Manual Schedule Line Category is Not Supported in AFS

Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Manual Item category with standard materials ....................................................................................... 3 Manual schedule line category with standard materials .......................................................................... 4 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Manual Item category with AFS materials ................................................................................................ 5 Manual schedule line category with AFS materials .................................................................................. 6 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Technical background ................................................................................................................................... 7

Introduction In SAP, we have an option to change the item category or schedule line category manually in the sales order. Prior to do it in the sales order, you need to customize the item category / schedule line category assignment. You can assign “Manual Item category” in the IMG path, Sales and Distribution / Sales / Sales Documents / Sales Document Item / Assign Item Categories

Same manner you can assign “Manual Schedule Line category” in the IMG path, Sales and Distribution / Sales / Sales Documents / Schedule Lines / Assign Schedule Line Categories

If you have above settings in place, you can manually override the default item category / Schedule line category in the sales order item.

Manual Item category with standard materials Let’s see this scenario with a standard material “AW99”. When I create the sales order, system determine the item category “TAN” in to the line item.

But I can change the item category field in the sales order “Item Overview” tab. (Provided new item category is assigned as a “Manual Item category” in the customizing)

Manual schedule line category with standard materials Let’s see this scenario with my standard material “AW99”. System automatically determines the schedule line category “CP” based on the item category and the MRP group of the material.

But I can change this schedule line category in the “Schedule lines” tab to a new one.

Conclusion Therefore both item category and schedule line category can be manually changed in the sales order for standard materials.

Manual Item category with AFS materials Now let’s look at the same scenario with my test AFS material “AW01” System determines the item category “TAN” automatically.

I can manually change it in the sales order to an item category which is assigned as a manual item category in customizing.

Manual schedule line category with AFS materials Schedule line category “CP” determined automatically as well.

But this field is not editable in the “Schedule Lines” tab. Now let’s try adding a new schedule line (In to the same line item) with a “Manual schedule line category” which is assigned in customizing. Once you change it and press the enter key, below message will appear;

Details of the message:

This means we cannot change the schedule line category for AFS materials, like the way we do with standard materials. Conclusion With AFS materials only item category can be changed manually in the sales order. Schedule line category change is not supported by AFS. If you want to change the schedule line category in the sales order, you have to start changing the item category.

Technical background This limitation is coded in the Include - MJ3ASF8Z under the Form - J_3A_FIELD_MODIFICATION System is checking whether the material entered is an AFS material or not. If it is an AFS material, program is not let you change it.

Let’s look at this in the debug mode for more details:

As per above, if the material is AFS (J_3A_AFS = X), system blocks you there (SCREEN-INPUT = 0). Now let’s try to add a new schedule line manually with a different schedule line category and see where system is generating this information message 8W-345. It is coming from the below code. Include - FV45EF0V_VBEP-ETTYP_PRUEFEN

Here I can see system is checking for the AFS materials using Form routine – “J_3A_AFS_CHECK” and the result is = 6.

Therefore now system set the manually entered schedule line category (VBEP-ETTYP) to blank, so that system can determine it automatically based on the configuration. Note: Exception 5 and 6 are defined to identify AFS materials.

After that system issue the information message 8W 345

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