What are the steps of customization to pricing for header level or item level then?

By: John

You can create a sales bom, and price it at header level or sub level.

If you want to assemble the products and depending upon the assemblies you want to price.   For eg. if the customer asks for a certain combinationa of Material A, B and C respectively, then you create a Material Master record Material D with item category group as LUMF.  While the Materials A, B and C are created with standared item category groups NORM only. 

Then create a sales BOM using Tcode CS01 and enter the following details: 
Material : Material D 
Plant : Plant in which you created the material. 
BOM Usage : 5 (Sales and Distribution) 
then give the Materials A, B, and C and give their respective quantities. 

Before you have to create pricing condition records for Materials A, B, and C. 
Then configure the item categories ( T - code : VOV4). 
When processing the sales order, just give the Material D and the system will pick up the corresponding assemblies for that material and populate in the order. 
The item category for the header item will be TAP and the item cateory for the items will be TAN.

In this cas the Material D is called as the higher level Item , and all the assemblies are called as the sub items.  Here the subitems are relevant for pricing and delivery where as the header item is not relevant for neither pricing nor delivery. It just acts as a text item. 

This type of configaration of BOM is known as pricing at item level. This is used when you dont know what quantities of assemblies the customer is going to order and if the price of the assembly keeps varies. 

There is another way of configaring BOM which is pricing at header level.  The difference is that the Material Master D has to be confugured using the item category group ERLA. 

Creation of BOM is same. 
But you need to maintain the pricing condition record for the header item. 

The item categories in this case would be 
Header item : TAQ 
Sub item TAE; 
Where the header item is relevant for pricing and delivery. and subitems are not relevant for neither the pricing nor the delivery.  Depending upon your requirement you configure accordingly.

In Summary:

-->Befor going to create sales BOM you need to create:
Master data for that Header Material and Components in the MM01 transaction.

-->If you want Header price you create Header Materil with ERLA Itemcategory group.

-->If you want pricing at item level you create header material with LUMF Itemcategory group.

-->To create Sales BOM go to the transaction CS01 there you give enter the data

Header Material which you have created in the MM01 transaction. 

Delivering Plant. 

BOM Usage as '5' (Sales and Distribution) 

***Then proceed with enter system will take you the BOM detail screen here you maintain the details of the components (How many components you need to make a Header material)

-->Check the item category determinetion settings in the transaction VOV4.

-->Maintain the Pricing procedure according to that.

-->Now you can create sales order with the BOM material 

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