Variant Configuration
Variant Configuration
Variant Configuration
Variant Configuration
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What do you mean by Variant Configuration
1. Variant Configuration
Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products in which customer determines the features of the
product. Objective of variant configuration is to react quickly to customers’ requirements.
Here it needs not to create separate material for each variant of a product. When companies introduce variant
configuration this often goes beyond a business process re-engineering project. Variant configuration offers an
opportunity to restructure product structures for which then processes are defined. This has a direct impact to
the core areas such as marketing and product data management
1. A material with different features or characteristics and options is known as configurable material. Example:
PC, Car.
2. Configurable materials are either created in a material type that allows the configuration (n the standard
system, the material type KMAT) or they are given the indicator Configurable in the material master record.
Material master should be with configurable profile. There should be strategy 25,Genral Item category should
be 0002
Super BOM Contains all the components for producing configurable product. It contains both variant as well as
non-variant parts required for producing configurable product.
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4.2.1 Super BOM configuration
This bill of material (BOM) of a configurable material contains all the components that are required to
manufacture the material. The BOM contains components that are only used in specific variants (variant parts),
as well as components that are used in all variants (non-variable parts).
Define all Characteristics and its values assign it to Class with type 300.
1. Assign Class with configurable material in Configuration profile.
2. BOM is created with all variant and non-variant items.
3. Define interdependency between objects by using Object Dependencies.
4. Assign class 300 with configurable product using configuration profile.
A configurable routing describes the production process for all variants of a product. Instead of creating a
routing for each variant of a product, you can create operations for one routing, or a "super" routing.
It is possible to maintain Object dependencies for following in super routing:
· Sequences
· Operations/sub-operations
· Production resource/tool assignments
The routing is configured by system, when order is created for KMAT material.
Characteristic is used to define the features of a configurable material. To enable to use characteristics to
configure a material, assign the material to a class of class type 300. The customer can choose from among
different options for each characteristic.
· Characteristics describe the properties of objects. The values of a characteristic specify these properties.
· Value assignment to characteristic may be single value or multiple value with required entry or restrict able
entry.
· In characteristic it is also possible to use table name and its field name in order to change the Object quantity
or values. I.e. BOM item quantity or Operation time, which is known as ?reference characteristic?.
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· In Restriction screen allowed Class types are entered i.e. for what are the class this characteristic may used. In
general for Variant configuration class 200 and 300 are used.
· It is also possible to assign Dependency to characteristic values maintained in Characteristic.
1. In Variant configuration, Class is used to hold the characteristics that describe about configurable material.
Class type to determine which object types can be classified.
2. Class is used in variant configuration if the class has a class type that supports variant configuration. In
Customizing for Classification, the Variant class type indicator must be set for the class type. In the standard
system, this is class type 300.
5. Configurable Profile
The configuration profile for a material controls the configuration process in sales order. Configurable profile
also used to define central settings for configuring the object. Using this profile it is possible to hide some of the
characteristic value defined during characteristic creation. We can assign any number profile for a configurable
material in which selection is based on either priority or manual selection during configuration.
By defining a filter in the configuration profile, possible to determine the scope of the BOM items to improve
system performance when exploding the BOM. The filter is active in high-level configuration, in result-oriented
BOMs, and in SET processing.
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Step I – Create class Characteristics (CT04)
2. Create
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1. Insert Description
2. Status as Released
4. Insert UOM as GB
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2. SAVE
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Step II – Create Class (CL01)
Note: Create class as class type 200 which is assigned to ROH material master & with class type 300 which is
assigned to FERT material master
Create two class for class type 200 with class characteristics RAM_GB & HARDDISK_GB respectively
3. Select Create
2. Status as Released
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2. Enter
4. SAVE
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Note: Typically create class with class characteristics HARDDISK_GB
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Note: Create class with class type 300
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Step III – Create Material Master Record (MM01)
4. Select Views(S)
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3. ENTER on Keyboard
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3. ENTER on Keyboard
2. Insert Class
3. ENTER on Keyboard
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Create MMR for FERT material as COMPUTER with assign class type 300
Imp note:
In Basic Data view : Tick mark for material is configurable, Assign configurable profile
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2. ENTER on Keyboard
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Step IV – Create configurable profile (CU41)
2. ENTER
2. ENTER
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4. SAVE
3. Status as
Released
2. Class as 300
1. Insert name
of profile as
material code
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Step V – Assign configurable Profile in Material Master Record (MM02)
1. Assign
2. Enter on Keyboard
configurable profile
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Note : When you create sales order, sytem will ask for variant for customer
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Step VI – Create Super BOM (CS01)
1. Enter
2. Enter on Keyboard
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ENTER
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ENTER
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Step VII – Create Sales order (VA01)
Note: Please take help of SD consultant to create sales order
6. ENTER
5. Insert Plant
4. Insert Quantity
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1. Select Continue
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1. SAVE
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Step VIII – Create Production order with reference to Sales Order (CO08)
5. ENTER
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2. Save order
You will see that system has picked BOM component fro Super BOM as per customer variant in sales order
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