Relevance of item categories M & W in contracts

Hi gurus,
Can anyone through some light on relevance of item categories M & W in contracts.
Thanx in advance.
Tulja Thakur

Dear Tulja
The function of item category is to influence document field control.
The contract specific item categories M and W are mostly used when you do not intend to use material number.
For W-Material group:You can create a contract for a material group (e.g: footwear) such that while creating contract release order you can specify various items (shoes, floaters et.al) against that contract provided account assignment category is mentioned.
For M- Material Unknown:You create this type of contract with a vendor where he can supply various materials against this contract. Material group is required.
With Value Contract (wk) you can use both M and W type of item categories but with Quantity contract (mk) you can only item category M
Hope this helps
Regards
Siddharth

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We have a requirement centralize the bulk of procurement activities from ERP to SRM, but this includes making provision for Sub-Contracting, Consignment Stock and Stock Transfer Orders.
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Hi Dave
SAP dont support this functionality since there is no inventory stuffs handled by SRM
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http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SRM/Documentation-BBP_CREATE_BE_PO_NEW
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SRM/BBP_CREATE_BE_PO_NEW-CreatePOin+backend
from thread extracted
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Item Categories

Hi All
SAP Item category there is a field called Billing Relevance--ABCDEF......V
please explain me the functionality of each alphabet,
thanks
regards

Relevant for Billing:
Indicates what the basis for billing should be.
A: Delivery-related billing document
Billing is based on the outbound delivery. Billing status is only updated in the outbound delivery.
B: Relevant for order-related billing - status according to order quantity
Billing is based on the sales document. The requested delivery quantity determines the billing status.
Item categories REN (Returns) and BVN (Cash sales items) are set up with billing relevance "B" in the standard system.
C: Relevant for order-related billing - status according to target quantity
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Item categories G2N (Credit memo) and L2N (Debit memo) are set up with billing relevance "C" in the standard system.
D: Relevant for pro forma
The billing relevance indicator must contain a value (not be blank) in order to be able to create pro forma invoices. Indicator "D" can also be used as follows for cross-company-code business processing:
In the case of a free-of-charge outbound delivery, the company code that is responsible for the delivery should be granted an internal settlement.
You can use indicator "D" to record free-of-charge outbound deliveries and grant internal settlements to the relevant company code.
F: Order-related billing doc. - status according to invoice quantity
Relevant for order-related billing documents based on the invoice receipt quantity (third-party business transaction). The system transfers the order into the billing due list only after the vendor invoice has been received and processed in the purchasing department. After the receipt of each invoice, a customer invoice is created for the quantity that appears on the vendor invoice. The order has status "Billed" until the next vendor invoice is received.
Item category TAS (Third party item) is set up with billing relevance "F" in the standard system.
This process can also be related to the quantity of goods receipt.
You can make the control setting as to whether the invoice receipt quantity or the goods receipt quantity should be relevant for billing in the copy control for billing on the item level in the billing quantity field. (In Customizing, choose Sales and Distribution -> Billing -> Billing documents -> Maintain Copying Control for Billing Documents -> Copying Control: Delivery to Billing Document -> Item, then select an item category.)
G: Order-related billing of the delivery quantity
The order is relevant for billing. More specifically, the cumulated delivery quantity that was already delivered is relevant for billing. You can use this category to bill for multiple partial deliveries at once.
H: Delivery-related billing - no zero quantities
You can use this category to avoid items with a value of zero being included in the billing document.
I: Order-relevant billing - billing plan
Billing occurs by way of the billing plan and its status. The status of the order item is seen as the sum of the billing plan status and the billing status.
Item categories WVN (Maint. Contract Item), MVN (Lease item) and TAO (Milestone billing) are set up with billing relevance "I" in the standard system.
J: Relevant for deliveries across EU countries
The outbound delivery is only relevant for billing if:
1. The Plants abroad active field is selected (found in Customizing under Financial Accounting -> Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Tax on Sales/Purchases -> Basic Settings -> Plants Abroad -> Activate Plants Abroad)
2. Country of departure (country where the plant is located) and destination country (country where the ship-to party is located) are different EU countries.
Item categories KBN (Consignment fill-up), KAN (Consignment Pick-up) and NLN (Standard Stock Transfer Item) are set up with billing relevance "J" in the standard system.
K: Delivery-related invoices for partial quantity
You can use this indicator if you want to select both items and partial quantities for billing.
Q: Relevant for delivery-related CRM billing
You can use this indicator if you use CRM billing to invoice the items delivered and goods-issue-posted in the R/3 OLTP system.
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Nadarajah Pratheb

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In GTS, we currently map ECC item categories to GTS item categories, and this
determines what materials are screened against the embargo and sanctioned party
lists. However, ECC item categories are mainly used to determine accounts, and
have little to do with what the material is. Is there another method to map
line-items to GTS (perhaps at the Material or Material Group level) other than
using ECC item categories?

Venkat - If you map the ECC item categories to a single "NON-GTS" item category which you do not activate for embargo or SPL, then you will not be performing any GTS checks on them, which I am assuming is not what Daniel would want. Even though Embargo and SPL checks are done against the relevant busienss partners, these checks are still done at the item level for each item in the document. If the item categories are not mapped for these services then no checks will be performed.
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Dear gurus,
my requirement is to have the ability to swap between two different item categories for sales orders for sub-contracting.
This should be controlled by a combination of the material and a value maintained the Usage field in the Customer Material Info Record (for example by entering a ‘V’). A combination of Sales Doc Type, Item Cat Group and Usage should result in the creation of a purchase requisition.
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The user would just change the item category within the sales order, and the system would automatically remove the purchase requisition assigned to the SO, and create a process order and assign it to the SO.
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Hi Majlo,
In my system, I checked. First created sales order with third party line item and then changed item category to normal item category.
Till Purchase order not created, I can change Item category of my sales order line item.
In this case SAP inform by log and once save delete purchase requisition of that line item .
For this you need to assign another item category as an manual item category in SPRO Item category assignment.
After this user can manually change item category to other one manually, if PO do not exist.
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Use of cost relevant Item categories L2N and G2N for debit and credit memo

Dear Forum memebers,
For credit and debit memo one of the customised client repot is showing cost value which is not expected for credit and debit memo in the invoice register.
This is due to use of L2N and G2N which are cost relevant item categories.
Why should debit and credit memo item category should be cost relevant.??
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Well if your company do not want to adjust the cost of goods sold when any credit / debit is raised, then yes you can go ahead.
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Edited by: Sai on Nov 18, 2009 7:47 PM

Item Categories Display in Contract

Dear All,
In my contracts
1) In the development I am able to see the item categories ( through F4) assigned to that contract Type (No Restriction).
2) While in Production I am not able to view any Item categories ( through f4) unless I enter material in that line.
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Configuration is checked. All assignment has been made. It is same as development.
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Ashish

Hi Ashish,
I have understood your issue now.
I do not think it is an aauthorzation issue. In item category determination(vov4) for the contact type if you have assigned item categories that should be populated automatically in the contract when you click F4 on item category you are going to get dropdown menu with the concerned item categories.
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Difference between Item categories M and W

What is the difference between the Item Categories ' M ' and ' W ' ?. When & where these item categories are used?

HI,
The item categories M and W are intended for the entry of contract items without
specification of the material number.
Item category M
Recommended for similar materials of the same price. These can be materials with
different material numbers or materials without material master records.
You have set up a contract with your vendor covering various types of writing
paper (lined, squared, blank, two-/four-hole prepunched, etc.). The different types
of paper have the same weight, the same quality, and the same price.
When entering this contract item of category M, you enter the short description,
material group, target quantity, unit of measure, and price, but no material number.
The short description must then be entered in the contract release order (for
example, lined, two-hole prepunched).
You also have the option of releasing materials with a material master record
against this contract item in the release order, provided that the material group and
purchase order unit of measure agree.
Item category W
Recommended for materials belonging to the same material group but with
different prices. Item category W can only be used in value contracts.
You have set up a contract with your vendor for various types of cable. The
contract is to cover all types of cable included in the vendor's price list. However,
the exact type is only determined when a purchase order is created for a certain
cable. Instead of creating one contract item for each type of cable in the vendor's
assortment, you could enter item category W and the appropriate material group
(for example, cable). From the short text, it would then be clear that the contract
item covers all types of cable supplied by the vendor in question. Each release
order issued against this contract would then contain the exact specification of
cable type and quantity (for example, double-shielded coax, 1 meter), and price.
When entering the contract item, you enter only the short text and the material
group. You do not enter the target quantity or price. It is possible to enter
additional conditions. For example, you can enter a discount in the header
conditions if the vendor grants a discount on all POs referencing the contract. The
discount is calculated automatically when a contract release order is created.
The price, the target quantity, and the material number are not specified until you
create a release order. The relevant material master record must be assigned to
the same material group as the contract item referenced. If the contract release
order does not contain a material number, it must have a valid account assignment
(such as a cost center).

Item categories are re-determining based on batch split during delivery

Hello All,
During delivery item categories of bill of materilas are changing based on batch split.
Scenerio: item level bill of materials configured.
Ex: COMPUTER is main item and item category group is LUMP and item category is TAP
but it is relevent for billing as per client requirement
key board, cpu and moniter are bills of materilas item category group is NORM and item category is ZZTA
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That can be shown when we click on batch split button for sub line item (moniter, cpu) category ZZTA
all batch split line items are copied to billing and getting account determination pricng error because of TAN is relevent for billing
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Should TAE item category to be maintained for delivery item categories
currently delivery item categories are configured as shown below
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Here is the scenario:
the client processes debit memo manually and according to some logic item categories with no pricing and billing are determined in the memo with net value zero.
as because the item categories are have no billing type, they are not identified in VF01(done in background job).
requirement is to show the line items in billing.
I have searched VOV7, no item categories exist to which the functionality could be added.
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Kindly suggest the steps.

The new item category can be relevant for billing (with a zero net value) or you can decide that it should not be relevant.
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To be honest, your question is not very clear, don't hesitate to reformulate.

MMR-Item categories

Dear experts,
What is Item category, Item category group, Item usage, Higher level item category? Kindly explain one by one.
What is material type?
Regards
Rakesh

hello, friend.
all of these are used by SAP to determine how the system processes your material. when you create a material (t-code MM01), the item category group could be proposed based on the material type you used, or you may manually specify in the material master data.
you specify in IMG what specific item category the system will propose when SAP sees the material with the item category group. for example, when you create a sales order for a material with item category group NORM, the system will propose item category TAN. it is in the item category (i.e. TAN) that most settings are made (how prices, deliveries, credit management, etc. should be processed).
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hope this helped.
regards.
p.s.
you are encouraged to look at past threads with similar issues, as i am sure that this has already been previously discussed. by checking past threads and avoiding new threads, you help prevent cluttering of the forum.
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In SPRO in defining document types for PR/PO/RFQ/CONTRACT , in link to purchasing req/ document types there are two columns of item categories. why they are given so?

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We startet with a Project worldwide to rollout a global template within sales and distribution and are facing now exactly
the problem with those different order type, item categories and Invoice type.
Our local SAP partner in Brazil told as based on best practise we should have different types.
I checked the customization and it seems I can't use e.g.: the same Order type for Brazil and Switzerland because
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Hi Gaspare Guttadauro,
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Please feel free to revert the forum in case of any doubts.
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Item categories in agreement and requisition incompatible

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I have this error message when i create a requisition with an outline agreement. Can anyone pls help me with this error. I do not know how to configure this.
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Hi ,
I create a supply instruction po with an contract. and i get error massege "Item categories in agreement and requisition incompatible" even the contract not reference to requisition ,Can anyone pls help me with this error. I do not know how to configure this
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what is difference between general item categories group and item categories group in sales org 2 in VA02.
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Hi,
       AS we know,
item cat determined by
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its not mandatory that every item should be relevant for sales,
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and item category is nt only used in SD but also used in MM too.
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raw materials will be procured from vendor , for that process has to raise the request.
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