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Item Category
Purpose
This wiki page will breify discuss about functionality of Item Category in SAP Sales and Distribution transaction.

Introduction
Item category is critical and esstential part of sales order and sales process. It generally controls the behaviour of item
in a sales order, like, pricing, TOR, etc.

Functionalities of Item Category

 Item Type Whether the item is standard or text or value item.

 Completion Rule The rule for establishing when a quotation or

contract is complete.

 Business Data Item Whether business data in the item can be

different to that of the doc header.

 Relevant for billing

 Schedule Line Allowed Items that are relevant for del will
always have schedule lines.

 Order Quantity =1

 Item Relevant for Delivery We need to check this field in item

category TATX.

 Create Delivery Group You use a delivery group to determine

a common delivery date for all
the items that it contains.
Especially used in BOM.

 Determine Cost Indicates whether, during pricing, the system

determines the cost
(stock value) of a sales document item.

 Relevant for weight and volume

 Credit active

 Pricing In the case of text items, however, pricing would

not make sense.
Types of Item Category
The following table will discuss about different type of standard item category available:

Item Category Description Features

BVN Cash Sale

TAB Individual order purchase

G2N Credit memo

TAK Make to order

KBN Consignment fill up

KRN Consignment return

TAQ Extent delivery- BOM

TAS Third party

REN Returns

L2N Debit memo

TAC Configurable material

KEN Consignment issue

KAN Consignment Pickup

TAP Extent delivery higher lever item in BOM

TAE Explanation - BOM

TAW Value Item

AGN Standard item in QT  Pricing, Schedule Line Allowed, Not relevant for billing

TAN Standard item in Order  Pricing, Schedule Line Allowed, Relevant for billing

TANN Free of Charge Item in order  No pricing, Schedule line allowed, not relevant for billing

TATX Text item in Order  No pricing, No schedule lines, relevant for billing
 Text items do not require processing for pricing,
taxes & weight calculations
 Items that are not relevant for del, such as credit
memo requests, do not have schedule lines.
 Usually, items that do not have schedule lines cannot
be copied in to a delivery. Text items are an exception.
 You do not need pricing or del quantities & dates (i.e.
schedule lines) for a text item (item cat: TATX), in the
Item Category Description Features

standard order.

Item Category Determination

Depending on the item category group that you apply & the sales doc type you are processing the system automatically
proposes an item category in the document.

SPRO Path IMG - Sales and Distribution - Sales - Sales Document - Sales Document Item - Assign Item Category

Transaction Code VOV4

Determination Rule

Item Category = Sales Document Type + Item Category Group + Usage + Higher Level Item Category
from material master from preceeding line item

Example

Sales Document Type Item Category Group Usage Higher Level Item Category Default Item Category

OR NORM TAN TANN

OR NORM TAN

OR NORM FREE TAN TANN