Using a Non-valuated, non-stock material in an STO

[Former Member]

Created a planning material with UNBW material type in ECC 6 to use to help manage shipping capacity at the mill. Added to a sales order and it decremented the plan as expected.

Half of the mill's deliveries are STO's so now trying to get this to work on an STO.

Does anybody have advice on how to get a non-valuated, non-stock material (ideally, a planning material, but we could work around this) that we don't plan to deliver, to work on an STO?

[Former Member]

and a follow-on question: is there a way to link default item categories to materials for STO's so users won't have to enter it on the STO every time?

[miguelngel_garcsramrez]

You know, there are 2 fields in the material master to influence in the item category determination for deliveries when they are created from STO's:

1.- Item Category Group: (MVKE-MTPOS):

This field, among with the delivery type, the usage ('V' for Purchase Order related deliveries) and the higher-level item category (if it applies) determines the Delivery Item Category. It is valid only for Outbound Delivery Item Category determination since they have Sales Org + Distr.Channel information.

Valid scenarios: OBD's for STO's, OBD's for Subcontracting, OBD's for return PO's

General Item Category Group (MARA-MTPOS_MARA):

This field is used when MVKE-MTPOS is empty. So, the item category determination uses the General Item Category Group instead, which works at client level.

Moreover, this field is also used for the Inbound Delivery Item Category Determination, since these documents don't have Distr.Channel information. Hence they can only use the Item Category Group at client level for determining Item Categories.

Valid scenarios: OBD's for STO's, OBD's for Subcontracting, OBD's for return PO's (when MVKE-MTPOS is empty) and all type of IBD's.

Regards

Miguel