Variant Matching in Purchasing

[Former Member]

Hi,

i had created a configurable & variant materials, and the variant matching is working fine in sales order, but in any purchasing document the variant matching is not work, is it standard or i missing some settings ? and if it is standard is there logic behind that ?

also when i work with configurable material in PR and select some characteristics then in the RFQ i changed those characteristics, and when i made a PO reference to the RFQ i found it get the characteristics from the PR no the RFQ why ?

[former_member233510 · Accepted solution]

1) No such configurations are available in MM. Usually this variant matching settings are defined under the customizing for Sales and distribution and the functionality applicable only for sale orders.

Variant Matching in the Sales Order - Variant Configuration (LO-VC) - SAP Library

2) First you create PR for a configurable material, do some changes in the configuration. Then reference this PR and create RFQ, do different changes in configuration than PR doc. Finally when you create PO with reference to the RFQ, the configuration changes which you've done in PR will be adopted and it is the standard behaviour.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank u Rosh,

but still i don't understand what the logic behind that, the variant matching button is exist ?

and the business case for the PR & RFQ is the buyer when creating the PR he just know one or two of the characteristics and the other characteristics is not important to determined at this phase like the country of origin, then he send RFQ to different vendors and each one reply with the full characteristics, it supposed when we create PO reference to the approved quotation the PO get the characteristics from the Quotation not the PR, why the system get the characteristics from the PR not the RFQ ?

[former_member233510 · Accepted solution]

You may create RFQ without referencing the PR and then create PO by referencing that RFQ. I believe this is the only option to make the system to adopt variant configuration directly from RFQ into the Purchase Order.