The process categories differentiate between the different types of procurement or consumption of materials.
For example, the process categories "production" and "purchase order" represent two different methods of procuring a material. Since different methods of procurement or consumption are handled by the SAP System in different ways, the system updates different types of data. On the basis of this data, characteristics can be derived and used to create procurement processes, procurement alternatives, and consumption alternatives. For example, the following characteristics can be updated for a production process:
Plant Material Production plant Planning plant Production versionThe following characteristics can be determined for the procurement process "purchase order":
Plant Material Purchasing organization or vendorYou can specify which of these characteristics is used to create procurement alternative or processes in the Controlling level.
More terms such as process category in Dictionary P.
- Manual Portal Component:
- Help classes and other files that serve in producing the information and content of the portal. A portal component is distributed in portal archive format. It can be added to or deleted from the portal at process category definition.
- Manual Plan Status:
- Help A customer-defined setting that determines whether a plan is active or inactive, and whether or not employees can enroll in a plan process category explain.
- Manual Price Level (MM-PUR):
- Help In vendor evaluation, a subcriterion of the main criterion price . This subcriterion expresses the relationship of a vendor's price to the average price of other vendors process category what is.
- Manual Pegging Strategy:
- Help specifies in which order the system should cover requirements in dynamic pegging and in which order the system should use the product receipts in the pegging interval to cover a requirement. The process category meaning.
- Manual Posting Rule (CO-PC):
- Help A rule that determines which results analysis data (such as work in process) is transferred to a specific G/L account when the data is settled to Financial Accounting process category abbreviation.
