Concept of configurable material

[gobinathan_govindarajan]

Hi Greetings

Can you please articulate the concept of configurable material ?

What is the business significance of the same.

Gobinathan G

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The concept of configurable material is as follows..

You procure a pen from a vendor but,he delivers it to you in two colours( Assume the price differs as the charecteristics changes in this scenario), then you can configure your system using the two colours(charecteristics)..

material A-(red/blue).

You have to create a material (configurable) and assign it to a class 330 variants in mm01 (classification view and then assign the charecteristics as red/blue and raise a PO based on these charecteristics which you can maintain in an info record..

Reg,

Deepak.

[former_member318507]

Hi,

Configurable material is useful if you have a large number of combination of parts that go into a product. I

t means different permutations and combinations of the parts for same material like different characteristics

KMAT material type may be used in such a case where you maintain just one generic product code.

A super BOM is maintained for such a material consisting of all possible alternatives.

Example:Lets assume you want to order a Computer, with different configurations,

like 1.Hard disk character ranges like (80 GB, 100GB,160 GB)

2. Mouse character ranges like ( optical mouse, scroll mouse )

3.Speaker character ranges like( 50 W, 120 W)

4.Monitor chanracter ranges like ( 14inch,21 inch........)

So based on your requirement , you can select the desired configurations & order it.

As per different characters , price also will vary.

also refer the link, hope it will help.

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/92/58c09b417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm

Regards,

Ravindran

[gobinathan_govindarajan]

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[Former Member]

Hello,

Material of which different variants are possible.

For example, a car can have different types of paintwork, different trim, and different engines.

Configurable materials are either created in a material type that is designated for the configuration (material type KMAT in the standard system), or the Material is configurable indicator is activated in the material master record.

Configurable material is useful if you have a large number of combination of parts that go into a product. It means different permutations and combinations of the parts for same material. If you maintain a unique material code for each combination , you require a large number of material numbers.

Prase