Definicja category (IS-AFS-BD)

An AFS material characteristic that allows the material to be divided into different qualities or countries of origin, for example.

Category structures, stock and requirements categories and their values are defined in Customizing and are combined plant-specifically into coverage strategies. By assigning coverage strategies to AFS materials, you not only determine the valid stock and requirements categories for the corresponding materials, but also which requirements should be covered by which stock categories. The definition of categories therefore always influences the MRP.

If you have assigned a master grid in addition to the coverage strategy to an AFS material, you can combine grid values and categories into stock keeping units (for example, quality A / country of origin D for T-shirt size 38 / color yellow).