creation initial screen)--->Item category
For Example NORM+OR--->TAN.
As per your explanation
I hope In your case stock availability also one of the factor in the item category determination.This might have done some enhancement.
There are two item categories in your process one is "NoPo" --> No Auto Po creation and second one is "AuPO" --> AutoPo creation.
the system automatic changed to "NoPO", but when i change the order qty to 70, then i'm able to changed the itemcat to "AuPo"!!
60 Qty Stock available, you have created sales order for 50 Qt here requirement is less than stock availability so system will not allow you to enter AuPo item category Because there no need of auto PO creation for stock.
When you created sales order for 70 Qty, stock available only 60 so there is shortage of 10 Qty.now system needs to allow to create Auto PO to procure the shortage stock of 10 Qty, so system is allowing you to enter Yaupon item category.
There might be some work around kind take help of ABAPer to get the more details about your item category determination.
I hope this will help you,
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Murali.

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