Item category controls the item behaviour. The item category determination in the sales document depends on the sales document type and the material. Item Category Determination is done by T-code – VOV4. Assigning item category also refer as item category determination.
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When the customer requests for the return, the company needs to pick-up the product to send it to warehouse. The pickup process is called as Consignment Pickup (CP). In consignment pickup process, products picked up from the customer and stores at warehouse as consignment stock.
The item category group determines how a material is processed in the sales order. When processing sales and distribution documents, the system uses the item category group to determine the item category.
Outputs are an essential media of communication with various business partners and internal partner within the organization during or for sales processing.
The items in a sales document are divided into one or more schedule lines. These schedule lines differ from each other with respect to date and quantity. A schedule line category determines about how the line item should behave.
In some cases, the customer selected product is not available for purchase. In that scenario, the alternative product should be selected and provides informational message to the customer.
Schedule line Category determines the schedule lines for the line item and it will determine whether the item is relevant for delivery or not. The System automatically determines the corresponding schedule line category for the items when processing sales documents.
A credit control area is an organizational unit. A credit control area used for specifying and controlling customer credit limits. A credit control area can include one or more company codes. A company code can’t be divided into several credit control areas.
Purchase order types are the parameters which are used by the customer while placing the order. Purchase order type determines the various communication services like email, phone, post etc. Purchase order types makes the job easy by setting the preferred communication method.
Shipping point is an independent organizational entity and is required to ship the products to a customer in SAP. The shipping point can be proposed automatically during order processing depending on the plant, loading group and shipping condition. Shipping point determination depends on the following three factors –