How to use Classification Functionality in Vendor Master
Purpose
The goal of this Document is to provide overview of “Vendor Master Classification” Functionality .This Document covers the background & steps to activate the Vendor Master Classification.
Background
There is often a Business need to classify the vendors for reporting & audit purposes. SAP provides standard Functionality in Vendor master to classify the Vendors according to Business needs.
The below is the path to maintain the Classification in the Vendor Master.
Configuration steps for Vendor master Classification
We can utilize SAP Class & Method Functions to configure Vendor Master Classification.
For example the vendor master needs to be classified as “Type of Vendor” the same can be achieved in following three steps
1) 1) Creation of Characteristics
Execute the Transaction CT04 & create characteristics as follows
1) 2) Creation of Class
Execute Transaction CL02 & Assign the characteristics VEN_TYPE in Class
The Class Type is 010 (Vendor Class)
1) 3) Assign the Characteristics in Vendor Master
In this way we can maintain the Vendor Master Classification & reports can be extracted for business needs.
Also please try to provide the material classification..
It's a nice and very useful document. Thanks to Mr.Madavan Krishnamurthy.
Thanks for your comments Anand.Can you also rate this Document
Good One
good one
It is a good one, guess typo error for the class create/execution it is Cl01/02
What really would be nice is to show the best way to search for classfication and characterstics... I'm just wondering if there is a best practice for that without customizing anything.
Cl30n I believe can give you just about everything you could need.
FF
CL30n can be used to get the details
Isn't that exactly what I said?
Why waste are you wasting time with repetitive posts?
have not seen your post, will take care of it
Thanks Senthil.I have cirrected the typo error,can you pls rate the content
good one!!
Thanks for sharing the info. Appreciate the effort and time spend 🙂
it is realy nice ... more information about classification of vendor..
in CL20N we can assign object to classes..
Hi Madhavan
Thank you so much for the document it is really helpful. This is what I was looking for!
Moreover, it would be really great if you could also give an example scenario on how this can be used, as I am a newbie in SAP MM and Logistics.
Happy New Year, by the way!
Regards
Dhana
Very useful. Thanks.
Good document. It would be great if you add reporting part. Are there any standard reports which shows these characteristics with vendor code ?
I was searching for reports but then I can only find this can be acheived by custom report. You need to link multiple tables or use on BAPI to get the information.
BAPI_OBJCL_GETDETAIL
Table:
KSSK - Pass vendor number in Object (add preceding Zeros) and class type '010'.
KLAH - This will give the class
KSML - give give more detals of vendor classification
AUSP - Here pass the vendor number as the Object and the Internal char. from the previus table KSML and you will get the details.
Regards,
Vijay V
good document !!
New information.
I learn a new thing today.
Hi Madhavan,
we already use Vendor Classification in our Company, but now we have a policy issue.
Now we had an audit, and the consultant told that must be only AFC to create and modify each view on Vendor Master.
Now, if Purchasing can't modify Vendor Master, how can they use Classification by themselves?
Is there any object related, to create a role/profile for Purchasing that allows only to create and modify Vendor Classification without creating and modifying Vendor Master?
Thanks in advance.
Daniele
Try using transaction CLMM. I'm not sure about security but my guess is that security can limit use by specific class types. ( I believe security object C_TCLA_BKA)
In CLMM they can use "Set and change values" or "Assign values in Matrix" depending on number of values they need to change.
Craig
You can maintain the classification with transaction CL24N
Hi Jurgen,
I don't need to maintain only the classification, I do neet to link that to the Vendor; so if AFC creates a Vendor only centrally via XK01, can Purchasing use the path Environment > Classification and edit classification for that Vendor, if they are not allowed to modify the Vendor (for example using MK02)?
try it in CL24N, I was able to maintain the classification of my vendor there. I tested it before I added the reply. To your question, the answer is no, they can only get the classification in change mode if they have authority for vendor master change, e.g .MK02.
alright, that was the point. So, they can't, thanks for confirming my thoughts!
Hi Jurgen.. Have you tried the CLMM transaction? i just tested this in a prod system where I can't edit a vendor. But using CLMM I was able to get to the edit screen of the vendor classificatoin. I didn't try to save it for obvious reasons. 😉 But it doesn't appear I need vendor edit access in order to make a change to the vendor classification data.
Craig
CLMM works too
Great document.. made me learn something new today!
With the S4Hana finance, in 1503 does the above functionality still exist??
Hi Colleagues,
i have a question regarding the display of the Characteristics in the vendor master.
As i can see from my tests, all the characteristics of all the classes are displayed in a "flat" list in one screen.
So when a large number of classes with an even larger number of charactersitcs is used, the list of characteristics can get very long and confusing. Is there a way to maybe introduce different tabs in the characteristics table per class - and thus to split the characteristics?
Thank you very much for your help!
Hello All,
I want to configure same functionality but can i use it in Business partner S/4 system, If yes then is there any addition configuration needed?