Product Category Rules in Shopping Cart

Hi All,
Currently trying to figure out the logic behind how the SRM system fills in the Product Category field in the Shopping Cart when taking an item from a Punch-Out Catalog. From what I've researched so far, how it is supposed to work is:
If a valid value is passed through NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[n] then SRM should populate this.
If no value is passed then default value maintained in Ext. Attributes of Org. Structure is taken.
Are there any other rules that I'm missing? What if the catalog passes a valid Product ID, but no Product Category, will the system take the associated Product Category from COMMPR01, or will it take the default from org structure? In our tests we found that is taking the default from org structure, and I'm not sure if this is a bug, standard, or configuration issue.
Regards,
Andrew Bondarev

Hi Richardo,
Thanks for the response. We have already checked the table, and it doens't seem that there are duplicate entries for the Product Category.
We did just have a breakthrough though in that if we supress the fields NEW_ITEM-ext_schema_type and NEW_ITEMEXT_CATEGORY_ID[n], then the proper value is populated in SRM.
Note: We are performing the mapping on the APC side, so the value in NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[n] is already the Product Category found in COMM_HIERARCHY. No mapping should be needed in SRM. I'm guessing that by passing a schema type and ext. category ID, SRM is looking for some mapping in SRM, but can't find it so it uses the value in the Org. Structure.
Now the issue is figuring out how to allow for the values for Schema and Ext.Category to still be passed from APC, but have SAP ignore them.
Regards,
Andrew

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