Variant Configuration Cost in Sales Order

[Former Member]

Can you let me know what is the standard way to cost Variant configured items in the sales order? for standard item costs, we use VPRS, but for Variant items, the costs vary depending on the variant characteristics selected. Sales Price is controlled by Variant Pricing...but i wanted to know how Cost for these Items should be set up as a best practice. Some place explode the BOMs into the Sales Order - but some characteristics are not Materials per say. Thanks.

[madhu_vadlamani · Accepted solution]

Hi Nhu,

Welcome to SCN.See suppose you created sales BOM. In general the sales bom will explode and appear in sales order.Here we consider only main material only.

;Sales Bom|;

[Sales Bom Explanation|http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/sales-bom-implementation.htm]

[Cost Calculation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/90/ba6da4446711d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm]

Check these links if there is any issue please post.

Regards,

Madhu.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Do we always have to explode the BOMs to calculate variant costs? some characteristics like Color are not really Materials...so that explosion would not make sense. Is the standard method to capture variant costs in a Sales Order is to explode BOMs? if so, what do we do with Color? Since that is really not a Material..should we make it some sort of Material then? Thanks.

[madhu_vadlamani · Accepted solution]

HI,

Two possibilities are there either you can explode or non explode. You can do one thing in sales order try to explode where as in invoice do not explode. I did the same.

Regards,

Madhu