Make-to-Stock with Variant Configuration

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We have a scenario regarding the make-to-stock in Variant Configuration. Customer manufacture material of different grades and sizes. For that purpose in SAP, we have created a material "A" and define it characteristics i.e. "SIZE" and "GRADE". Based on historical analysis, customer manufactured popular grades & sizes of material "A" i.e. Make-to-Stock.

My question:

1. Customer starts production without having sales order on hand and do the Goods receipt into stock of material "A" based on its characteristics of SIZE and GRADE. When customer has a sales order, how can SAP system determines the availability check based on its variant i.e. SIZE and GRADE specified in the sales order?

2. Can we do Goods Receipt with material configuration instead of Batch configuration?

3. Supposing we do point 2, does SAP confirm sales order quantities having the same material "A" and characteristic values?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi,

For Configurable Material(KMAT)----

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> should concern with Strategy Group

In Configurable Material in MRP3 View -

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> in Planning you can try with strategy group as

10--Make to stock Production

11-Make to stock prodction/Gross requirements planning

You can create characteristics with all possible value and assign to material.

While sales order creation allow user to choose values for each characteristics.

For tracking purpose you can generate Z report for characteristic values in sales order.

you can use FM VC_I_GET_CONFIGURATION.

regards,

balajia

[Former Member]

Ali

You need to use Material Variants. A particular value combination of "SIZE" and "GRADE" for Material A will lead to (one of) its variant, say A1. Material Variants are manufactured and kept in stock. In the order, once you configure the characteristics, material A will be replaced by A1 and availability check will then take place for A1- Standard functionality.

Hope this helps.

See this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_dimp50/helpdata/EN/92/58c907417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm

[Former Member]

hi,

A material CYCLE is created as a configurable material with Gen. Item category group as 0004 and Item category group as ERLA. Also material CYCLE is a BOM material, which has sub items.

Go to Transaction code: MM01. Do the following:

1. Basic Data 2 Screen: Set u2018Material is Configurableu2019 Indicator

2. To determine item category TAC in sales order, maintain a suitable item category group such as 0002

3. MRP 2 View: Procurement type u2018E: In house Productionu2019

4. MRP 3 View: Strategy Group. u201925: Make-to-order for configurableu2019 used for demo

5. MRP3 View: Availability Check u201902: Individual Requirementu2019

6. Classification view: Attach the variant class

Go to tab classification and select the class type Variants-300 as shown below.

Assign the class CYCLECLASS in the assignments area.

The class CYCLECLASS is created with the class type 300 (Variants) for the material cycle.

Transaction Code: CL01.

Now maintain the characteristics as shown below in the screen shot.

1) CYCLETYRES 2) SYSTEM

3) CYCLEMODEL 4) CYCLEPRIZE

Now the characteristic CYCLETYRES was created with character format.

Transaction Code: CT04.

Go to the values tab and maintain the characteristic values and description as per the requirement.

Now the characteristic SYSTEM was created with character format.

Now Go to Transaction Code: CT04.

Go to the values tab and maintain the characteristic values and description as per the requirement.

Now the characteristic CYCLEMODEL was created with character format.

Transaction Code: CT04.

Go to the values tab and maintain the characteristic values and description as per the requirement

Now the characteristic CYCLEPRICE was created with character format. This characteristic is allowed for multiple values.

Transaction Code: CT04

Go to the additional data tab and maintain the table name as SDCOM (which links Sales and Distribution with Variant configuration) and field name as VKOND.

Now we have to maintain the dependencies for the class CYCLECLASS.

The dependency CYCLEPRICE is created for the class. Go to dependency editor as shown below.

Transaction Code: CU01.

Maintain the dependency editor for pricing the material CYCLE based on the required combination.

Also we need to maintain the configuration profile for the material CYCLE.

A configuration profile CYCLE is created for the material CYCLE and set the status as released.

Go to Transaction Code: CU41.

The necessary settings need to be maintained for the configurable material CYCLE to explore in a sales order.

We have to create the variant conditions for the characteristics maintained in the class CYCLECLASS. Then go to configuration or press F8 as shown below.

Transaction code: CU50.

Select one of the characteristics and go for its value and press the icon assign variant condition. Like wise we can maintain the variants for all the char. Values of the characteristics.

This is the variant as specified as medium range which should have the condition records maintained for VA00 and VA01

Finally maintain the condition records for the condition VA00 by using the transaction code: VK11.

The below specified conditions are active for the material CYCLE

regardsd,

balajia