SAP Q&A : What is Account Assignment Category in SAP?

To know what is Account Assignment Category in SAP you must Know the what is  Consumable material, & how the procurement of Consumable item Done

Consumable Material :
: Material that 

• are not subject to inventory management at the store location,
• are not managed at value basis in Inventory management
• material which procured with/without maintaining the material master record
• Eg.
• Stationery Items,
• Computer operating systems,
• Company promotion item

Procurement Of Consumable Material :

•  Consumable material master creating using  Following Material type 
• UNBW:Non Valuated materials
• NLAG: Non stock material
• you have to Create the PO using T Code- ME21N
• select the material if you created under material type UNBW / NLAG or Directly write description in material description field without selecting any number in item code
• when you press enter , system will ask you to select the item code or maintain the account assignment Category 

What is account assignment Category 

• when you Create the materiel in SAP, you maintain the material valuation in material master , but in case Consumable item you don't maintain the valuation .
•  but in Finance prospective, you must maintain the material valuation & here come the  account assignment Category  in picture
• When you want to procure the Consumable items you must specify the account assignment Category
• account assignment Category determine 
• the account assignment object category that is to be charged ((cost center, sales order, and so on))
• which account assignment data you must provide
• which account are debited when goods receipt or Invoice is posted

Account Assignment Categories

Description	Required account assignment data
Asset (A)	Main asset number and sub-number
Order ( F)	Order and G/L account number
Production order	Production order number
Cost center(K)	Cost center and G/L account number
Sales order (C)	Sales order and G/L account number
Individual customer requirement(E)	Sales order and G/L account number
Project	Project and G/L account number
Unknown	None

Note: You can change the account assignment category after entering the item provided that field selection has been set up accordingly in Customizing

ACCOUNT ASSIGNMENT CATEGORY RELATED TRANSACTION CODES

SPRO - Customizing - Edit Project   Basis - Customizing Project Management (IMG)

OBYC - C FI Table T030   FI - Basic Functions

OKB9 - Change Automatic Account Assignment   CO - Overhead Cost Controlling

ME21N - Create Purchase Order   MM - Purchasing

OME9 - C MM-PUR Acct. Assignment Categories   MM - Basic Functions

MIRO - Enter Incoming Invoice   MM - Invoice Verification

ME51N - Create Purchase Requisition   MM - Purchasing

MIGO - Goods Movement   MM - Inventory Management

FS00 - G/L acct master record maintenance   FI - Basic Functions

KA02 - Change Cost Element   CO - Overhead Cost Controlling

OMS2 - Maintain Material Types   Logistics - Material Master

OLME - IMG View: Purchasing   MM - Basic Functions

ME22N - Change Purchase Order   MM - Purchasing

RZ20 - CCMS Monitoring   Basis - Monitoring

SE16 - Data Browser   Basis - Workbench Utilities

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