What is the difference Item and Header condition?

Question

In Condition type screen, inside Control data1 section there are two fields Header Condition and Item condition. What is the relevance of these two fields and what is the diference between them?
Thanks In Advance
Prakash

Answer 1

HI
Header condition as the name suggests is a condition type which is applied at the header level only. The header condition is always manual and no condition record can be maintained for this. There is no access sequence for the header condition. When you select a header condition in a sales order in pricing and give the rate for the same then this rate will be applicable for the whole document that is for all the items. In some cases it works proportionately. Like suppose you have header freight condition type 'HD00'. You have multiple line items in the sales order. When you give a rate for the same then it will be distributed proportionately among the line items depending upon the weight or basic price.
Std SAP header condition types:
HA00 - Percentage discount
HB00 - Discount (Value)
HD00 - Freight
HM00 - Order value
RD00 - Weight discount
ITEM CONDTION:
Item conditions as the name suggests are given at the item level only. In the same sales order if there are 2 line items then, for the line item 10, the condition types may be different and for the line item 20 there may be different condition types. Like for eg: Discounts, say material discount 'K004". This condition type may be applicable for line item 10 and for the line item 20, it may not be applicable.
Std SAP item condition types:
PR00 - basic price
K007 - customer discount
K005 - customer/material discount
KF00 - freight
So basically, header condition applies to all line items in the document and the item conditions are applicable at the line item level.
When you double click on a condition type in t.code V/06, there in the section "Changes which can be made" here you will see options like:
header condition - if you tick the condition type becomes header condition
Item condition - if you tick this then condition type becomes item condition.
manual entries
delete
amount / percent
value
qty relation
calculation type
If a condition type is applicable for all items in the document then it is better to select the condition type as header as it will save the item.Reward points if solution helps.