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Different business scenarios and Sales BOM

techniques for header and item level stock and prices
Posted by ' MoazzaM ' in SAP ERP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) on Sep 6, 2013 12:42:12 PM
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Dear Fellows
I have been continuously contributing in SD forums from last year and I have seen many threads about Sales BOM.
Sometime users want to modify sales BOM as per their own business scenarios so here I am going to explain 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 works in SD
process.
If you google with search term "Sales Bom in SAP SD" system will give you a lot of information about standard settings
of sales BOM by using item category group ERLA and LUMF. This information can be found on following 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 level or sub item
level. If you use ERLA item category group in finished goods material master data, it will control pricing and inventory at
header level and sub items will work as text items. For sub item level control you use item category group LUMF.
A very common and easy to understand example which SAP's standard documents have used is sale of a computer. In a
computer sale, we sell it with brand name and specification. For instance if we sell a Dell pentium 4 desktop computer, it
will have a mouse, keyboard, monitor and speakers but as a whole this is a Dell pentium 4 PC. So we will enter only one
material in sale order with material description DELL Pentium 4 Desktop PC and system will determine all compnents
automatically.
Sometime we get some requirements which SAP standard item categories and schedule line categories cannot meet. So
we need to understand the basic concepts of item categories and schedule line categories and change 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 item i.e.

there is 1:1 combination. We can play with material's quantity but not with number of materials. If we get a requirement
from client that if customer buys 5 quantity of material A then he will get 1 quantity of material B then it can be fulfill with
standard free goods by maintaining it in VBN1. But if customer will get 1 quantity of material B and 1 quantity of material
C on buying 1 quantity of material A then we can get this done by using Sales BOM.The settings for main item and sub
item will be as follows. I am assuming that you want to cumulate cost prices of sub items in main item at the time of
billing. If you don't want this then simply dont mark the check box in copy control from delivery to billing at item level for
cumulate cost. Also maintain BOM for master data in CS01 with usage 5.
Main Item Settings
Billing Relevance

Pricing

Sructure Scope

Application

SD01

Determin Cost

Check

Schdule line Allowed Check

Standard Shedule line category (CP) is used and Item Category Group in Material master sales view is Z001 which is
customized for free goods main item materials. I will be using same material group for other scenarios as well.
Sub Item Setting
Billing Relevance

Blank

Pricing

Blank

Sructure Scope

Blank

Application

Blank

Determin Cost

Check

Schdule line Allowed Check

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

ItCGr

ZMZM

NORM

Usg.

HLevItca

DfItc

ZTS1

ZMZM

Z001

ZTS2
ZTS1

ZMZM

NORM

TAN

Here ZMZM is my order type and Z001 is material group which I have maintained only in main item material's sales view
field Item category group from material master (MVKE-MTPOS). Here no need to maintain in General 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 to customers

and producing them in our plant. In split air conditioner Indoor, outdoor and Remote control are three separate materials.
We sell split air conditioner in finished goods with capacity and brand name like 1 Ton Samsung AC 2 Ton Mitsubishi AC
and we can also sell components individually. So we need to maintain prices at both level header and item. Here we will
maintain stock at item level and price at item and header both. If we are selling a whole package of split air conditioner
then it will be at header level and if we are selling only one component then there will be individual price of component.
When we are selling a whole package
Main Item
Billing Relevance

Pricing

Sructure Scope

Application

SD01

Determin Cost

Check

Schdule line Allowed

Check

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

Blank

Pricing

Blank

Sructure Scope

Blank

Application

Blank

Determin Cost

Check

Schdule line Allowed Check

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

Item Category Assignment
SaTy

ItCGr

ZMZM

NORM

Usg.

HLevItca

DfItc

ZTS3

ZMZM

Z001

ZTS4
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 billing and
pricing activated and price will be determined from condition record which you have maintained for it. So you 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

BOMs then 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 we are maintaining BOMs for computers and CPU separately. If we are selling a desktop computer
then system will explode BOM of Dell 780 Computer in which we have maintained Monitor, CPU, Key Board,
Mouse and Speakers materials and for CPU we have another BOM with Mother Board, Power Supply, Hard
Drive and Super drive etc. Now when we enter Dell 780 material system will explode two BOMs. Prices will
be maintained for Computer (Exluding CPU). For CPU we will maintain seprate price. Stock and deliveries will
be maintain at sub item level.From configuration point of view there will two differences from scenario 2.

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Main ITem
Billing Relevance

Pricing

Sructure Scope

Application

SD01

Determin Cost

Check

Schdule line Allowed

Check

Sub Item settings and schedule line settings will be same as in scenario 2.
Item Category Assignment.
ZMZM

NORM

ZMZM

NORM

ZTS5

TAN
ZTS6

ZMZM

NORM

ZTS6

ZTS6

ZMZM

Z001

ZMZM

Z001

ZTS5
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 an idea. You can
modify them as epr your scenario. It is all about playing with item category and schedule line settings. If you have some
other BOM related business scenario or process which you are not able to configure with 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 in delivery or
allow single items too, creating automatic PR (third party sale) and maintain prices for compnents and whole package
etc. I am not going in detail of these as we can find a lot of links in SCN describing these controls.
Value addition comments and suggestions will be highly appriciated.
TW Typewriter if there is any other business
scenario or example in your mind please share with me.
Thank$

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Karuna Ravuri Sep 6, 2013 1:31 PM

Good blog MoazzaM !

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' MoazzaM ' Sep 6, 2013 1:38 PM (in response to Karuna Ravuri)

Thank you. I believe its helpfull too

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Karuna Ravuri Sep 6, 2013 2:08 PM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Definitely helpful, thank you for posting

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TW Typewriter Sep 8, 2013 10:44 AM

MoazzaM,
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
business scenarios 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.

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The client might want to have both the main and sub items in the billing document. And also in the
output of the billing document.
By having the field "Billing relevance" populated at both the main and sub item categories, all the items
could be populated in the billing document.
2. Field "Statistical value", in item category, VOV7 - When a item is not relevant for pricing, not only do I
maintain 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 be more 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
more comments.
Keep up the good work!
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 8, 2013 2:06 PM (in response to TW Typewriter)

Thank you TW for the comment. I will check it tomorrow and will post my findings.
Thank$
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Khushi Mughal Sep 8, 2013 1:38 PM

Hi Moazzam,
Good document and nicely explained.
Keep posting...
Best Regards,
Khushi
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 8, 2013 2:07 PM (in response to Khushi Mughal)

Thank you Khushi for nice comments

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Madan Shetty Sep 8, 2013 10:20 PM

Thank you Moazzam very helpful document

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' MoazzaM ' Sep 9, 2013 10:49 AM (in response to Madan Shetty)

Thank you Madan

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venu gopal Sep 9, 2013 6:18 AM

Dear Moazzam
Nice documentation ,what ever you shared it will be great and very beneficial to persons who are most
willing to learn some thing
And by the by thanks to T.W
plz explain me if you have another business scenario with 3 ONE
thanks a lot
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TW Typewriter Sep 9, 2013 10:11 AM (in response to venu gopal)

venu,
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.
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 9, 2013 10:51 AM (in response to TW Typewriter)

Dear 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 we can modify BOM as per our own requirement. If you
have any other scenario you can configure that by just changing the settings of item

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categories and schedule line categories. Its easy and simple.

Thank$
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venu gopal Sep 10, 2013 3:52 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Dear Moazzam and T.W

Item Category Group in Material master sales view is Z001

which is customized for free goods main item materials. I will be
using same material group for other scenarios as well.
Z001 Means ERLA Right ?
thank you so much
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 10, 2013 6:27 AM (in response to venu gopal)

Hi Venu
No, Z001 is my own item category group. It is used to test these
scenarios. ERLA and LUMF are standard item category groups
used for header level and item level BOMS but in my case I have
created my own and configured BOM as per my own scenario. It
has nothing to do with ERLA.
Thank$
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venu gopal Sep 10, 2013 7:52 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Dear Moazzam
In scenario 1 For main item You have maintained z001
own item category group
But 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 group
z001 But generally ERLA
so plz comment on this
Thanks a lot for ur help
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TW Typewriter Sep 10, 2013 8:10 AM (in response to

venu gopal)

venu, 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 or Z001), the important
thing is that the respective MMR should be
populated with the correct item cat gr.
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venu gopal Sep 10, 2013 8:18 AM (in

response to TW Typewriter)

Thank you so much for your replay ..

it means we can use ERLA Also plz
let me know
thanks a lot
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TW Typewriter Sep 10, 2013

8:28 AM (in response to venu
gopal)

venu,
Please think of item
category gr as a "tool" to
determine the correct item
category and nothing more.
In other words, item

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category gr name is not

important but how it is used,
to determine which item
category(ies).
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Dee Cee Sep 10, 2013 7:55 AM (in response to venu gopal)

Hi,
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 and created by people like
you and me.
Thanks.
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 10, 2013 8:17 AM

Hi
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
ZXXX and customized item categories so item category group will be used to determine item categories
and it can be any Z or standard group. But best practice is not to gamble with standards and always
create your own when you are testing something.
Thank$
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venu gopal Sep 10, 2013 8:20 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Thank you moazzam .. for your replay

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Nidhi Raman Sep 11, 2013 5:56 AM

Good blog Sir!

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' MoazzaM ' Sep 11, 2013 7:02 AM (in response to Nidhi Raman)

Thank you Nidhi

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Moshira Ismail Sep 11, 2013 9:26 AM

Excellent effort Moazzam

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' MoazzaM ' Sep 11, 2013 10:26 AM (in response to Moshira Ismail)

Thanks Moshira
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Srinu S Sep 11, 2013 10:41 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Hi MoazzaM,
Thank you for your document nicely explained.
thanks,
Srinu.
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Naresh Krishnamoorthy Sep 11, 2013 10:42 AM

Very Useful...Thanks for your efforts.

Best Regards,
Naresh K.
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 12, 2013 6:07 PM (in response to Naresh Krishnamoorthy)

Thank you Naresh

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vinod reddy Sep 22, 2013 9:09 AM

Hi Moazzam,
Thank you very much for the efforts.

Best Regards
VInod
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 24, 2013 1:53 PM (in response to vinod reddy)

Thank you Vinod

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Pradeep Mani Sep 24, 2013 6:08 AM

Very good contribution to the community

Thanks,
Pradeep
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 24, 2013 1:54 PM (in response to Pradeep Mani)

Pradeep
Thanks
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Phanikumar V Sep 24, 2013 7:43 AM

Dear 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 is not relevant inventory in LUMF(because these two will act as Text items in respective
scenarios)--which is not true with free goods
Please clarify me on this?
Phanikumar
Phanikumar
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TW Typewriter Sep 24, 2013 8:00 AM (in response to Phanikumar V)

Phanikumar,
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, the relevant schedule line category settings have to be done.
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 24, 2013 1:57 PM (in response to Phanikumar V)

Phanikumar
Did you read that document which I have shared in my blog? Please check the behave of
ERLA and LUMF item category groups. In my scenario main item and sub items both are
delievery relevant, valuated stock and main iten is billing relevant too. Can we do this with
ERLa or LUMF?
Thank$
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Pankaj Kharche Sep 26, 2013 3:53 PM

Hi MoazzaM,
Very Helpful Document.
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 26, 2013 7:12 PM (in response to Pankaj Kharche)

Thank you Pankaj

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* Ammarah * (Away) Sep 27, 2013 7:22 PM

This document is purely the crux of your professional experience blended with perfect business
scenarios. Thanks for sharing

' MoazzaM '

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

Thank you

* Ammarah * (Away) for these wonderful words

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krishna murali Oct 3, 2013 5:43 AM

Dear Moazzam,
this is very good document
thanks for advice
Warm regards
murali kirshna
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' MoazzaM ' Oct 3, 2013 6:33 AM (in response to krishna murali)

Thank you dear.

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manojkhumar panneerselvam Oct 6, 2013 3:05 PM

Hi 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
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' MoazzaM ' Oct 6, 2013 4:14 PM (in response to manojkhumar panneerselvam)

Really glad to know your feedback Manoj. Thank you

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Srinu S Oct 29, 2013 11:31 AM

Really useful document MoazzaM. Thanks for sharing.

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' MoazzaM ' Oct 29, 2013 11:33 AM (in response to Srinu S)

Thank you Srinu for liking this document.

Thank$
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Raman KV Nov 4, 2013 11:37 AM

Great explanation with scenarios about BOM Techniques. Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks
Raman
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' MoazzaM ' Nov 4, 2013 12:19 PM (in response to Raman KV)

Thank you Raman for this compliment.

Thank$
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ratnam sri Dec 18, 2013 1:35 PM

Hi Moazzam,
Good document and nicely explained.
Keep posting...

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Regards
Ratnamsri
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' MoazzaM ' Dec 19, 2013 8:20 AM (in response to ratnam sri)

Hi

ratnam sri

Thank you for your nice remarks.

Thank$
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Hussain Poonawalla Dec 18, 2013 3:46 PM

Great, its helpful!

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' MoazzaM ' Dec 19, 2013 8:20 AM (in response to Hussain Poonawalla)

Thank you my friend

Hussain Poonawalla

Thank$
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Santosh Panda Jan 26, 2014 6:39 PM

Hi 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?
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' MoazzaM ' Jan 27, 2014 5:38 AM (in response to Santosh Panda)

Hi Santosh
This can be done with ABAP customizing. There would be a lot of ABAP work involve in it. Z
table and and code in MV45AFZZ program. Sales BOM wont support this scenario.
Thank$
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R Sgr Feb 5, 2014 1:12 PM

Dear MoazzaM,
The extent of the explosion of BOM depends upon the Item Categ and not Item Categ Gr. As
TW
Typewriter rightly said that item categ gr is only a tool to pick the correct Item Category. So I my views
instead of emphasizing on Itm Categ gr you should have explained that how Item Categ

determines the extent of BOM explosion.

Hope you don't mind.
Thanks.
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' MoazzaM ' Feb 6, 2014 8:14 AM (in response to R Sgr)

Dear

R Sgr

Thank you for your suggestion. Topic of this blog is use of sales BOM as per business
scenarios and I tryied to explain that. How does item category explode in sales BOM is a
different topic and a user who is working with sales 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$
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Patrick Imhen Feb 22, 2014 1:02 PM

Welldone 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 when the Invoice is released to FI, only the Values for the Sub-Items should post to their Revenue
Accounts and their respective Profit Centers while the Value at the Main-Item will only be statistical for
Printout. That is if you have Sub-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 their respective Revenue Account and Profit Centers while the
Main-item ZZ will only be statistical for printout.
How can this be achieved?
Regards,
Patrick

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' MoazzaM ' Feb 24, 2014 6:14 AM (in response to Patrick Imhen)

Hi
Thank you for your compliment.
For your query posting values of sub items to different revenues account is something I never
worked on it. We can have value of main item just for statistic purpose or print purpose. For
this you just need to make main item not 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$
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TW Typewriter Feb 24, 2014 6:33 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

MoazzaM,
Interesting comment related to the requirement - Main item is set not relevant for
billing & print out of billing document (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 the printout of bill, you have the main item. There is an
inconsistency between bill in SAP and its printout. Please confirm & why so?
By keeping pricing as statistical in the main item, you could have populated it in the
billing document also.
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' MoazzaM ' Feb 24, 2014 12:12 PM (in response to TW Typewriter)

Dear TW
There are always many ways to do one thing. My point was that if main
item is required only for printing in billing then we can mark it not relevant
for billing and in invoice print out we can get a link to sales order and get its
price from there.
Your point is also valid and we can achieve this requirement from that as
well. Thank you for your value addition comment.
Thank$
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Sundar S Feb 24, 2014 7:58 AM

Good Job Moazzam

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Jayshree Pillai Feb 24, 2014 9:15 AM

Thank you Moazzam!!

Special mention of your language and sentence formations, it makes it so easy to understand and
comprehend.
Also, business examples are very helpful.
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' MoazzaM ' Feb 24, 2014 12:13 PM (in response to Jayshree Pillai)

Thank you Jayshree. Actually as you know English is not my primary language so I can't write
difficult senteces. I always try to use simple and easy words and sentences so that people like
me can understand it easily
Thank$
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zaheer zaidi Feb 24, 2014 9:59 AM

Hi Moazzam,
Nice and simple explanation about BOM. I have one scenario, suppose there are different types of CPU
for example Intel core 2 duo, core i3, core i5, core i7. These CPUs can be sold as a part of PC or as an
individual pieces. Is it possible to maintain just one material as CPU and further classify it using sales
material groups in sales org2 view in material master and then use it as main or sub item as per
requirement?
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' MoazzaM ' Feb 24, 2014 12:16 PM (in response to zaheer zaidi)

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

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Thank$
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zaheer zaidi Feb 24, 2014 1:49 PM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Hi Moazzam,
Thanks for your reply. You are absolutely right the item category controls what a bill
of material can do in a sales order. Let's come to the sales material groups. As I
wrote you before, if there is a material called CPU and it has different types core i3,
i5 and i7 and it is Intel based CPU. In this scenario if I create a material CPU and
assign it a material group Intel (Basic data 1 view) and then for further classification I
use the sales material groups (sales org 2 view) then how can I control pricing to the
extent of sales material groups because for pricing the only field which is available in
the field catalog is MVGR1 which is material group 1 and for other material groups
there is no option in the field catalog.
Thanks..
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TW Typewriter Feb 24, 2014 2:27 PM (in response to zaheer zaidi)

zaheer,
MoazzaM also touched upon this point - For core i3, i5 and i7, are 3
different material master records created in SAP?
Do you want to have different pricing for each of the above materials?
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zaheer zaidi Feb 24, 2014 4:31 PM (in response to TW Typewriter)

Hi TW,
No, there is only one material master which is CPU and I am
trying not to create material master for i3, i5 and i7 and use sales
material group for further control, is it possible?
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TW Typewriter Feb 24, 2014 7:22 PM (in response to zaheer

zaidi)

Hi 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 3
products (materials) in SAP?
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zaheer zaidi Feb 24, 2014 10:52 PM (in response to

TW Typewriter)

You are right, Thanks TW

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zaheer zaidi Feb 24, 2014 11:58 PM (in response to

TW Typewriter)

Hi TW,
Have a look to this scenario.
Accessories (can be sold as an individual
piece or as a part of PC)
IBU Intel Based CPU
ABU AMD Based CPU
M17 17 Monitors
M19 19 Monitors
WM Wired Mouse
LM Wireless Mouse
WKB Wired Keyboard
LKB Wireless Keyboard
Materials which will be sold in a package

987655 ABC Graphic Desktop

765432 ABC Portable Laptop
987654 ABC Performance Desktop
In the above scenario I am creating two
material groups
1, Desktop
2, Laptops
Three main items
1, Graphic Desktop
2, ABC Portable Laptop

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3, 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.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

IBU Intel Based CPU

ABU AMD Based CPU
M17 17 Monitors
M19 19 Monitors
WM Wired Mouse
LM Wireless Mouse
WKB Wired Keyboard
LKB Wireless Keyboard

Do you think this above configuration

approach is right?
Thanks..
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TW Typewriter Feb 25, 2014 5:34 AM (in

response to zaheer zaidi)

zaheer,
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
be done.
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Phanikumar V Feb 25, 2014 5:33 AM (in

response to zaheer zaidi)

Dear Zaheer,
For this requirement you can go
ahead with Variant configuration(
same material with Different
variants)--Hope this helps you..
Pl follow --http://help.sap.com
/printdocu/core/print46c/en/data
/pdf/lovc/lovc.pdf
Phanikumar
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' MoazzaM ' Feb 25, 2014 6:12 AM

zaheer zaidi
TW has already answered to all of your queries and TW is right for BOM usages. I hope you got the
idea how we can use BOM functioanlity in your business process. If you need some clarification or help
you can come here again.
Thank$
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zaheer zaidi Feb 25, 2014 10:54 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Thank you Moazzam and TW.

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zaheer zaidi Mar 3, 2014 12:10 AM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

Hi
That is the solution of the problem which I had posted few days ago about BOM. I would like
to share it here in this 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. If sub items are part of HP laptop then the main items HP Laptop will be priced
and sub item will not be priced but price is applied in case if the sub items are sold

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individually.
Here are the steps I followed to implement this business scenario.
I have created following main and sub materials.
Main Items
Material: lPHP(Laptop HP), mat group LAPTOP, sales mat group HP
Sub Items
Material: 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 zor1
2, Created 2 item category groups zorm and xorm. I used zorm in the material master of main
item and for sub items 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 Item category (TAE)
For main item the item category TAQ will be determined which is applicable for pricing and for
sub items item cat 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 now sub 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.
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Phanikumar V Mar 3, 2014 4:52 AM (in response to zaheer zaidi)

""" Created 2 item category groups zorm and xorm. I used zorm in the material master
of main item and for sub items 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
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TW Typewriter Mar 3, 2014 7:01 AM (in response to Phanikumar V)

Phani,
zaheer used ZORM as item category group for the main item. (and not the
standard ERLA)
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TW Typewriter Mar 3, 2014 7:06 AM (in response to zaheer zaidi)

zaheer,
In your case, you could have also used the standard item category group - ERLA
and NORM (in place of ZORM, XORM)
In the material master record the item category groups do not have to be changed to
your custom item category groups (if material created already).
If you want to restrict these materials ONLY to this process (and no other sales
process) then also you are restricting as the sales document type is custom (and not
OR etc.) so with standard item category groups and custom doc type it could have
been achieved.
Thanks for sharing!
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zaheer zaidi Mar 3, 2014 10:15 AM (in response to TW Typewriter)

Hi TW,
I have plan to create custom item categories to avoid touching standards
ones because it is not recommended to 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
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' MoazzaM ' Mar 3, 2014 10:27 AM (in response to zaheer zaidi)

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Hi
You are right about item categories and document types but for
item category group we can use standard one for determination
for ouw own item categories and document types. There is no
settings in NORM item category group so you can use it but there
many settings and control parameters in TAN or OR and that is
why it is recommended that you create a separate one for your
use.
Thank$
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zaheer zaidi Mar 3, 2014 12:16 PM (in response to ' MoazzaM ')

yes you are right there is no setting behind the standard

item cat groups and we can use them.
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TW Typewriter Mar 3, 2014 5:36 PM (in response to

zaheer zaidi)

zaheer,
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 of view. 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, item categories etc.
Related to item category group - you created
new ZORM but how did you create it? What
did you take as reference item cat group?
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zaheer zaidi Mar 4, 2014 11:42 AM (in

response to TW Typewriter)

TW,
I didn't take any item cat group as a
reference because there is not much
setting behind in the standard item
cat groups.
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Suresh Sai Feb 25, 2014 11:40 AM

Awesome, Great work...

Keep it up!!!! Thanks fr sharing.
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Shashi Thakur Mar 5, 2014 7:56 AM

Excellent Blog MoazzaM,

I have read it multiple times..Keep writing.
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' MoazzaM ' Mar 5, 2014 9:30 AM (in response to Shashi Thakur)

Hi
This is valueable compliment for me. Thank you Shashi Thakur
Thank$
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Dibyendu Patra Sep 30, 2014 7:24 AM

Good document.. I had given a PDF for this document to my SD consultant. His review was 5 star and
yes you deserve it. Keep sharing knowledge..
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' MoazzaM ' Sep 30, 2014 2:13 PM (in response to Dibyendu Patra)

Thank you Dev for such valueable remarks. Really obliged.

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Thank$
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vinod reddy Sep 30, 2014 3:53 PM

Hi Moazzam,
Thanks for making your time and efforts in making a good document as always.
Regards,
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Haresh Panara Oct 1, 2014 6:26 AM

Thanks, Great Work, Nicely explain, Very userful document.

Once again thanks for sharing such useful document.
Regards,
Haresh

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' MoazzaM ' Oct 1, 2014 12:23 PM

vinod reddy

Haresh Panara Thank you guys for appreciating this effort.

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