International shipments (Third party sales )

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Right now we are in the process of doing only domestic sales of a particular product which our company is manufacturning. There is a immediate business decision that the same product will be shipped internationally .

The catch here is that all our international sales orders are third party sales orders. Since in the present situation we are doing only domestic sales , the Item category group in the material master reads NORM and the item category reads TAN .

If we need to use the same material for third party sales , we need to have item category TAS which will again depend upon the item category grp from the material master .

My question is , Is there a way by which the same material determines different item categories in the sales order depending upon the kind of sales ( domestic/International) ????.

Note : The sales area for both domestic and International is going to be the same.

Any useful suggestions are more than welcome !!!!.

Thanks

Amrith

[former_member550050]

Welcome to SDN

As suggested you can have two order types say OR for domestic sales and ZOR for international sales and have item category determination as OR + NORM = TAN and ZOR + NORM = TAS in VOV4

This should be the ideal way so thatthere is clarity

If the management wants to go with single order type only say only OR

then have item category determination as OR + NORM = TAN and manual item cat as TAS in VOV4

So when the international sales come change the item cat manually in sales order from TAN to TAS

My question is , Is there a way by which the same material determines different item categories in the sales order depending upon the kind of sales ( domestic/International) ????.

Manually you can change the itemcat in sales order provided that is defined in VOV4

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Hi Raja,

Thanks for your reply. I don't think it would be ideal to chnage the item category manually as it might end up in manual error.

I agree with the second suggestion of having a different order type. I will let you know once I have the discussion with my client.

Thanks

Amrith

Edited by: Amrith0202 on May 7, 2009 4:46 PM

[Former Member]

Hello Amrith,

I agree with you it is very cumbersome to change the item category manually. Considering your business requirement it is advisable to create a new order type for international sales and maintain the item category determination for the new sales order type.

Letu2019s discuss a solution if you have come across any objections from your client.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi Amrith,

Item category determination happens sales document type wise, so if you create a new document type for international 3rd party orders (if its not already done), you can have TAS determined for this type and the same item category group NORM.

Cheers,

KC