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Account Assignment Category in SAP

The document outlines the configuration of Account Assignment Categories in SAP MM, detailing their purpose in determining the type of purchase and associated accounts for invoicing and goods receipt. It covers the steps to maintain these categories, including mandatory fields, options for consumption posting, distribution methods, and account modifications. Additionally, it explains the relationship between Account Assignment and Item Categories, emphasizing the flexibility to create custom configurations as needed.

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Account Assignment Category in SAP

The document outlines the configuration of Account Assignment Categories in SAP MM, detailing their purpose in determining the type of purchase and associated accounts for invoicing and goods receipt. It covers the steps to maintain these categories, including mandatory fields, options for consumption posting, distribution methods, and account modifications. Additionally, it explains the relationship between Account Assignment and Item Categories, emphasizing the flexibility to create custom configurations as needed.

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Account Assignment Category in SAP

MM, how to configure?

Account Assignment Category:


It indicates what type of purchase the company is doing in Purchasing
Documents, whether it is for consumption or anything relation to orders,
projects etc. The nature of this also indicates which accounts it needs to be
charged for when the incoming invoice and Goods Receipt are posted.

spro - Material Management - Purchasing - Account Assignment


Path
- Maintain Account Assignment Categories

Tcode OME9

Depending on the requirements you can create customized ones as well. Select
one line item and click on the icon (with the magnifying class). Or if you want
to create one Hit the "New Entries" icon.
Certain configuration needs to be maintained for a particular account
assignment category and the screen selection. Below image shows the
configuration and screen selection..

The above screen will pop-up to maintain the configs. For now, lets consider K-
Cost Center

So, for "K" only GL Account, Cost Center needs to be mandatory i.e. user need
to specify the respective value for this and for rest can be maintained as
optional/hidden/display.

In the detailed Information tab, we can see certain options

• assg.changeable (Account Assignment Changeable) – It indicates


whether the specified Account Assignment category can be changed in
Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt or not.
• Consumption Posting – It specifies whether the goods that are procured
are used for which purpose like for personal usage or for a project. Some
options include Consumption, Asset, Unknown, Accounting via Project/
Sales Order
• Distribution - It is used whether we can distribute the ordered qty on
Percentage basis, Amount or Quantity basis.

o For example, let say you need to buy 300 chairs for IT dept but HR
dept also needs 200 chairs. So, you will create a purchase order for
500 chairs with Account Assignment Category ‘K’. If distribution is
configured than you can split the qty in 300 - 200 and assign them
to their respective GL Account/ Cost Center in Purchase Order.
Since each department would be having it's own Cost Center.

• Account Modification – IT indicates what GL account it will be posted


through the Account Determination
• Acct.assgt (Derive Account Assignment) – If this is configured for an
account assignment category, then the GL account and Cost Center will
be pulled automatically by the system. (Pre-requisite: In Acct
Modification whatever value is maintained for that a corresponding GL
account should be defined in Tcode OBYC) This can be used for both
materials having MMR or without MMR.
• ID: Acct Assgt Scrn (Account Assignment Screen) – Defines whether it is
a single or multiple account assignment.

After this we have certain checkboxes like Goods Receipt/ Invoice Receipt –
Defines whether Goods Receipt will be relevant or not for the items created
with this account assignment category.

After completing all the steps you can create the Purchase Orders using an
Account Assignment Category.

So here we complete the configuration about the Account Assignment


Categories.
Let’s move to what combination of Account Assignment and Item Category is
allowed in Purchasing document.

Spro - Material Management - Purchasing - Account Assignment –


Path Define Combination of Item Categories/Account Assignment
Categories

Tcode OMG0

It is a mapping between the Item Categories and Account Assignment that


indicates what are the relevant and correct combination that can be used in
purchasing document.

Okay, now you might be wondering what are item category?

Item categories are defined to provide additional control functions for the
documents to meet the demands resulting from different business
transactions.

Basically it has the same functions as of Account Assignment but with a


different set of usage.

There are different Item categories configured in system. You can define/create
them here
spro - Material Management - Purchasing – Define External
Path
Representation for Item Categories

Tcode OMH4

The above are some standard Item category defined by SAP, but always open to
create a custom one as per the requirements.

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