Item category W ( material groups )

Hello
I have a requirement.
Creation of Item category W for purchase requisitions.
Reason : We need to create Contracts with Item category W. And Purchase requisition is a requisite for creation of contracts.
How do i handle this.
I had initially suggested that Use of Item category W is not possible for Purchase requisitions
Rather they should use a PR with standard Item category and Account assignment U ( unknown)
Then create a contract referencing this Purchase requisiion.
However, when i tried this myself, the item category field itself got greyed out,
Request someone to guide me onthis. What is the other combination, of Itemcategory and acc. Assignment can i use for PRs such that i can create value contracts
Kindly advise. This is very urgently needed.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Santosh

You can create a standard PR with blank item category and acct. assign. Cat.
Then create a value contract with document type WK with ref to PR, in the screen adopt + Details you can define the item category W & require Account assignment category.
Please check the combination of them in below path in SPRO.
SPROMaterial mgtPurchasingu2014Account assignment--Define Combination of Item Categories/Account Assignment Cat
Hope help U.
Regards
Vikrant Hande

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Blank -Standard
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D- Service
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I have searched all the threads and gone through before posting my query. So i would ask moderators to go through the thread properly before rejecting this.
We have value contracts with respect to a particular material group without material and with item category W in the contract item, Please note that for the materials with this material group, the source determination is not set and source list is also not maintained.
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As mentioned earlier, we are not creating PR with reference to contract.
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Again, within a material group there can be several infor records, For example:
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