To what do you assign a material listing procedure?

Question

Options

• ASales document type
• BSales item category
• CSales organization and sales document type
• DSales area, document pricing procedure, and customer pricing procedure

• A
  72% (34)
• B
  15% (7)
• C
  4% (2)
• D
  9% (4)

Explanation

In SAP SD, the material listing procedure is assigned directly to the sales document type, which tells the system which listing/exclusion rules to apply when a sales order of that type is created. This keeps the configuration clean and document-type-driven, allowing different order types to enforce different material restrictions.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (Sales item category): Item categories control how individual line items behave (delivery relevance, billing, etc.), not which materials are permitted for sale.
• C (Sales organization + sales document type): This combination is a common trap but adds an unnecessary organizational level - the sales document type alone carries the listing procedure.
• D (Sales area + document pricing procedure + customer pricing procedure): This triple combination describes exactly how pricing procedures are determined - students often confuse the two configurations.

Memory tip: Think "D is for Dollars (pricing)" - the three-way combo (sales area + doc pricing procedure + customer pricing procedure) belongs to pricing, not listing. Material listing is simpler: just the sales document type (one thing, option A).

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