CS01: How to Create Bill of Material (BoM) in

SAP SD
A bill of material (BOM) describes the different components that together create a
product. For example- A computer is a product. It is a combination of CPU,
Keyboard, Monitor, Mouse etc. The bill of material contains the item number of each
component, quantity required in the manufacture of a product and the unit of
measure of the item.

SAP R/3 allows the creation of various categories of Bill of Material. Some of the
categories of the BOM are -

Material BOM (T-code CS01) - A bill of material that you create for a material
known as material BOM.

Equipment BOM (T-code-IB01) - Equipement BOM is used to describe the

structure of equipment and to assign spare parts to equipment for
maintenance purpose.

Sales Order BOM (T-code-CS61) -Sales Order BOM is used for make-to-
order production of products according to the requirements of customers.

Functional location BOM (T-Code-IB11) - A functional location BOM can be

created individually for each functional location or a group of technical
objects.

Document BOM (T-code-CS11) - A complex document may be made up

from multiple documents such as program, papers, technical drawing etc.
These related information and documentation object grouped as a unit using
a BOM.

Step 1) Create Material BOM

1. Enter T-code CS01 in the command field.

2. Enter Material / Plant / BOM usage .

Step 2)

Enter Item Code, Material component and Quanity.

Step 3)

Click on save button. A Message as will be displayed.

How to Create Invoice Correction Request in
SAP SD
What is Invoice Correction?

Invoice Correction is a process to correct quantity or prices in the invoices for one or
more line items.

The system calculates the differences between original amount and corrected
amount. Invoice correction request is automatically blocked by the system,until it has
been checked. Once its approved,we can remove the block.

The system creates either a credit or a debit memo according to the total value
of the invoice correction request.

Step 1)

1. Enter T-code VA01 in command field.

2. Enter in Order Type field Invoice Correction Request.

3. Enter Sales Organization / Distribution channel / division in organization data.

4. Click on Create with references button ,to create invoice correction with
reference of sales document.
Step 2)

1. Enter Sales order no in which correction is required

2. Click on Copy button.

Step 3)

1. Ship-To party / PO Number can be changed.

2. Enter Req. deliv date

3. Order quantity can be changed.

4. Click on save Button.

A message "Data Was Saved" is displayed.

SAP Item Category Determination: VOV7,

VOV4
What is Item Category?

An item category defines how a line item behaves in sales transaction.

SAP Uses Item category to process a material differently in each sales document
type.

e.g.

AFX - It is inquiry Item category ,it is not relevant for billing.

AGX It is quotation Item category ,it is not relevant for billing.

TAN It is standard Item category, it is relevant for billing.

T-code for Define Item category is VOV7.

Step 1)

1. Enter Tcode VOV7 in Command Bar.

2. List of Item Category including SAP and User Define Item category.

3. Click on New Entries Button,for create Item Category.

Step 2) While you create new Item category , following sections could be filled.

1. Business Data (billing / pricing etc. information).

2. General Control (It determine automatic batch,rounding permission and order

quantity to 1 or not).

3. Transaction Flow( Item screen detail ).

4. Bill of Material (used for variant configuration).

 5. Value Contract (for value contract).

6. Service Management (service scenario).

7. Control of resource(resource related billing scenario).

We will enter data in Business Data Section.

Step 3)

1. We are going to create YTA2 (Standard item category)

2. Enter Billing Relevance / Pricing. Check

Business Item

Sched. Line Allowed

Wght

Vol. Relevant

Credit Active

Determine Cost.

Step 4)

Click On Save Button.

A Message "Data Was saved " Displayed.

Item Category Determination
Item category controls the item behavior .e.g. Item category define that item is
relevant for Billing or Pricing.

The item category in the sales document depends on the sales document type and
the material.

Item Category Determination is done by T-code VOV4. There are Many Standard
Item Categories provide by SAP, Some of them is below-

Item Categories Description

TAN Standard Item

TAB Individual Purchase Order

TAS Third Party Item

TAD Service

TATX Text Item

TANN Free Of Charge

AFX Inquiry Item

AGX Quotation Item

Step 1)

1. Enter T-code VOV4 in Command Field.

 2. A list of existing item category displayed.

3. To Create a New item category click on New Entries Button.

Step 2)

To Create New Item Category ,Enter following data -

Sales Doc. type.

Item cat. group.

Item category (Default item category,this can be overridden with manual item
category value).

Manual item category (if business demands,we can add manual item category
to override default item category).

Note : Default item category will be picked up automatically for sales document
type in which it's define. Manual Item Category can be used in place of default item
category OR we can replace default item category in sales document with allowed
manual item category. e.g. Default item category( YTA2) can be replaced with
Manual item category (TAP,TAQ,TANN).

Step 3)

Click on Save Button.

A Message "Data Was Saved " displayed as below -

Define & Assign Blocking Reason in SAP (OVV4,

S_ALR_87007670)
What is Blocking Reason?

Blocking reason is using to block bill creation for a customer. Blocking reason can be
defined as per business requirements. After the creation of blocking reason, it has
assigned to corresponding document types and used in document processing.
Customer can also be blocked in Customer Master.

There are multiple reasons to block customer, some reasons are as below-

Customer is blacklist due to involvement in unlawful activities.

Customer defaulted payment.

Blocking is a 2 step process -

1. Create Blocking Reason

2. Assign Blocking Reason

Lets look at these steps in detail-

Step 1) Create Blocking Reason

Step 1.1)

1. Enter T-code S_ALR_87007670 in the command field.

2. Click on choose button.

Step 1.2)
 Click on new entries button.

Step 1.3)

1. Enter block code and billing block description.

2. Click on save button.

Step 1.4)

Click on save button.

A message " Data was saved " will be displayed.

Step 2) Assign Blocking Reason

Step 2.1)
 1. Enter T-code OVV4 in command field.

2. Click on new entries button.

Step 2.2)

1. Enter Blocking code.

2. Enter Billing type.

3. Save the record.

Step 2.3)

A message " Data was saved " displayed.