Aggregation Categories 

Use

Aggregation categories are enhanced article master data. You use aggregation categories to total the quantities of all the items in an aggregation category in a document.

The system can perform aggregation for the following documents:

·        Sales order

·        Delivery

·        Transportation

In the beverage industry, for example, aggregation categories allow you to estimate the volume of an order in crates, irrespective of what is contained in the crates.

Prerequisites

·        To use the aggregation categories you must specify in Customizing (Customizing table Define Categories of Totals Fields) which of the four proposed aggregation categories you wish to use, and what their description should be (for example, barrels, crates).

·        In Customizing for the material master you must have assigned the screen sequence BD (when using DSD without vehicle space optimization) or BV (if you are using DSD vehicle space optimization).

·        In the material master in the DSD Totals view, you must have selected one of the listed aggregation categories, have assigned a unit of measure, and have processed the corresponding conversion factor.

·        The aggregation categories are only visible in the material master when you have specified a sales area.

Activities

You enter customer-specific descriptions for aggregation categories in Customizing (Customizing table Define Categories of Totals Fields). The number of aggregation categories is limited to four.

In the order and the delivery the system displays the aggregation categories with the Loading Units.

The system calculates and displays aggregation categories in orders, deliveries and shipments as follows:

·        In an order the system calculates aggregation categories dynamically and does not save them.

·        In a delivery the system calculates and saves aggregation categories.

·        In a shipment (shipment list) the system displays aggregation categories in the Direct Store Delivery.