Configurable material with make to stock

[Former Member]

Hi,

My scenario is like final products Distemper red 1kg, distemper red 5kg and 10kg like this.But Sales order will be Distemper red 1000kg.Based upon the availability of stock customer will get 5kg,10kg Depending upon the pack, price also differs depends upon the pack.

In RG1 register they are updating only Distemper red total stock.

If i go for variant configuration i should create distemper as variant and all finished material as normal and variant should be assigned(distemper red) in mrp 3 view.

Moreover planning also done for only distemper red while packing they will go for different quantity.

For Configurable material PIR can't be done.

So how to proceed further, what about RG1 resister it should not update all pack wise only distemper red total quantity.

Regards,

S.Suresh.

[Former Member]

no sol

[Former Member]

But you can create material variant which can be made to stock.

[Former Member]

Hi,

This is paint manufacturing (PP-PI) industry. I need the guidelines with scenario who mapped practically earlier, this will be easier to understand.

I little familiar with variant configuration up to my knowledge without APO module Configurable material can't be plan for Make-to-Stock. So please guide elaborate about this then i can understand more, Earlier i used sales order view item category 0004(Make to stock variant) and for that all requirements are made in like VOV4 t-code and some other settings. Some of the components i assigned 25 strategy. So please guide me elaborately how to proceed.

Regards,

S.Suresh.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As BNR said you need to work with Material Variants for having Variant Configuration with Make to Stock.

Pls. find the helpful details for maintaining Material Variants :

Maintaining Material Master Records for Variants

Prerequisites

A configurable material exists, for which you create a material variant. The configurable material

has all the necessary settings in the configuration profile, class assignment, dependencies, and

so on.

Procedure

1. From the material master menu, choose Material Create general Immediately.

Enter a material number, an industry sector, and a material type for materials kept in

stock.

You must process the following views:

• Basic Data*

• Sales Data*

• MRP Data*

For material variants, you maintain the usual material master data, such as

availability check, strategy groups, and so on. This documentation describes the data

that you need to maintain specifically for material variants.

2. Maintain the required basic data.

Do not select Material is configurable for a material variant.

In the basic data, you can link the material variant to a configurable material. This

configuration applies to all plants. To manufacture the material variant in-house, you

must maintain the variant at plant level, so that BOMs, routings, and so on can be

determined. Cross-plant variants can be used in Purchasing, but are not supported in

Sales.

3. Maintain the sales data.

You can only use the variant in sales orders if you maintain sales data for the variant.

4. In the MRP data, enter a configurable material for configuring the variant at plant level.

5. Choose Configure variant.

You see the value assignment screen with the characteristics of the configurable

material.

Configure the variant.

6. Once you have maintained all the data, save your material variant.

Bill of Material (BOM)

To do a requirements explosion for a configured material, you must maintain the data in the

material master record and link a BOM to the configured material.

If the material of the material variant is the same as the configurable material, the link

is already there.

You can either create a BOM especially for the configured material (perhaps using the copy from

function) or allocate the configured material to the BOM for the configurable product. The second

option is the more common solution.

If you allocate the configured material to the BOM for the configurable product, the BOM for the

configurable product is interpreted and exploded according to the characteristic values assigned.

The interpretation includes the processing of selection conditions and the setting of field values in

BOM items according to the relevant actions.

Allocating a Configured Material to a BOM

To allocate the configured material to the BOM of the configurable product, proceed as follows:

1. From the bills of material menu, choose Bills of material Material BOM Alloc. config.

mat. Create.

2. Enter the name of your configured material in the Material field.

You see a screen on which your configured material is shown as the first allocation.

Select the allocation and choose the All allocs for BOM function to see all the materials

allocated to this BOM.

3. Save your allocation.

Task List

To produce a configured material, you need to allocate a task list to the configurable material

once you have created the material master.

If the material of the material variant is the same as the configurable material, the link

is already there.

You can either create a task list especially for the configured material (perhaps using the copy

from function) or allocate the configured material to the task list for the configurable product in the

task list maintenance function. The second option is the more common solution. If you allocate

the configured material to the task list for the configurable product, the task list for the

configurable product is interpreted and exploded in the production order according to the

characteristic values assigned. The interpretation includes the processing of selection conditions

in the operations or activities, sub-operations, sequences of operations, and production

resources/tools (PRTs).

Allocating a Task List to a Configured Material

To allocate the configured material to the task list of the configurable material, proceed as

follows:

1. From the routings menu, choose Routings Routing Change.

2. Enter the number of the configurable material.

3. Choose Goto Overview.

4. Choose Routing Material allocation New entries and enter the number of the

configured material you want to allocate to the task list.

5. Save your allocation.

Creating Cross-Plant Material Variants

Use

For material variants that are procured externally, you can define the assignment to a

configurable material in the basic data of the material master, because no plant-specific data

needs to be determined for these variants.

Procedure

1. In the material master menu, choose Material Create (General) Immediately.

Enter a material number, an industry sector, and a material type for materials kept in

stock.

Select the views that you want to process.

2. Maintain the required basic data.

Do not select Material is configurable for a material variant.

3. Under Client-specific configuration, enter the configurable material of which you are

creating a variant.

4. Choose Configure variant.

You see the value assignment screen with the characteristics of the configurable

material.

Configure the variant.

5. Once you have maintained all the data, save your material variant.

Result

The variant can be entered in a purchase order. The configuration of the variant is copied from

the material master.

Cross-plant material variants can be used in Purchasing. However, they are not

supported in Sales.

Strategies for Variants

Definition

Low Variance

This section describes how to plan products that have a practical limited number of possible

combinations of characteristics and characteristic values. Technically speaking this section

describes the use of variants to sell configurable materials.

Variants can be used to facilitate the work with configurable materials. Variants of a configurable

material are, for example, defined to prefabricate frequently required configurations and place

them in stock, which is why variants were formerly called stockable types.

For some configurable materials, it may be difficult to determine the variants of a configurable

material. To use the strategies for variants effectively you must have an estimate of future

consumption for each variant.

If the configuration is not changed during the Sales Order stage, production can occur at the

Production Before Sales Order stage. Then the customers must purchase the variants as they

are or as they were planned. The benefit is that the products can be shipped immediately to the

customers, if they are in stock.

Make to Stock Production for Variants

Variants can be planned on the finished product level using any make-to-stock strategy, such as

Planning with Final Assembly (40) or Net Requirements Planning (10)

The planning of variants with make-to-stock strategies combines the advantages of make-tostock

production (very short delivery time) with the advantages of variant configuration (one BOM

and one routing for a whole product family).

Make to Order Production for Variants

Variants can be planned on the finished product level using any make-to-order strategy, such as

Planning w/o Final Assembly (50) or Planning with a Planning Material (60)

The planning of variants with make-to-order strategies combines the advantages of make-toorder

production (planning without final assembly or cost tracking on the sales order level) with

the advantages of variant configuration (one BOM and one routing for a whole product family).

Integration

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Tejas