Determination Rule in SAP SD
# Determination Object
1 Sales document
2 Item categorydetermination for
Sales document
3 Schedule line category
determination
4 Delivery document determination Delivery document default type attached to  Sales document type
5 Item category determination for
Delivery document
6 Shipping Point Determination
7 Route determination
8 Storage location determination
9 Picking determination
10 Packing determination
11 POD
12 Billing document determination
Rules for determination
Sales Area
+ Document Type
Document type
+ Item category Group
+ Usage
+ High level Item Category 
Item category of the corresponding item
+ MRP type of the Material 
Copy form Sales document
or
Delivery Document type
+ Item category Group
+ Usage
+ High level Item Category
Delivery Plant
+ Shipping condition (Customer Master - Sold-to Party)
+ Loading group(Matrial Master)
Departure zone of the shipping pt(Customizing)
+ shipping condition(SP)
+ Transport group(MM)
+ Transportation zone of the Ship to party(General Data)
Shipping point
+ Delivery plant
+ storage condition
On bases of MALA rule
Delivery Plant
+ Loading Group
+ Storage condition(MM)
(storage rule also assignment to Delivery type)
Package usage
This object use for confirmation of delivery, based on which billing document
can create
Sales document type is maintained as default type
 For Billing plan, Billing Type maintain under Billing Plan Type of Maintain Date
Category for Billing Plan Type

13 Account determination Chart of Accounts

+ Sales Org
+ Customer Account grp (Customer Master - Payer)
+ Material Account grp (Material Master)
+ Account key

14 Business area determination Plant/Valutaion Area

OR
Sales area
OR
Item division + Plant 

15 Company code determination Sales organization uniquely attached to Company code

16 Partner determination At -Account group level, sales document header level, item level, sales
document delivery level, Shipment level, Billing document level and item level

17 Delivery Plant determination The system will determine Plant details at following in given sequence
Customer - Material info record
From customer master Ship-to Party
From Material Master

18 Output determination Output determination at Sales document level, Delivery level, Billing level

19 Price determination Pricing procedure

Sales Area
+ Document Pricing Procedure indicator from Sale/Billing Document type
+ Pricing Pricing Procedure indicator from Customer Master (Sold-to Party)

20 Text determination 1)Customer Material Information Record

2) Customer Master (General text, Accounting text, Sales text)
3) Material master text (Sales text or PO text) 

21 Warehouse determination Ware house number

+ Plant
+ Storage location

22 Lean Warehouse determination Lean ware house activate,

Plant
+ Storage Location
+ Ware house number

23 Tax determination Destination Country of Ship-to Party

+ Departure Country of Shipping Point
+ Tax Classification for Customer from Customer Master
 + Tax Classification for Material Master

24 Routing determination Shipping point

+ Delivery plant
+ Loading condition
+ Shipping condition

25 Material determination Create condition record

Maintain Customer Material record

26 Product substitute Create condition record

27 Product Exclusion Create condition record(Not to sale any particular product)

28 Product listing Create condition record (Sale of one particular product)

29 Credit check Credit check at Sales document level OR at Delivery OR at Good issue Risk
group at Sales document level and Risk category from Customer Master, Item
category credit check should be activate

30 Incomplete log Incomplete log assign to Status group, which is assign to Sales document,
Item category or Schedule line level

31 Rebate condition setup customer master billing info checked, Sales organization activate, Billing
document activate

32 Sales Area Customer Master

33 Free goods Sales area + Document determination procedure (Sales document type) +
Customer determination procedure

Functions of Item Category in SAP SD Process

 Item category is used to define whether system run automatic pricing for an item or not
 Is it required the item appears on an invoice or not.
 Which fields are recorded in the incompletion log for respective item category if they were not entered in
sales order.

 Item category is used to define which partner function belong to which item

 Whether the item appears on a delivery or not.
 The delivery relevance indicator is only for items without schedule line. For example, you can indicate that
as a text item is relevance for delivery so that the system copies this into delivery document. Item category has
indicator to define whether you can create schedule lines for the item
 You can configure an item category whether business data(incoterms and payment terms) at item level
should differ from business data from header level.
 Bill of material:
o To determine how far the BOM should be exploding in the sales document, you need to define the
extent of the structure of the item category of the main item.
o In customizing for item category, you control which item(s) are relevant to pricing and how you want
to implement requirement transfer.
o All items in BOM that you want to control in the sales document must be flagged as ‘relevance for
sales’.
 Item category is maintained as functions of copy control and updating the document flow.
 In document referencing, completion rule is defined at item category.
 Maintain value contract material at item category to determine account assignment, taxes and statistical
update.
 Item category is used to define billing plan type.
 Billing relevance indicator is mentioned in item category. Indicator A is for delivery related billing and
indicator B is for order related billing.
 Billing block is set at item category.

Determination of Schedule Line Category in SAP SD

Schedule line category:

In SAP SD process, schedule line category in sales order decides whether or how the system passes on
requirements to materials requirements planning (MRP).

Determination:

Schedule line category is determined based on Item Category and MRP type

 Item category is determined(sales document type + item category group + item usage + higher level item
category) in sales order(screen 1.0)
 MRP type is defined in material master - MRP 1(screen 1.1)

Screen 1.0
Screen 1.1

Determination Rule:

1. Item Category + MRP type

2. Item Category (if there is no MRP type defined), refer screen 1.2 for detail
This assignment is maintained in t-code VOV6(screen 1.2)

Screen 1.2

SAP SD Functions Keynote

You can crack most of the stuff in SAP SD Certification exam if you remember SAP SD functions very smartly. In this blog I have
listed few functions and where they are affected in any SAP SD documents. 

Billing Block:

Sales document header

Sales document item

Delivery document header

Delivery document item

Delivery block:
Sales document header

Sales document schedule line level

Controlling the incompletion log

Sales document types

Item Categories

Schedule Line categories

Partner functions

Sales activities

Delivery types

Delivery item categories

Partner Functions

Sales document header

Sales document item

Delivery document header

Billing document header

Billing document item

Text determination

Customer master records

Material master records

Customer - material info records

Sales documents header

Sales document item

Text can maintained manually and as a standard text