Determination Rule in SAP SD
# Determination Object Rules for determination
1 Sales document Sales Area
+ Document Type
2 Item categorydetermination for Document type
Sales document + Item category Group
+ Usage
+ High level Item Category
3 Schedule line category Item category of the corresponding item
determination + MRP type of the Material
4 Delivery document determination Delivery document default type attached to Sales document type
5 Item category determination for Copy form Sales document
Delivery document or
Delivery Document type
+ Item category Group
+ Usage
+ High level Item Category
6 Shipping Point Determination Delivery Plant
+ Shipping condition (Customer Master - Sold-to Party)
+ Loading group(Matrial Master)
7 Route determination Departure zone of the shipping pt(Customizing)
+ shipping condition(SP)
+ Transport group(MM)
+ Transportation zone of the Ship to party(General Data)
8 Storage location determination Shipping point
+ Delivery plant
+ storage condition
9 Picking determination On bases of MALA rule
Delivery Plant
+ Loading Group
+ Storage condition(MM)
(storage rule also assignment to Delivery type)
10 Packing determination Package usage
11 POD This object use for confirmation of delivery, based on which billing document
can create
12 Billing document determination Sales document type is maintained as default type
For Billing plan, Billing Type maintain under Billing Plan Type of Maintain Date
Category for Billing Plan Type
13 Account determination Chart of Accounts
+ Sales Org
+ Customer Account grp (Customer Master - Payer)
+ Material Account grp (Material Master)
+ Account key
14 Business area determination Plant/Valutaion Area
OR
Sales area
OR
Item division + Plant
15 Company code determination Sales organization uniquely attached to Company code
16 Partner determination At -Account group level, sales document header level, item level, sales
document delivery level, Shipment level, Billing document level and item level
17 Delivery Plant determination The system will determine Plant details at following in given sequence
Customer - Material info record
From customer master Ship-to Party
From Material Master
18 Output determination Output determination at Sales document level, Delivery level, Billing level
19 Price determination Pricing procedure
Sales Area
+ Document Pricing Procedure indicator from Sale/Billing Document type
+ Pricing Pricing Procedure indicator from Customer Master (Sold-to Party)
20 Text determination 1)Customer Material Information Record
2) Customer Master (General text, Accounting text, Sales text)
3) Material master text (Sales text or PO text)
21 Warehouse determination Ware house number
+ Plant
+ Storage location
22 Lean Warehouse determination Lean ware house activate,
Plant
+ Storage Location
+ Ware house number
23 Tax determination Destination Country of Ship-to Party
+ Departure Country of Shipping Point
+ Tax Classification for Customer from Customer Master
+ Tax Classification for Material Master
24 Routing determination Shipping point
+ Delivery plant
+ Loading condition
+ Shipping condition
25 Material determination Create condition record
Maintain Customer Material record
26 Product substitute Create condition record
27 Product Exclusion Create condition record(Not to sale any particular product)
28 Product listing Create condition record (Sale of one particular product)
29 Credit check Credit check at Sales document level OR at Delivery OR at Good issue Risk
group at Sales document level and Risk category from Customer Master, Item
category credit check should be activate
30 Incomplete log Incomplete log assign to Status group, which is assign to Sales document,
Item category or Schedule line level
31 Rebate condition setup customer master billing info checked, Sales organization activate, Billing
document activate
32 Sales Area Customer Master
33 Free goods Sales area + Document determination procedure (Sales document type) +
Customer determination procedure
Functions of Item Category in SAP SD Process
Item category is used to define whether system run automatic pricing for an item or not
Is it required the item appears on an invoice or not.
Which fields are recorded in the incompletion log for respective item category if they were not entered in
sales order.
Item category is used to define which partner function belong to which item
Whether the item appears on a delivery or not.
The delivery relevance indicator is only for items without schedule line. For example, you can indicate that
as a text item is relevance for delivery so that the system copies this into delivery document. Item category has
indicator to define whether you can create schedule lines for the item
You can configure an item category whether business data(incoterms and payment terms) at item level
should differ from business data from header level.
Bill of material:
o To determine how far the BOM should be exploding in the sales document, you need to define the
extent of the structure of the item category of the main item.
o In customizing for item category, you control which item(s) are relevant to pricing and how you want
to implement requirement transfer.
o All items in BOM that you want to control in the sales document must be flagged as ‘relevance for
sales’.
Item category is maintained as functions of copy control and updating the document flow.
In document referencing, completion rule is defined at item category.
Maintain value contract material at item category to determine account assignment, taxes and statistical
update.
Item category is used to define billing plan type.
Billing relevance indicator is mentioned in item category. Indicator A is for delivery related billing and
indicator B is for order related billing.
Billing block is set at item category.
Determination of Schedule Line Category in SAP SD
Schedule line category:
In SAP SD process, schedule line category in sales order decides whether or how the system passes on
requirements to materials requirements planning (MRP).
Determination:
Schedule line category is determined based on Item Category and MRP type
Item category is determined(sales document type + item category group + item usage + higher level item
category) in sales order(screen 1.0)
MRP type is defined in material master - MRP 1(screen 1.1)
Screen 1.0
Screen 1.1
Determination Rule:
1. Item Category + MRP type
2. Item Category (if there is no MRP type defined), refer screen 1.2 for detail
This assignment is maintained in t-code VOV6(screen 1.2)
Screen 1.2
SAP SD Functions Keynote
You can crack most of the stuff in SAP SD Certification exam if you remember SAP SD functions very smartly. In this blog I have
listed few functions and where they are affected in any SAP SD documents.
Billing Block:
Sales document header
Sales document item
Delivery document header
Delivery document item
Delivery block:
Sales document header
Sales document schedule line level
Controlling the incompletion log
Sales document types
Item Categories
Schedule Line categories
Partner functions
Sales activities
Delivery types
Delivery item categories
Partner Functions
Sales document header
Sales document item
Delivery document header
Billing document header
Billing document item
Text determination
Customer master records
Material master records
Customer - material info records
Sales documents header
Sales document item
Text can maintained manually and as a standard text
