Updating Product Categories

Hi,
We are using SRM 5.0, we initially replicated about 400 Product categories, now due to business requirements, we have consolidated them to 200 in ECC. Now How do I pull the changes in to SRM to inactivate/delete the unused product categories. I could not find any delta job for this.
Is there a report or a t-code I can use to fix this? please reply and BTW, we are not using MMID's.
Thanks,
Sreedhar

Hi
<b>Please go through these pointers -></b>
how to delete Product Category ?
Re: How to link product category to material group
delete products
Re: Urgent: Replicating Delta Product categories
/people/marcin.gajewski/blog/2007/02/05/how-to-replicate-material-master-from-r3-to-srm
Hope this will help.
Regards
- Atul

Similar Messages

How to automatically update products and product categories?

Hi friends
How to automatically update products and product categories.Is it possible?
regards
venkat

Hi,
The delta load does not work for product categories but only products.So to bring in the new product categories into SRM you will need to start the load of the object DNL_CUST_PROD1 again.
The CRM middleware allows the following two methods for replication.
-Initial loads:
Launched manually (R3AS), the objects (customizing or business) are replicated between SRM and R/3, according to the filters you've put on the object (R3AC1 for Business objects like MATERIAL, R3AC3 for customizing objects like DNL_CUST_PROD0 and 1).
-Delta loads:
This option is only possible for Business objects, which is the case of MATERIAL.
With this option a daemon is launched between the 2 servers. Every modification made on an object on SRM or R/3 is transfered as soon as this object is contained in the filter retrictions (creation and/or modification). this is done through transaction R3AC4.
Also refer the foll thread:
Material group from R/3 to COMM_CATEGORY (SRM)
Related notes : OSS notes 872819 and 720819.
BR,
Disha.
DO reward points for helpful answers.

Multiple Local Product Categories for One ECC Material Group

Hello experts,
I have a question regarding Product Categories. I am using an Extended Classic Scenario and so, I retrieve Material Groups from the backend. Nevertheless, in order to have a more accurate split than ECC Material Groups in SRM, I would like to create local Product Categories which point on the same ECC Material Group. Eg. :
ECC Material Group
- SRM Product Category 1
- SRM Product Category 2
I saw that I can create this kind of structure in COMM_HIERARCHY and I updated it in the PPOMA_BBP (I set * for backend and for SRM).
Nevertheless, when I create a SC, I can not find the local Product Categories I created?
Do you know how I could process?
Thanks for your help
Patrick

Hi Patrick,
Looks like you got confused in understanding the concept.
You can not create a Local product category (material group) from a back end product category.
You can have both backend R/3 material groups and local product categoris (material groups) parallelly.
That means in COMM_HIERARCHY for R3MATCLASS hierarchy you have two nodes created under that, one for backend material groups and the other for local material groups.
In stand alone scenario or de-coupled scenario you can use local product categories and not in Extended classic and Classic scenarios.
For accessing a local product category you should have a local P.Org, local P.Group and the users should be assigned to these local P.Orgs or P.groups.
If you have such a setting in your org. structure then you can create S.Cs for local Product categories and local materials.
Hope this makes you more clear in understanding the issue.
Clarifications are welcome.
Award points for helpful answers.
Rgds,
Teja

SMQ2, Product Categories and Materials

Hello,
I am working on SRM 5.0 in ECS and I have an issue regarding the update of Product Categories from ECC.
Actually, the initial load worked properly but the update does not work. In SRM, when I look at SMQ2 queue list, I have many entries, most of them concern Material Master replication. So my first interrogation is: I do not use Material Master in SRM, so why do I find some entries linked to Material Masters in this queue list? Is there any mean to avoid this to occur?
My second interrogation is about the processing of SMQ2 queue list: What do I have to do in order to see the different entries processed automatically (for Product Categories update)?
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Patrick

Hi,
There is no delta replication/update available in SRM for PORDUCT CATEGORIES but only for PRODUCTS(material).To update the Product categories or bring in new categories,you need to run the initial load again thru trasnc R3AS.
BR,
Disha.
Do reward points for useful answers.

Subsequent addition to new product categories of supplier list

Hi,
Business Requirement:
An existing supplier, for whom a contact person is already created and is having a valid user ID and password, now wants to send his requests to include him in the supplier list for some more product categories.
Supplier selects some more product categories in a webpage of portal.
System sends a link to supplier's email, which on clicking, will take him to a page where he can enter the answers to questionnaires assigned to the product categories(s) selected by him.
Buyer verifies the answers and subsequently add him to some more product categories in the supplier list or rejects the request submitted by the supplier.
Question:
1. We would like to know, what is standard business process available in SAP which is "SOMEWHAT" similar to above requirement.
2. If available, Which (SICF) service needs to be used for this? or what settings/configurations are required to achieve this.
Thanks.
Ganapathi
Details: SRM7.0 SP07, ECC Ehp4, Using MM-SUS.

Any update please.

Urgent: Replicating Delta Product categories

Our users have requested to replicate additional product categories from R/3 to EBP system. Do we need to run R3AS (Initial download-DNL_CUST_PROD1)? Is there any delta mechanism available for product categories?
Regards
AS

Hi Alok,
there is no delta flow (like for materials) for product categories.
So yes, you need to run the initial download on DNL_CUST_PROD1 again.
This will update the existing hierarchy (by creating new categories and changing existing ones).
Rgds
Christophe
PS: please reward points for helpfull answers

Updating product revenue close date based off opportunity close date

We do not use the product revenue close date, only the opportunity close date. We need to get the fiscal month of the opportunity close date but we have several reports the need to use the opportunity product history area and that does not contain the fiscal month for the opportunity. If we did a combined report, we cannot offer the user any prompts.
Does anyone know how to get the opportunity close date fiscal month from the opportunity products area? Is there a way to update the product revenue close date when the opportunity close date it updated?
Thanks

Hi David,
In the universe you describe you have the opportunity 'Close Date'. Use a 'case-when' expression to create the 'Fiscal Month' you need.
Other than that you can use the JoinFieldValue function in the application to retrieve the opty close date, but that will require you to update product revenue for it to trigger which probably won't work for you.
Good luck.

Error - Update Product Data in Solution Manager

Hello,
We are currently downloading the Enhancement Package 4 in SOLMAN via Maintenance Optimizer, however, after choosing the Technical Usages in step 2.1, it shows an error in step 2.2 (Select OS/DB Dependent Files):
Error : Update Product Data in Solution Manager
Has anyone encountered the same problem? Would it be fine to continue on the next step after selecting the files which you need for your operating system-database combination.
Any information is highly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi Jaypee,
Check guide How-To Install EHP4- A practical guide. Solution of this problem is documented there. you can download it from http://service.sap.com/erp-ehp
Extract from this guide for this problem:
Make sure that you update the product data in SAP Solution Manager. This is described in SAP Note 1277035 which is referenced from the collective SAP Note 1122966. If you do not update the product data, you might get an error message after the stack calculation. The message text explains the problem in more detail.
Thanks
Sunny

ABAP report for Active Product Categories by Vendor

Hi,
I have been trying to write an ABAP report in SRM to list all vendors attached to active product categories. My problem is identifying the active product categories. Can anyone help me identify these?
Regards,
Conor

Some alternative is in KSB1 (Cost center line item report) - you can change the layout and include offsetting account and its text.
But, in vendor line item report, if you want vendor number, vendor number, GL account number (offsetting) account and its text, then you should go with abap development.
Have a look at the following note, if really serves your purpose.
Note 1504612 - Line items: Offsetting account info (BAdI FI_ITEMS_CH_DATA)

Report to pull multiple Product Categories/Organizational Units per project

Hi Experts,
We are facing the following issue.
We have created a Project and have associated multiple Product Category & Organization to this project, many to One relationship. This we have achieved through customization. When we are pulling report for this project through Reports-> Project Summary Extract. Itu2019s giving us only one Product Category & one Org Unit per Project. The business wants us to pull all the Org Units & the Product categories associated with the Project, when we are displaying the report. This org units & product categories will be shown in Org Unit & Product category columns respectively separated by commas.
Looking forward for your help.
Thanks,
Ritik

Hi Vikram,
We have not created any custom fields neither for the Product Categories nor for the Org Unit/Business Unit(T1.BUSINESS_UNIT_OBJECT_NAME). These two fields are already there in the Result fields for the report Project Summary Extract . I am just looking for some way to pull all the Product categories & Business Units associated with the project in the Product Categories column & in Business Unit column respectively separated by comma or show it as in example 2 given below(in multi rows).
e.g. 1:
Project:     Product Categories:
PROJ1   -> PC1,PC2,PC3
Or
e.g. 2:
Project:      Product Categories:
PROJ1        ->                           PC1
PROJ1     ->                    PC2
PROJ1     ->                             PC3
I have already copied the existing query & modified it to achieve the above, but still this is not working. Currently i am querying FCI_MAS_INTERNAL_CAT for Product Categories & FCI_PRO_PROJECTS for projects.
Can you please provide me any sample query to achieve this functionality. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ritik

Registration of Suppliers to New Product Categories

Hi,
As we have seen, during registration of new suppliers, system offers a list of product categories to select. System sends questionnaires related to the selected product categories, to prospective supplier's email ID. The supplier submits answers to these question. The buyer will scrutinize the details, registers him as supplier and also maintains supplier list for the product categories which he has requested.
Now the supplier is interested in some more product categories. So he has to select some more product categories. The system should send him a questionnaires for those product category. The buyer will scrutinize the answers submitted by the supplier and maintains supplier list for those product categories.
How to map this scenario in standard SAP?
Ganapathi

Hi Ganapathi
Nikhil is correct.
i assume that supplier want to register some more product category which is not in the system . sorry if i understood wrong.
or it is just understanding between buyer and supplier.
There is no fixed rule that whatever supplier register the product category and he will receive the PO or contract.
It is understanding between Buyer and Supplier what type of product category supplier expert to do service for the purchase organisation.
Whatever product category is existed in the ROS system the same only can be registered by the Supplier.
Because purchase organisation uses only some product category which they wants for their organisation.
For ex
step 1:-BREAKS product category - TVS registerd in the ROS system and become supplier
step 2:- again TVS supplier want to add WHEELS product category ? and expects a questionaire for WHEELS from the Purchase organisation?
Muthu

Cannot see list of Product Categories in Shopping Cart entry screen

Hi All,
I would appreciate it if someone could help me with this issue.
Although I appear to have sucessfully replicated the backend R3 Mat Groups into SRM Product Categories, as I can see them in the hierachy screen, i.e. Hierachy ID R3MATCLASS in trans code COMM_HIERARCHY, they are not appearing in my Shopping Cart entry screen Product Categories drop down.
I have looked in Org structure maintanance and can see two things that may be the root causes:
(a) In 'Exended Attributes', if I select the Source System, I do not get the option to list the product categories in the match code box
(b). In the 'check' screem, the system is displaying the message 'Attribute ITS_DEST not yet defined'
Any feedback on how I can pull in the groups during cart entry would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve

Hi Kathirvel,
I am not sure if this workaround is correct, but rather than using trans code BDLS as you suggested, I defined the logical system 'ABC' . This logical system was the assigned as a target system in 'Assignment of Logical Systems' under the product category customisation (table COMV_LOGSYS_MAP)
These changes subsequently allowed the drop down on the Org structure when selecting a Product Category in extended attributes, therefore making the list available in the web front end.
The IMG help text for COMV_LOGSYS_MAP says:
Case 1
You have created the categories in your test system. They therefore have the logical system <SYSTEM_TEST>. So that the categories can also be changed once they have been transported into the production system, the categories must have the logical system <SYSTEM_PROD> in the target system.
Maintain the following entry:
Source <SYSTEM_TEST>
Target <SYSTEM_PROD>
The logical system of the categories will be changed from <SYSTEM_TEST> to <SYSTEM_PROD>.
This appears to have resolved the issue. I would be interested to hear what you think,
Many thanks , Steve,

CCM 2.0: Alphabetic sorting of product categories

Hi,
We are using CCM 2.0. I am interesting in influencing the sorting of product categories during a catalog search. We use both the hierarchy and the index search.
It seems that the product categories are sorted by the product category number. We would prefer to provide an alphabetic sorting of product category description to the employees.
Can we influence this? and if so how?
Your reply is highly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Martijn
P.S. Edit Catalogs > tab Content > Radio button "Sort by" ID or Description keeps jumping back to ID as default even after saving.
Message was edited by: M. Roggeband

Hi Martijn
Unfortunately there is no simple way to influence the sorting of categories in the hierarchy search. We are focusing the same problem. Due to this problem we recently wrote an OSS-Call to SAP. They replied that this system behavior (sort by category-id) is standard and we should either modify our system or send a customer request. We are doing both. Last week I sent a customer request to SAP and soon we will try to modify the method SORT_CATEGORY_LIST in an appropriate way.
If you think SAP should solve this problem, please send a customer request to SAP too. The more requests they get the better chance we have, that they will do something.
Kind regards
Reto

3056a will not update. Product update turned on. Click on eprint, it tells you to update product.

When I click on the eprint button, it asks me if I want to turn eprint on, I say yes. It tells me to turn on auto update I say yes. It then tells me to update product. I click yes, and nothing happens. It still sys Update product. I looked in the help pages, and it says to click on the eprint button, and scroll down to update, but my printer does not have this option in it's menu. Like I said, when I click on the eprint button it only tells me to update, it doesn't actually do it, or give me a manual update option. Please help me to update this thing so I can start eprinting! Oh, and it is connected to my network with internet, and all of my computers can print to it.
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Please refer to the below thread regarding this issue:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/ePrint-Print-Apps-Mobile/Deskjet-3050A-3056A-quot-Please-Upgrade-Produc...
Jon-W
I work on behalf of HP
Please click “Accept as Solution ” on the post that solves your issue to help others find the solution.
Click the KUDOS STAR on the left to say “Thanks” for helping!

Determination of G/L using Product Categories

Hi,
I'm looking to load the full UNSPSC tree into SRM, but from my testing, after mapping the level 1 product category to the various account assignment types and the relevant G\L accounts, I cannot see the G\L mapping for the lower levels (2-4)of the product category when creating a shopping cart. Should the lower levels inherit the same G\L account to account assignment mapping as level 1 or should i use a BADI to define a different logic for determining the G/L account?

I can confirm that when mapping G/L account to Product categories using the UNSPSC schema, by entering 1* all subordinate levels of that UNSPSC code will also adopt the same G/L mapping.

Updating Product Categories

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for