Variant Configuration User Manual
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Contents
Purpose.......................................................................................................................................................3
Scenario.......................................................................................................................................................3
Configuration...............................................................................................................................................4
Create Characteristics..............................................................................................................................4
Create Class.............................................................................................................................................5
Creating a configurable material.............................................................................................................8
Create a Super BOM..............................................................................................................................15
Create Configuration Profile..................................................................................................................18
Assign Object Dependencies to the items in the Super BOM................................................................22
Create Precondition and Selection Condition dependencies.................................................................28
Super Routing........................................................................................................................................33
Configuration Test T-Code: CU50..........................................................................................................37
Business Process........................................................................................................................................40
Sales Order............................................................................................................................................40
MRP Run................................................................................................................................................48
Creating Outbound Delivery..................................................................................................................57
Creating Transfer Order for Delivery to pick the material.....................................................................57
Purpose
User manual provides the configuration guide and application of variant configuration in Production
Planning.
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Scenario
Scenario demonstrates the MTO variant configuration with characteristic parameter entry in the sales
order, transfer of requirements from the sales order to MRP, conversion of planned orders to
production orders and selection of appropriate materials and operations from the super BOMs and
super routings and finally creating deliveries to the finished product.
Certain configurable material characteristics and its values are displayed in the sales order based on the
preceding characteristics values.
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Configuration
Create Characteristics
Create the characteristics for the selection parameters of the variant with Data Type CHAR or NUM for
calculations
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Assign Values
Create Class
Class Type 300 and 200
Class Type 300
Create class type 300 for variant entry
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Class Type 200
Create Class Type 200 for mentioning parameters for configurable materials
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Select ‘Allowed in BOMs indicator’, enter Base Unit of measure and Resultant item Category ‘L’
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Creating a configurable material
Configurable material can be created in following ways
a) Mark configurable indicator in BASIC DATA 2 for material types FERT or HALB
b) Create a material with material type KMAT
Assign class type 300 for finished and semi-finished materials
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Set item category grp as ‘0002’
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Set Strategy Group as ‘25’ Make to Order for configurable material
Set Availability Check to ‘02’ Individual Requirements
Set BOM explosion/dependent requirements to ‘1’
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Material with Class Type 200
Class Type is assigned directly to raw materials with mentioning the variant parameters in the material
master and this class will be used as selection condition
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Create a Super BOM
Create a BOM with all possible materials present in variant materials
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Assign Class Type 200 for selection of variant materials
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Create Configuration Profile
Create configuration profile for the materials using CU41 Transaction
Enter Profile Priority, Profile name and class type 300 and set to ‘released’ status
Double click on Profile for detailed data entry
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Go to Confign initial screen
Set Configuration Parameters to Plnd/Prod Order BOM Explosion to Multilevel
Application to PP01 Production General
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Similarly a configuration profile for material seats is created
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Assign Object Dependencies to the items in the Super BOM
Select the material and Click on dependency indicator
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Enter the dependency characteristic value
Here the characteristic is SEAT_COLOR with value BE and $PARENT refers final parent material of
multilevel BOM in general but not material specific.
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Select the parent material BOM and select the items and assign the object dependencies
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The condition for object dependency for the engine selection requires two conditions
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The Characteristic ENGINE has to be displayed only when the CAR model is selected to STANDARD to
give options for choosing 1800CC or 2000CC displacement capacity.
The 2000CC displacement capacity engine has to be chosen only when the STANDARD model color is
BLACK
Select the object dependency indicator in the Basic Data Tab
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Create Precondition and Selection Condition dependencies
For precondition dependency select PRECONDITION option and the Status is initially set to 2 ‘In
Preparation’
Click Dependency Editor.
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Enter Dependency condition
Go to Basic Data for and set the status to 1 Released
Create selection condition dependency
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Go to Basic Data and choose Selection Condition option and assign dependency values
Assigning Preconditions to ENGINE characteristic values to display the values based on the model and
color characteristics
Select a value
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Maintain Precondition dependency for the characteristic value 1800CC
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In order to display the characteristic value 2000CC the user must select first STANDARD model and
COLOR as Black
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Super Routing
All the operations required for making different possible configurations and object dependencies for
appropriate operation is entered
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Object Dependencies for the super routing for sub-item configurable material
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Assign components to various operations
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Configuration Test T-Code: CU50
Enter the Characteristic values for Car and Seats and click on
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Appropriate materials for the configured materials are been selected in all the BOM levels
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Business Process
Sales Order
Create standard sales order
Enter the item number and quantity to enter the variant configuration
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Enter the parameters for the CAR variant
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Case 1: Standard Model Selected and Color other than BLACK
Engine Displacement Parameter is displayed but only option available is 1800CC
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Case 2:
Car Model Type entered is STANDARD and Color is BLACK, the engine displacement option shows two
values 1800CC and 2000CC
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Case 3: Non STANDARD car model
When the car model is selected with a value other than STANDARD the ENGINE displacement option is
not visible
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After entering the seat parameters click on the button to check for availability on the required
delivery date. If the delivery date is too early then the configuration doesn’t explode and select the
materials
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MRP Run
Perform Single Item, Multi level MRP run
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Converting all the planned orders into respective Purchase Orders and Production Orders
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Production Order with reference to sales order is generated for material number SEATS
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A Variant BOM with seat components with color BIEGE is selected and assigned to the production order
Appropriate Operation from super routing is assigned to the Production order
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Confirming the Production order for the material SEATS
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Production Order for the material CAR
Components for Variant Specific Production Order
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Variant specific operation for the CAR assigned to Production Order
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After confirming all the production orders the Stock specific to sales order is available for delivery
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Creating Outbound Delivery
Creating Transfer Order for Delivery to pick the material
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Post Goods Issue for the delivery and save the document
Stock Requirements List After Delivery
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