Check Account Assignment Categories (SAP Library

Check Account Assignment Categories

In this step, you can change the attributes of the account assignment categories for purchasing documents.

Activities

1. Check the attributes of the account assignment categories

2. Maintain the account assignment categories to suit your requirements

Further Notes: Sales-Order-Relation Production

To enable goods movements to take place through the sales order stock, you must select a requirements class that specifies an account assignment category that specifies that goods movements take place through the sales order stock ( Special stock field).

Goods movements will take place through the sales order stock if the entry in the Special stock field is E (order stock).

In sales-order-related production, goods movements should take place through the sales order stock.

To be able to collect costs on a sales order item, you must select a requirements class that specifies an account assignment category that allows costs and revenues to be collected on a sales order item (Consumption posting field).

Collecting costs and revenues on the sales order item is allowed when the entry in the Consumption posting field is E (settlement through sales order).

Collecting costs and revenues on the sales order item is recommended in complex make-to-order production.

In the standard system, the account assignment category is E. If you are using account assignment category 'E', materials are managed in order inventory (entry 'E' in indicator special stock ) and the sales order item is defined as carrying costs and revenues (entry 'E' in indicator consumption posting).

You make no entry in the Consumption posting field if you are using a valuated sales order stock and don't want to flag the sales order item (item in an inquiry, quotation, or sales order) as carrying costs and revenues. This is especially recommended in mass production on the basis of sales orders.

In the standard system, the account assignment category is M.

You specify whether the sales order inventory is valuated or nonvaluated in the requirements class with the Valuation indicator.

If you use a nonvaluated sales order stock, you always flag the sales document item as carrying costs and revenues because otherwise it is not possible to valuate your inventories.

You can also carry materials from make-to-stock production in a sales order item that carries costs and revenues. This is recommended for replacement parts that are delivered for a material of the sales order stock and are withdrawn from the non-customer inventory. Here you enter E in the consumption posting field (settlement through sales order). In the standard system the account assignment category is B.

The other entries are irrelevant for Cost Object Controlling.

If you want to use sales orders, you should also check whether the Sales documents indicator is turned on for each fiscal year in the controlling area.

Maintain controlling area