Often, new variants are created by modifying existing product designs as you process the order. The important thing is to react quickly to customers' requirements. The customer determines the features of the product. A customer buying a car, for example, can choose the features of the car and combine these features as required.
The product configurator improves information exchange between sales, engineering, and production. Variant configuration helps the customer or salesperson to put together specifications for the product and ensure that the product can be produced from these specifications. It also ensures that production costs do not overstep the mark.
In order to keep this guide compact this model will be quite simple. Let's assume that we want to configure a computer. A computer consists of different components which will be chosen accordingly to the characteristics. Our computer is a "complex" material and consists of other materials. Therefore we need a bill of materials. Each component has got only one characteristic:. Bill of materials. The characteristics of the computer are not independent among each other.
Hence, we define some dependencies. As it is described above the components of the computer will be chosen by means of the chosen characteristics. To implement this functionality we need selection conditions. First of all we need to define the characteristics.
This can be done with the help of transaction CT After you're done with that you should create a new class which contains all previously created characteristics.
You have to consider one important fact: The class should be created with a class type which is intended for Variant Configuration SAP Standard: Class type Now you should apply the preconditions to the characteristics and its values. In order to create a bill of materials we need - of course - materials.
These materials can be assigned to a class. Moreover the class doesn't have to be of type because the materials are - in our case - not configurable. If you have created this class we can create each material with transaction: MM Here you must specify the industry sector and the material type of the material.
In our simple example it's enough to classify the material and to set a plant. In the Material Requirement Planning MRP data, enter the parameters for configurable material that control the transfer of requirement and availability checks. Each configurable object must have a configuration profile. The configuration profile for a material controls the configuration process in a sales order.
Use dependencies to allow all the combinations of features. Dependencies select exactly the right BOM components and operation to produce a variant product. We can use variant conditions to determine sales order prices like surcharges or discounts for a variant.
The price varies depending upon the packaging material. Create a sales order for cable material with characteristics like factor, individual length, and so on. Then calculate the order quantity and determine the package material category. Package material is automatically selected based on order quantity. Use object dependency for calculating order quantity using CU01 and assign it to configuration material.
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