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Alex Mitrovich 90 posts since May 4, 2006 Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:08 PM

Good morning!

Question regarding Order Category assignment:

I am in the following path location in SPRO:

Plant Maintenance and Customer Service->Maintenance and Service Processing>Maintenance and Service Orders->Functions and Settings for Order Types->Define Change Docs, Collective Purc. Req. Indicator, Operation No. Interval

Looking at this configuration, I noticed that our Order Category values are not consistent. (you can view Order Category by clicking on the 'print' button once configuration screen is open - view name is V_T399X_S).

Possible entries for Order Category are the following: 01 02 03 04 05 06 Internal Order (Controlling) Accrual Calculation Order (Controlling) Model Order (Controlling) CO Production Order Product Cost Collector QM Order

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10 20 30 40 50 60 70

PP Production Order Network Maintenance order Process Order Inspection Lot Personnel Order Shipping deadlines

I would assume that all of my PM order type should have category assignment of 30. However, some of my PM order types hold no assignment. Can someone explain the following two points:

1. Where in SPRO is Order Category assigned to Order Type 2. What is the purpose of Order Category.

Thank you very much in advance! Alex

Narasimhan Venugopal 1,763 posts since Jan 8, 2004 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:19 PM

Alex, The Order category is automatically assigned based on the application(PM, PP, PS , Controlling etc) within which you are creating the Order type.

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The purpose of Order category to have different business rules and functionality for Different applications.

Hope it helps.

Regards Narasimhan

Alex Mitrovich 90 posts since May 4, 2006 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:23 PM

Hi Narasimhan,

Thank you for your response. Do you know where in SPRO I could find that configuration point (assigning order category to order type)?

Narasimhan Venugopal 1,763 posts since Jan 8, 2004 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:44 PM

Alex, You cannot do the assignment. The assignment happens automaticaly based on the application that you are configuring. For ex if you are in PM module, and trying to create a New Order type the order category 30 gets assigned to it automatically. If you are in controlling module and trying to create a New internal Ordertype Order category 01 gets assigned to it.

The order categories are defaulted in the SAP System and characterize the technical characteristics of the order. An order category, for example, specifies the transactions that you can use to process an order.

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Regards Naarsimhan

Alex Mitrovich 90 posts since May 4, 2006 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:48 PM

Hi Narasimhan,

That makes sense and ties perfectly with my problem, which is this:

PM Order type for three of my plants does not have order category assignment (!?). The rest of my PM order types hold order category assignment of 30, just like I would expect.

Thank you, Alex

Narasimhan Venugopal 1,763 posts since Jan 8, 2004 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:53 PM

Alex, A order type cant be created without an assignment to the Order category. Have a look at table T003O for the category to which the Order type belongs to.The view that you are looking at is for increments for the Operation number.

Hope it helps.

regards

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Narasimhan

Alex Mitrovich 90 posts since May 4, 2006 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 5:21 PM

Hi Narasimhan,

The view I am looking at is one behind the config which is located in this step:

Plant Maintenance and Customer Service->Maintenance and Service Processing>Maintenance and Service Orders->Functions and Settings for Order Types->Define Change Docs, Collective Purc. Req. Indicator, Operation No. Interval

View is: V_T399X_S (Increment for Automatic Operation Number)

My point of confusion pertains to the fact that category field is null for order type belonging to three of our plants. From the data integrity perspective, I don't see how this would be possible, given that this assignment is performed by SAP automatically. My only theory would be that it happened during SAP upgrade, or that there is a problem with how the view is written.

Thank you! Alex

Thyagarajan Krishnamurthy 4,978 posts since May 23, 2007 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 1, 2009 4:45 PM

hi

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if you have defined the order type in T code OIOA ,then all the order types will fall under the category 30 only ,you cannot able to change the same.

it is not possible to specify another order category there .

regards thyagarajan

Ramesh Chandra Soni 234 posts since Aug 6, 2008 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 2, 2009 8:54 AM

Hi Alex, With Std Order type Copy & make new Order Type by default System will have Cat of 30. Regards, Ramesh

Alex Mitrovich 90 posts since May 4, 2006 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 2, 2009 2:24 PM

Thank you for advice Ramesh.

Alex Mitrovich 90 posts since May 4, 2006 Re: Assignment of Order Category to Order Type Oct 2, 2009 2:49 PM

Hello All -

Thank you for all your input. I will mark this thread as closed. Assumption will be that this view is not displaying correct values, or that a problem occurred during SAP upgrade. We will keep an eye on this issue, however, it does not seem to create any problems for us.

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Thanks again.

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