Regarding Varinat Configuration

[Former Member]

Dear Friends

Any one plz send me the configuration deatails stepwise about variant configuration

y we r creating variant profile and dependencies,? wat r the uses with these.?

if we want to configure variant config, the material should be BOM material, it is mandatory?

or for normal material also we can create?

wat is the link between variant configuration and BOM?

plz help me

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Variant configuration is used where you have a configurable material like computer (made up of components like processor, monitor, keyboard, mouse etc). These components are called as characteristics in variant config. Again this will be having values like processor can be either P4 or P3, monitor can be 15" or 17" etc.

Based on the values selected the variant pricing will happen using the condition type VA00.

Possible questions you can expect are:

- What is variant configuration?

- What is characteristic?

- What is value?

- What is class?

- What is configuration profile?

- What is dependency and what are the types?

- What is a variant table?

- And the transaction codes for the above.

The procedure is as follows:

Create a Material - KMAT type with Item category (002)

Create Charateristics in CT04 - Zbike, where in values mention the Color of the bile like Red, Blue etc

Create another characteristics in CT04 - ZPrice, where directly go the additional data tab and maintain the table SDCOM and field VKOND (ABAP Dictionary it will ask for)

Assign these two characteristics to a Class in CL01 - ZBikeclass ( Type 300) in characteristics tab page.

Then go to CU41 Configuration profile select the material and enter the description click on the class assignment ie assign Zbikclass.

Now go back to CT04 - enter Zbike -go to values- select Red- go to extras - Other Dependencies - Select Procedure enter in front 10 write - $self.ZPrice='Red' and save

Now go back go to extras - Other Dependencies - assignments and assign relationship ( by default it will come just save)

Now select Blue- go to extras - Other Dependencies - Editor - Select Procedure enter in front of 10 write - $self.ZPrice='Blue' and save

Now go back go to extras - Other Dependencies - assignments and assign relationship ( by default it will come just save)

Now go to VK11 - Enter VA00 (Condition)(For Std RVA001 Pricing Procedure) - enter variant Red and Blue give the rates accordingly and create the sales order

Hope it helps

regards

Satish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Satish

Thanks for ur reply

plz give me the definition answers and uses for below questions

What is variant configuration?

- What is characteristic?

- What is value?

- What is class?

- What is configuration profile?

- What is dependency and what are the types?

- What is a variant table?

plz reply

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Satish

Thanks for ur reply

plz give me the definition answers and uses for below questions

What is variant configuration?

- What is characteristic?

- What is value?

- What is class?

- What is configuration profile?

- What is dependency and what are the types?

- What is a variant table?

plz reply

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Satish

Thanks for ur reply

plz give me the definition answers and uses for below questions

What is variant configuration?

- What is characteristic?

- What is value?

- What is class?

- What is configuration profile?

- What is dependency and what are the types?

- What is a variant table?

plz reply

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Satish

Thanks for ur reply

plz give me the definition answers and uses for below questions

What is variant configuration?

- What is characteristic?

- What is value?

- What is class?

- What is configuration profile?

- What is dependency and what are the types?

- What is a variant table?

plz reply

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Look this document for all your ?s

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/Data/pdf/LOVC/LOVC.pdf

regards

satish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi here is the answers for your ?s

1) What is variant configuration?

Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products. The manufacturer is always having to offer new variants of its products. 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.

2)What is characteristic?

To define the features of a configurable material, you use characteristics. To enable you to use characteristics to configure a material, you assign the material to a class of class type 300. Possible characteristics of a car, for example, are model, country, color, and engine. The customer can choose from among different options for each characteristic (values).

To create

SAP Menu Logistic->Centralfunction->Environment->classification->Chracteristics

Transaction Code CT04

3) What is value?

Value nothing but - characteristic values, EX: colour of car - RED, WHITE, BLACK, with AC or w/o AC, Power steering - Yes/NO

4) What is class?

In Variant configuration, Class is used to hold the characteristics that describe about configurable material. Class type to determine which object types can be classified.

· Class is used in variant configuration if the class has a class type that supports variant configuration. In Customizing for Classification, the Variant class type indicator must be set for the class type. In the standard system, this is class type 300.

To create

SAP Menu Logistic->Central function->Environment->classification->Class

Transaction Code CL01

5) What is configuration profile?

Each configurable object must have a configuration profile. The configuration profile for a material controls the configuration process in the sales order.

To create

SAP Menu Logistics ® Production ® Master Data ® Material Master ® Environment ® Configuration Profile ® Create

Transaction Code CU41

6) What is dependency and what are the types?

you use dependencies to control this. This prevents combinations of options that are not allowed. Dependencies also select exactly the right BOM components and operations to produce a variant.

It also describe the interdependencies between characteristics and characteristic values

· It control which components are selected from a bill of material (BOM) and which operations are selected from a task list

· It also changes the values of fields in BOM items and operations during configuration

Types:

The SAP System supports the following types of dependencies:

· Preconditions

· Selection conditions

· Procedures

· Actions (obsolete)

· Constraints

To create

SAP Menu Logistic->Central function->Variant Configuration->dependency->Single Dependency->Create Dependency

Transaction Code CU01

- What is a variant table

for more info look the following link, it has good info on VC

http://sapdocs.info/sap/sd-related-topics/variant-configuration/

hope it helps

regards

Satish