Stock Cat. group in Location master

Hello,
Could somebody please let me know how the field "Stock Cat. Group" is used in the location master under the SNP tab.
Thanks,

Hi Visu,
Let me ask you the following question:
We have a quarantine (resticted-use ) stock which:
1. Have to be deployed.
2. Must not be seen as a Stock On Hand (in /sapapo/sdp94).
Its category is CK.
What's gonna happen if we put category CK to category group X assigned to the ATD Receipt Cat. Grp in the location product master and exclude it from the category group Y assigned to the Stock Cat. Grp? Will that help us to achieve the requirement above?
Regards,
Alper
Edited by: Alper Myumyun on Nov 5, 2008 10:52 PM

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I need clarification on the following points.
1. In the Materail MAster MM02 Creation screen
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Item category group from material master
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Procedure
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I want to use the stock category group to do this scenario:
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I think your answer involves macros more than PA settings.
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There may be requirement to withdraw the material from different stocks for goods issues and stock transfers based on some criteria or strategies. To meet this requirement in SAP we have stock determination strategies which determine how and when the material should be withdrawn, and from which storage locations and stocks. We can include the following stocks for the purpose of stock determination: unrestricted-use stock u2022 vendor consignment stock u2022 pipeline material u2022 sales order stock u2022 project stock.
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Considerting the remaining answers above, Please have a look:
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