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SAP ERP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD):Different business scenarios and Sales BOMtechniques for header and item level stockand prices

Posted by ' MoazzaM ' Sep 6, 2013Dear Fellows

I have been continuously contributing in SD forums from last year and I have seen many threads about SalesBOM. Sometime users want to modify sales BOM as per their own business scenarios so here I am going toexplain how sales BOM helps us to meet different requirements.Here, I assume that you know how Sales BOM, item category, schedule line category and copy control worksin SD process.If you google with search term "Sales Bom in SAP SD" system will give you a lot of information about standardsettings of sales BOM by using item category group ERLA and LUMF. This information can be found onfollowing link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dd/560234545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm

In standard settings you can control pricing, inventory and delivery related indicator either on main item levelor sub item level. If you use ERLA item category group in finished goods material master data, it will controlpricing and inventory at header level and sub items will work as text items. For sub item level control you useitem category group LUMF.A very common and easy to understand example which SAP's standard documents have used is sale ofa computer. In a computer sale, we sell it with brand name and specification. For instance if we sell a Dellpentium 4 desktop computer, it will have a mouse, keyboard, monitor and speakers but as a whole this is aDell pentium 4 PC. So we will enter only one material in sale order with material description DELL Pentium 4Desktop PC and system will determine all compnents automatically.Sometime we get some requirements which SAP standard item categories and schedule line categories cannotmeet. So we need to understand the basic concepts of item categories and schedule line categories andchange them to fulfill our requirement. Let me explain with some real business scenarios.

Scenario 1: In SAP free goods standard settings we can maintain 1 free good material against 1 main itemi.e. there is 1:1 combination. We can play with material's quantity but not with number of materials. If we geta requirement from client that if customer buys 5 quantity of material A then he will get 1 quantity of materialB then it can be fulfill with standard free goods by maintaining it in VBN1. But if customer will get 1 quantityof material B and 1 quantity of material C on buying 1 quantity of material A then we can get this done byusing Sales BOM.The settings for main item and sub item will be as follows. I am assuming that you want tocumulate cost prices of sub items in main item at the time of billing. If you don't want this then simply dont mark

SAP ERP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD): Different business scenarios and Sales BOM techniques forheader and item level stock and prices


the check box in copy control from delivery to billing at item level for cumulate cost. Also maintain BOM formaster data in CS01 with usage 5.

Main Item Settings

Billing Relevance APricing XSructure Scope AApplication SD01Determin Cost CheckSchdule line Allowed Check

Standard Shedule line category (CP) is used and Item Category Group in Material master sales view is Z001which is customized for free goods main item materials. I will be using same material group for other scenariosas well.

Sub Item Setting

Billing Relevance BlankPricing BlankSructure Scope BlankApplication BlankDetermin Cost CheckSchdule line Allowed Check

Standard Shedule line category (CP) is used and Item Category Group in Material master sales view is NORM.

Item Category Assignment

SaTy ItCGr Usg. HLevItca DfItcZMZM NORM ZTS1 ZTS2ZMZM Z001 ZTS1ZMZM NORM TAN

Here ZMZM is my order type and Z001 is material group which I have maintained only in main item material'ssales view field Item category group from material master (MVKE-MTPOS). Here no need to maintain inGeneral item category group (MARA-MTPOS_MARA). ZTS1 is main item and ZTS2 is sub Item.



Scenario 2: Lets take another example of a split air conditioner. We are selling split air conditioners tocustomers and producing them in our plant. In split air conditioner Indoor, outdoor and Remote control arethree separate materials. We sell split air conditioner in finished goods with capacity and brand name like 1Ton Samsung AC 2 Ton Mitsubishi AC and we can also sell components individually. So we need to maintainprices at both level header and item. Here we will maintain stock at item level and price at item and headerboth. If we are selling a whole package of split air conditioner then it will be at header level and if we are sellingonly one component then there will be individual price of component.

When we are selling a whole package

Main Item

Billing Relevance APricing XSructure Scope AApplication SD01Determin Cost CheckSchdule line Allowed Check

For this You have to use schedule line CT with no movement type and relevant for delivery if you want to usedelivery related billing and copy the main item in delivery document. If you dont want to copy it in delivery thenyou can simply use CD shedule line category for main item but for this you have to use order related billing. It isgood to copy main item in delivery just like a text item.

Sub Item

Billing Relevance BlankPricing BlankSructure Scope BlankApplication BlankDetermin Cost CheckSchdule line Allowed Check

For Sub item we can use CP or CN as per your requirement.

Item Category Assignment

SaTy ItCGr Usg. HLevItca DfItcZMZM NORM ZTS3 ZTS4ZMZM Z001 ZTS3



ZMZM NORM TAN

When we are selling a component

When you will enter compnent material in order, system will determin normal item category TAN and with billingand pricing activated and price will be determined from condition record which you have maintained for it. Soyou can sell a whole package or component in same order type.

Scenario 3: If you are dealing with some business process in which you need to maintain multi level BOMsthen you can achieve this by changing item category settings of main item and assignment of item categories.I don't have any real business scenario but lets assume we are selling comupters and in our company weare maintaining BOMs for computers and CPU separately. If we are selling a desktop computer then systemwill explode BOM of Dell 780 Computer in which we have maintained Monitor, CPU, Key Board, Mouseand Speakers materials and for CPU we have another BOM with Mother Board, Power Supply, Hard Driveand Super drive etc. Now when we enter Dell 780 material system will explode two BOMs. Prices will bemaintained for Computer (Exluding CPU). For CPU we will maintain seprate price. Stock and deliveries will bemaintain at sub item level.From configuration point of view there will two differences from scenario 2.

Main ITem

Billing Relevance APricing XSructure Scope BApplication SD01Determin Cost CheckSchdule line Allowed Check

Sub Item settings and schedule line settings will be same as in scenario 2.Item Category Assignment.ZMZM NORM TANZMZM NORM ZTS5 ZTS6ZMZM NORM ZTS6 ZTS6ZMZM Z001 ZTS5ZMZM Z001 ZTS5 ZTS5

With this you can sell whole package and also compnents separately.

Note:



These are some basics and most common business processes and I have shared these just to give you anidea. You can modify them as epr your scenario. It is all about playing with item category and schedule linesettings. If you have some other BOM related business scenario or process which you are not able to configurewith sales BOM, you can post your scenario in comment and let me help you in that.There are many other controls like not to change quantity or material of sub items, copy whole package indelivery or allow single items too, creating automatic PR (third party sale) and maintain prices for compnentsand whole package etc. I am not going in detail of these as we can find a lot of links in SCN describing thesecontrols.Value addition comments and suggestions will be highly appriciated. TW Typewriter if there is any otherbusiness scenario or example in your mind please share with me.

Thank$ 10023 Views Tags: sd, enterprise_resource_planning, bom_pricing;, bom_process,sap_erp_sales_and_distribution

' MoazzaM 'Oct 1, 2014 12:23 PMvinod reddy Haresh Panara Thank you guys for appreciating this effort.

Haresh PanaraOct 1, 2014 6:26 AMThanks, Great Work, Nicely explain, Very userful document.

Once again thanks for sharing such useful document.

Regards,Haresh

vinod reddySep 30, 2014 3:53 PMHi Moazzam,

Thanks for making your time and efforts in making a good document as always.

Regards,

' MoazzaM ' in response to Dibyendu Patra on page 6Sep 30, 2014 2:13 PMThank you Dev for such valueable remarks. Really obliged.



Thank$

Dibyendu PatraSep 30, 2014 7:24 AMGood document.. I had given a PDF for this document to my SD consultant. His review was 5 star and yes youdeserve it. Keep sharing knowledge..

' MoazzaM ' in response to Shashi Thakur on page 6Mar 5, 2014 9:30 AMHi

This is valueable compliment for me. Thank you Shashi Thakur

Thank$

Shashi ThakurMar 5, 2014 7:56 AMExcellent Blog MoazzaM,

I have read it multiple times..Keep writing.

zaheer zaidi in response to TW Typewriter on page 6Mar 4, 2014 11:42 AMTW,

I didn't take any item cat group as a reference because there is not much setting behind in the standard itemcat groups.

TW Typewriter in response to zaheer zaidi on page 6Mar 3, 2014 5:36 PMzaheer,

At the initial phase of the career, when practicing in IDES, test systems, then configure as much as you can!Play with the system - tear it apart and then assemble it again!

But while doing this keep your mind, think what each block signifies both from business and technical points ofview. If I create something what would be the effort vs. benefit.

Yes, you are correct, we should not change standard configuration objects like sales document type, itemcategories etc.

Related to item category group - you created new ZORM but how did you create it? What did you take asreference item cat group?

zaheer zaidi in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 7



Mar 3, 2014 12:16 PMyes you are right there is no setting behind the standard item cat groups and we can use them.

' MoazzaM ' in response to zaheer zaidi on page 7Mar 3, 2014 10:27 AMHi

You are right about item categories and document types but for item category group we can use standardone for determination for ouw own item categories and document types. There is no settings in NORM itemcategory group so you can use it but there many settings and control parameters in TAN or OR and that is whyit is recommended that you create a separate one for your use.

Thank$

zaheer zaidi in response to TW Typewriter on page 7Mar 3, 2014 10:15 AMHi TW,

I have plan to create custom item categories to avoid touching standards ones because it is not recommendedto change the standard sales doc types, item cat etc. That is the reason I have created custom item cat groups.Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks

TW Typewriter in response to zaheer zaidi on page 8Mar 3, 2014 7:06 AMzaheer,

In your case, you could have also used the standard item category group - ERLA and NORM (in place ofZORM, XORM)

In the material master record the item category groups do not have to be changed to your custom itemcategory groups (if material created already).

If you want to restrict these materials ONLY to this process (and no other sales process) then also you arerestricting as the sales document type is custom (and not OR etc.) so with standard item category groups andcustom doc type it could have been achieved.

Thanks for sharing!

TW Typewriter in response to Phanikumar V on page 8Mar 3, 2014 7:01 AMPhani,



zaheer used ZORM as item category group for the main item. (and not the standard ERLA)Phanikumar V in response to zaheer zaidi on page 8

Mar 3, 2014 4:52 AM""" Created 2 item category groups zorm and xorm. I used zorm in the material master of main item and for subitems I used xorm as the item category group""""

For The Main Item you used NORM But In Header level BOMs we will use ERLA--How you managed??

Phanikumar

zaheer zaidi in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 9Mar 3, 2014 12:10 AMHiThat is the solution of the problem which I had posted few days ago about BOM. I would like to share it here inthis forum so people can benefit from it.

There is a main item HP Laptop. Sub items can be sold with the main items or as an individual component. Ifsub items are part of HP laptop then the main items HP Laptop will be priced and sub item will not be pricedbut price is applied in case if the sub items are sold individually.

Here are the steps I followed to implement this business scenario.I have created following main and sub materials.

Main ItemsMaterial: lPHP(Laptop HP), mat group LAPTOP, sales mat group HP

Sub ItemsMaterial: COREI3 (Corei3 Processor)Material: Mhp17 (Monitor HP 17)Material: MA4WIRELESS (A4 tech wireless laptop mouse)Material: KYBLAPTOP (Keyboard Laptop)Material: HDDRLP500 (Hard drive 500 GB)Material: RAM1GB (RAM 1GB)

1, Created a new sales document type zor12, Created 2 item category groups zorm and xorm. I used zorm in the material master of main item and for subitems I used xorm as the item category group.3, Configured item categories TAQ for pricing, TAN for pricing and TAE is not relevant for pricing.

I have done the item category determination for the main and sub items.Main item: Sales doc type (ZOR1), Item category group ( ZORM) default Item category (TAQ)



Sub item: Sales doc type (ZOR1), Item category group ( XORM), higher level item category(TAQ) default Itemcategory (TAE)

For main item the item category TAQ will be determined which is applicable for pricing and for sub items itemcat TAE will be determined which is not relevant for pricing.

If the sub items are sold individually then the item cat determination rule is as follow

Sales doc type (Zor1), item cat group (XORM) default item cat (TAN)

In the above condition item cat TAN will be determined for sub items and it is now relevant for pricing so nowsub items can be sold as an individual component as well.

I have created material BOM and its working fine.

Thank you Moazzam and TW for the help.

Suresh SaiFeb 25, 2014 11:40 AMAwesome, Great work...Keep it up!!!! Thanks fr sharing.

zaheer zaidi in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 9Feb 25, 2014 10:54 AMThank you Moazzam and TW.

' MoazzaM 'Feb 25, 2014 6:12 AMzaheer zaidi

TW has already answered to all of your queries and TW is right for BOM usages. I hope you got the idea howwe can use BOM functioanlity in your business process. If you need some clarification or help you can comehere again.

Thank$

Phanikumar V in response to zaheer zaidi on page 10Feb 25, 2014 5:33 AMDear Zaheer,

For this requirement you can go ahead with Variant configuration( same material with Different variants)--Hopethis helps you..

Pl follow --http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/print46c/en/data/pdf/lovc/lovc.pdf



Phanikumar

TW Typewriter in response to zaheer zaidi on page 10Feb 25, 2014 5:30 AMzaheer,

Yes, you can have BOM with the main and sub items you have mentioned!

For all of these materials, material master record has to be created.

Please note - Next step - BOM (master) has to be created in CS01 before it can be used in the sales order.

That means the material - main item and subitem combination is already predefined in SAP as master data.Then the same is used in sales transactions.

As explained in this document, the configuration in item category and item category determination have to bedone.

zaheer zaidi in response to TW Typewriter on page 11Feb 24, 2014 11:58 PMHi TW,

Have a look to this scenario.

Accessories (can be sold as an individual piece or as a part of PC)

IBU Intel Based CPUABU AMD Based CPUM17 17 MonitorsM19 19 MonitorsWM Wired MouseLM Wireless MouseWKB Wired KeyboardLKB Wireless Keyboard

Materials which will be sold in a package987655 ABC Graphic Desktop765432 ABC Portable Laptop987654 ABC Performance DesktopIn the above scenario I am creating two material groups

1, Desktop2, Laptops

Three main items



1, Graphic Desktop 2, ABC Portable Laptop3, ABC Performance Desktop

Eight sub items which can be sold as a part of main items in BOM or as an individual piece if necessary

1. IBU Intel Based CPU2. ABU AMD Based CPU3. M17 17 Monitors4. M19 19 Monitors5. WM Wired Mouse6. LM Wireless Mouse7. WKB Wired Keyboard8. LKB Wireless Keyboard

Do you think this above configuration approach is right?

Thanks..

zaheer zaidi in response to TW Typewriter on page 11Feb 24, 2014 10:52 PM

You are right, Thanks TW

TW Typewriter in response to zaheer zaidi on page 11Feb 24, 2014 7:22 PMHi zaheer,

No it is not possible! Also, if there is one mmr for i3, i5 and i7; then how would you maintain stock for these 3products (materials) in SAP?

zaheer zaidi in response to TW Typewriter on page 11Feb 24, 2014 4:31 PMHi TW,

No, there is only one material master which is CPU and I am trying not to create material master for i3, i5 andi7 and use sales material group for further control, is it possible?

TW Typewriter in response to zaheer zaidi on page 11Feb 24, 2014 2:27 PMzaheer,

MoazzaM also touched upon this point - For core i3, i5 and i7, are 3 different material master records createdin SAP?

Do you want to have different pricing for each of the above materials?

zaheer zaidi in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 12



Feb 24, 2014 1:49 PMHi Moazzam,

Thanks for your reply. You are absolutely right the item category controls what a bill of material can do in asales order. Let's come to the sales material groups. As I wrote you before, if there is a material called CPUand it has different types core i3, i5 and i7 and it is Intel based CPU. In this scenario if I create a materialCPU and assign it a material group Intel (Basic data 1 view) and then for further classification I use the salesmaterial groups (sales org 2 view) then how can I control pricing to the extent of sales material groups becausefor pricing the only field which is available in the field catalog is MVGR1 which is material group 1 and for othermaterial groups there is no option in the field catalog.

Thanks..

' MoazzaM ' in response to zaheer zaidi on page 12Feb 24, 2014 12:16 PMHi Zaheer

Yes this is possible. In SAP we don' maintain two materials for one physical material. We can sell it as partof BOM or as separate item in same sale order. Differnece will be there in item categories. With BOM it willbehave like sub item and as separate material it will come in TAN like normal item.

Thank$

' MoazzaM ' in response to Jayshree Pillai on page 13Feb 24, 2014 12:13 PMThank you Jayshree. Actually as you know English is not my primary language so I can't write difficultsenteces. I always try to use simple and easy words and sentences so that people like me can understand it

easily

Thank$

' MoazzaM ' in response to TW Typewriter on page 13Feb 24, 2014 12:12 PMDear TW

There are always many ways to do one thing. My point was that if main item is required only for printing inbilling then we can mark it not relevant for billing and in invoice print out we can get a link to sales order andget its price from there.Your point is also valid and we can achieve this requirement from that as well. Thank you for your valueaddition comment.

Thank$

zaheer zaidi



Feb 24, 2014 9:59 AMHi Moazzam,

Nice and simple explanation about BOM. I have one scenario, suppose there are different types of CPU forexample Intel core 2 duo, core i3, core i5, core i7. These CPUs can be sold as a part of PC or as an individualpieces. Is it possible to maintain just one material as CPU and further classify it using sales material groups insales org2 view in material master and then use it as main or sub item as per requirement?

Jayshree PillaiFeb 24, 2014 9:15 AMThank you Moazzam!!

Special mention of your language and sentence formations, it makes it so easy to understand andcomprehend.Also, business examples are very helpful.

Sundar SFeb 24, 2014 7:58 AM

Good Job Moazzam

TW Typewriter in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 13Feb 24, 2014 6:33 AMMoazzaM,

Interesting comment related to the requirement - Main item is set not relevant for billing & print out of billingdocument (i assume it is bill OR is it sales order, delivery?)

When main item is set not relevant for billing, then this does not populate in the billing document but in theprintout of bill, you have the main item. There is an inconsistency between bill in SAP and its printout. Pleaseconfirm & why so?

By keeping pricing as statistical in the main item, you could have populated it in the billing document also.

' MoazzaM ' in response to Patrick Imhen on page 13Feb 24, 2014 6:14 AMHi

Thank you for your compliment.For your query posting values of sub items to different revenues account is something I never worked on it. Wecan have value of main item just for statistic purpose or print purpose. For this you just need to make main itemnot relevant for billing. Get its price from sale order in your print smartform of invoice.For more and better suggestions you may post it as a discussion in SD forum.

Thank$



Patrick ImhenFeb 22, 2014 1:02 PMWelldone Mozzam for your blog!

I am currently faced with a bit different scenario of BOM in Sales Order. In this case, my client wants that whenthe Invoice is released to FI, only the Values for the Sub-Items should post to their Revenue Accounts and theirrespective Profit Centers while the Value at the Main-Item will only be statistical for Printout. That is if you haveSub-Item "A" (Revenue Account 40000001) with value $100, "B" (Revenue Account 40000002) with value$70, "C" (Revenue Account 40000003) with $30. So when invoice is released to FI, these values will go to theirrespective Revenue Account and Profit Centers while the Main-item ZZ will only be statistical for printout.

How can this be achieved?

Regards,

Patrick

' MoazzaM ' in response to R Sgr on page 14Feb 6, 2014 8:14 AMDear R Sgr

Thank you for your suggestion. Topic of this blog is use of sales BOM as per business scenarios and I tryied toexplain that. How does item category explode in sales BOM is a different topic and a user who is working withsales BOM should know explosion of item categories.

From you comment it looks like you also know how item category explodes and determines in SD

Thank$

R SgrFeb 5, 2014 1:12 PMDear MoazzaM,The extent of the explosion of BOM depends upon the Item Categ and not Item Categ Gr. As TW Typewriterrightly said that item categ gr is only a tool to pick the correct Item Category. So I my views instead ofemphasizing on Itm Categ gr you should have explained that how Item Categ determines the extent of BOMexplosion.Hope you don't mind.Thanks.

' MoazzaM ' in response to Santosh Panda on page 15Jan 27, 2014 5:38 AMHi Santosh

This can be done with ABAP customizing. There would be a lot of ABAP work involve in it. Z table and andcode in MV45AFZZ program. Sales BOM wont support this scenario.



Thank$

Santosh PandaJan 26, 2014 6:39 PMHi Moazzam,

Great,its really nice.But I want to know if my company wants to provide free one material with 3 different materials.for example:-If u buy material A,material B and material C then Material D will be free.Could you help me for this.How to configure this?

' MoazzaM ' in response to ratnam sri on page 15Dec 19, 2013 8:20 AMHi ratnam sri

Thank you for your nice remarks.

Thank$

' MoazzaM ' in response to Hussain Poonawalla on page 15Dec 19, 2013 8:20 AMThank you my friend Hussain Poonawalla

Thank$

Hussain PoonawallaDec 18, 2013 3:46 PMGreat, its helpful!

ratnam sriDec 18, 2013 1:35 PMHi Moazzam,

Good document and nicely explained.Keep posting...

RegardsRatnamsri

' MoazzaM ' in response to Ramanjaneyulu Korrapati on page 16Nov 4, 2013 12:19 PMThank you Raman for this compliment.



Thank$

Ramanjaneyulu KorrapatiNov 4, 2013 11:37 AMGreat explanation with scenarios about BOM Techniques. Thanks for your efforts.

ThanksRaman

' MoazzaM ' in response to Srinu S on page 16Oct 29, 2013 11:33 AMThank you Srinu for liking this document.

Thank$

Srinu SOct 29, 2013 11:31 AM

Really useful document MoazzaM. Thanks for sharing.

' MoazzaM ' in response to manojkhumar panneerselvam on page 16Oct 6, 2013 4:14 PM

Really glad to know your feedback Manoj. Thank you manojkhumar panneerselvam

Oct 6, 2013 3:05 PMHi Moazzam,

Thanks for sharing this. Now, I am able to appreciate the capability of BOM.

Please keep sharing more like this, Its very good.

Thank you so much

Regards,Manoj

' MoazzaM ' in response to krishna murali on page 16Oct 3, 2013 6:33 AMThank you dear.

krishna muraliOct 3, 2013 5:43 AMDear Moazzam,

this is very good document



thanks for advice

Warm regardsmurali kirshna

' MoazzaM ' in response to * Ammarah * (Away) on page 17Sep 27, 2013 7:29 PM

Thank you * Ammarah * (Away) for these wonderful words* Ammarah * (Away)

Sep 27, 2013 7:22 PMThis document is purely the crux of your professional experience blended with perfect business scenarios.

Thanks for sharing ' MoazzaM '

' MoazzaM ' in response to Pankaj Kharche on page 17Sep 26, 2013 7:12 PMThank you Pankaj

Pankaj KharcheSep 26, 2013 3:53 PMHi MoazzaM,

Very Helpful Document.

' MoazzaM ' in response to Phanikumar V on page 18Sep 24, 2013 1:57 PMPhanikumar

Did you read that document which I have shared in my blog? Please check the behave of ERLA and LUMFitem category groups. In my scenario main item and sub items both are delievery relevant, valuated stock andmain iten is billing relevant too. Can we do this with ERLa or LUMF?

Thank$

' MoazzaM ' in response to Pradeep Mani on page 18Sep 24, 2013 1:54 PMPradeep

Thanks

' MoazzaM ' in response to vinod reddy on page 18Sep 24, 2013 1:53 PMThank you Vinod

TW Typewriter in response to Phanikumar V on page 18



Sep 24, 2013 8:00 AMPhanikumar,

The control for whether relevant for inventory resides in the schedule line category, field Movement type (601).

So what ever the requirement e.g. inventory relevant at sub item level or at main level or at both levels, therelevant schedule line category settings have to be done.

Phanikumar VSep 24, 2013 7:43 AMDear Moazzam,

Thanks for the post.

But by post-If we want to give B and C as free with A--then BOM can be ideal solution.If it is done by BOM(ERLA/LUMF)-then the sub-items are not relevant for Inventory In ERLA and main item isnot relevant inventory in LUMF(because these two will act as Text items in respective scenarios)--which is nottrue with free goods

Please clarify me on this?

Phanikumar

Phanikumar

Pradeep ManiSep 24, 2013 6:08 AMVery good contribution to the community

Thanks,Pradeep

vinod reddySep 22, 2013 9:09 AMHi Moazzam,

Thank you very much for the efforts.

Best RegardsVInod

' MoazzaM ' in response to Naresh Krishnamoorthy on page 19Sep 12, 2013 6:07 PM



Thank you Naresh

Naresh KrishnamoorthySep 11, 2013 10:42 AMVery Useful...Thanks for your efforts.

Best Regards,Naresh K.

Srinu S in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 19Sep 11, 2013 10:41 AMHi MoazzaM,

Thank you for your document nicely explained.thanks,Srinu.

' MoazzaM ' in response to Moshira Ismail on page 19Sep 11, 2013 10:26 AM

Thanks Moshira

Moshira IsmailSep 11, 2013 9:26 AMExcellent effort Moazzam

' MoazzaM ' in response to Nidhi Raman on page 19Sep 11, 2013 7:02 AM

Thank you Nidhi

Nidhi RamanSep 11, 2013 5:56 AMGood blog Sir!

TW Typewriter in response to venu gopal on page 19Sep 10, 2013 8:28 AMvenu,

Please think of item category gr as a "tool" to determine the correct item category and nothing more.In other words, item category gr name is not important but how it is used, to determine which itemcategory(ies).

venu gopal in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 20Sep 10, 2013 8:20 AMThank you moazzam .. for your replay

venu gopal in response to TW Typewriter on page 20Sep 10, 2013 8:18 AM



Thank you so much for your replay ..it means we can use ERLA Also plz let me knowthanks a lot

' MoazzaM 'Sep 10, 2013 8:17 AMHi

I just used Z001 because i wanted to use it Seriously we can use ERLA or LUMF or any other because this is our customized sales document type ZXXXand customized item categories so item category group will be used to determine item categories and it can beany Z or standard group. But best practice is not to gamble with standards and always create your own whenyou are testing something.

Thank$

TW Typewriter in response to venu gopal on page 21Sep 10, 2013 8:10 AMvenu, D Sea,

I feel venu's point is valid, in Scenario 1, MVKE-MTPOS (item cat group) ERLA could have been used also.In item category determination, ERLA could be used even though business uses customized item categories(Z***). Provided the pricing, billing is done at main-item level.

In MoazzaM's example, he has used a customized item cat group, that too is fine. In both the cases (ERLA orZ001), the important thing is that the respective MMR should be populated with the correct item cat gr.

Dee Sea in response to venu gopal on page 21Sep 10, 2013 7:54 AMHi,

Just a small input here

Anywhere you work on real SAP Environment if anything like a :

Transaction Code Table Name Field Name Program Name Customizing Values - Ex: the Item Category Group in this case Etc.



has a Z or Y [ in some cases] as the first alphabet in the code, it is not a Standard SAP Name / Code andcreated by people like you and me.

Thanks.

venu gopal in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 21Sep 10, 2013 7:52 AMDear MoazzamIn scenario 1 For main item You have maintained z001 own item category groupBut generally ( STANDERD one ) We have to maintain ERLA ?

has nothing to do with ERLA

i am confused with this bz as i understood , in your case you have used ur own customized item cat groupz001 But generally ERLAso plz comment on thisThanks a lot for ur help

' MoazzaM ' in response to venu gopal on page 21Sep 10, 2013 6:27 AMHi Venu

No, Z001 is my own item category group. It is used to test these scenarios. ERLA and LUMF are standarditem category groups used for header level and item level BOMS but in my case I have created my own andconfigured BOM as per my own scenario. It has nothing to do with ERLA.

Thank$

venu gopal in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 21Sep 10, 2013 3:52 AMDear Moazzam and T.W

Item Category Group in Material master sales view is Z001 which is customized for freegoods main item materials. I will be using same material group for other scenarios as well.

Z001 Means ERLA Right ?

thank you so much

' MoazzaM ' in response to TW Typewriter on page 22Sep 9, 2013 10:51 AMDear TW and Venu

These were three senarios in my mind and as I said these are just to give you people an idea that how wecan modify BOM as per our own requirement. If you have any other scenario you can configure that by justchanging the settings of item categories and schedule line categories. Its easy and simple.



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' MoazzaM ' in response to Madan Shetty on page 22Sep 9, 2013 10:49 AMThank you Madan

TW Typewriter in response to venu gopal on page 22Sep 9, 2013 10:11 AMvenu,

I have to think about scenario 3.

I feel one thing which could add value to this blog is for each scenario the transactions (sales order, delivery,billing). The configuration settings would be seen clearly in the sales cycle.

Would you like to create transaction data for the above mentioned scenarios and past those here?It might help you too.

venu gopalSep 9, 2013 6:18 AMDear MoazzamNice documentation ,what ever you shared it will be great and very beneficial to persons who are most willingto learn some thing

And by the by thanks to T.Wplz explain me if you have another business scenario with 3 ONEthanks a lot

Madan ShettySep 8, 2013 10:20 PMThank you Moazzam very helpful document

' MoazzaM ' in response to Khushi Mughal on page 22Sep 8, 2013 2:07 PM

Thank you Khushi for nice comments

' MoazzaM ' in response to TW Typewriter on page 23Sep 8, 2013 2:06 PMThank you TW for the comment. I will check it tomorrow and will post my findings.

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Khushi MughalSep 8, 2013 1:33 PMHi Moazzam,



Good document and nicely explained.Keep posting...

Best Regards,Khushi

TW TypewriterSep 8, 2013 10:44 AMMoazzaM,

Thank you for this blog!Just memorizing theoritical knowledge of BOM..LUMF, ERLA etc. is not sufficient!(as with all SAP SD topics / functionalities) Competently "connecting" the theory with the various businessscenarios makes a consultant so much more value-adding to its clients etc. etc.Your business examples are priceless aids in the learning process (wrt BOM)!

After going through your blog, some comments -1. In all the scenarios - ONLY one item (the main-item) flows to the billing document.The client might want to have both the main and sub items in the billing document. And also in the output of thebilling document.

By having the field "Billing relevance" populated at both the main and sub item categories, all the items couldbe populated in the billing document.

2. Field "Statistical value", in item category, VOV7 - When a item is not relevant for pricing, not only do Imaintain pricing = blank, but also maintain field Statistical value = X

3. In Scenario 3 -3.a. Have you missed out the below entry in T184 -ZMZM Z001 ZTS6

3.b Would the below entry, result in incorrect data in the sales order?ZMZM Z001 ZTS5 ZTS5

If you activate pricing for ZTS5, then it would be activated for main and sub item, therefore the price would bemore than (double) of the price that should be.

Side comment - I would read, test and think about BOM (and your document) and get back if I have morecomments.Keep up the good work!

Karuna Ravuri in response to ' MoazzaM ' on page 24Sep 6, 2013 2:08 PM



Definitely helpful, thank you for posting

' MoazzaM ' in response to Karuna Ravuri on page 24Sep 6, 2013 1:38 PM

Thank you. I believe its helpfull too

Karuna RavuriSep 6, 2013 1:31 PMGood blog MoazzaM !

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