Variant does not replace Configurable material in sales order

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a configurable material A and its variant B.

I have configured the variant charcteristics in the "configure variant" tab and assigned A in the configurable material field in material master.

When create sales order for A and choose characteristic combination that matches with that of B, I expect the system to replace the item A in sales order with B. This is not happening.

Could you please point out any missing setting that could be causing this?

(The config strategy, and variant matching & Mat.variant.action fields are already defined in the item category of the sales order)

Thanks,

Ashok

[Former Member]

Hello Ashok

Firstly during order creation, check if any variant is matching by using the Variant Matching on the Value Assignment Screen functionality. That tells if you if your config is really matching a variant or not, although you may be thinking you have done it correctly, you might not have.

Second in the config profile maintained for the Configurable material, check

1) Check the 'config parameters' tab and ensure you set the BOM explosion as None.

2) In the 'user interface' tab, click on the settings button and in the next window, 'Object Dependent settings'. check the 'variant matching' tab. Do settings as per you need here. For example you can set 'type matching' to be 'permanent' and 'strategy' to be 'complete configuration'.

Do all these steps and see if you meet with success and revert.

[Former Member]

This is not material determination.

Check that Variant Matching is set in the Config Profile.

For Material B. you do have 001-type Classification values assigned, correct?

My guess is it's in the config profile.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the Response.

B is the variant, its not configurable. SHould we define a config. profile for the variant also?

Please confirm.

Regards,

Ashok

[Former Member]

Hi

If you want to replace material A with B. Then you need to do Material Determination too. For that here are the settings:

SPRO - > SD - > Basic Function -> Material Determination - >

1. Maintain Prerequisites for Material Determination

Maintain field catalog

Maintain access sequences

Define condition types

Maintain procedure

Create condition tables

Display condition tables

Change Condition Table

2. Assign Procedures To Sales Document Types

3. Define Substitution Reasons

4. Then Maintain Materials for substitution in VB11.

Then your requirement will work.

Regards,

Subhashini