Purchase Order Accrual-Product Type Group Account Assignment issue

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How to use Product Type Group in configuration activity Create and Edit Account Determination for purchase order accruals. 

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See F1 Help on field Product Type Group

Product Type Group

Indicates the type of products that can be procured, for example, materials and services.

Use

In the product type group you choose to either procure a Material (by entering blank or 1) or a Service (by entering 2).

The procurement process is different for materials and services. For example, you can only maintain the field Service Performer when you purchase a service.

You also use the product type group Service to control that a service entry sheet can be created as a follow-on document of a purchase order.

The selection field Product Type Group is available for the following item categories:

• Standard

• Third-party

• Limit

Dependencies

In the product master data, the assigned material type defines the product type group, that is, whether the product is a material or a service. This means that whenever you select, for example, Service as the product type group in your purchasing document item, you can only enter the number of a product with the same product type group in the Material field of the item.

And the other way round: if you enter a product number in the Material field, for example, in a purchase order item, the product type group is derived automatically from the material type assigned to the product master. In this case, you cannot manually maintain the product type group in the purchase order item.

If you don´t enter a product number, but create a free-text item or a limit item, you have to maintain the product type group manually.