Variant CONFIGURATION

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have a scenario whereby I need to do variant substitution at sub -assembly level.

Can someone share the experience and knowledge in-terms is it possible to do variant substitution for sub -assembly within BOM and if yes then what I need to do?

Your help is much appreciated and i will be very thankful.

Regards

Bhaskar

[Former Member]

Hello

Your explanations are not very clear.

Do you mean to say that you are doing a multi level configuration in a sales order?

I.e you configure a header material in the sales order, you then configure a BOM component (configurable) of the header material....and you want to see a variant replace the configurable BOM component? Is that it?

Or, is your process to configure the header material only?....and then have an assembly automatically selected based on the configuration values of the header material.

If your scenario is something else, do detail it further.

rgds

[Former Member]

Hello Pascal,

Thank you very much, the scenario We have is header assembly is configurable in nature and lower sub -assembly is also configurable in nature.

So to give an example islike PC- header assembly and keyboard sub assembly.

So at the time of sales order creation, if a suitable Material variant found for PC, it should be replaced by PC1 and then lower level sub-assembly should be configured

to find a suitable variant for keyboard.

I hope this explains the scenario, the probelm i am having is 1- Variant matching at component level, yes you are right we want to replace variants at two levels.

Any help on this is much appreciated.

Thanks and Regarsd

Bhaskar

[Former Member]

Hello,

No my gut feel is to say that what you are trying to do does not work (i.e configure a PC and have it replaced by a variant, then configure an assembly and have that replaced by a variant as well) And I'm assuming that you want all that to happen in the sales order.

You can certainly configure multiple levels and items in a sales order, but that would mean keeping the configurable items in the sales order (not configurED items - variants - as you want them).

If I were you I would try using classes. You can use classes in the BOM (standard is class type 200) instead of components. What happens is that the class item will be replaced by a component during the configuration result process (if a suitable component is found). This means that you need to bring the characteristics of the keyboard to the PC level (essentially you configure the keyboard at the same time as the PC). However you have to bear in mind that with this solution if the system does not find a suitable component, it will keep the class as a a BOM item - and that is no good for you. From what you say you want to have a configurable material if a variant is not found. That can work too but the solution is a bit more complex because you need to first test if the class can be replaced. With a few dependencies and variant table that can be achieved too.

hope it helps

[Former Member]

Hello Pascal,

Thank you very much for suggestions, unfortunately, this doesn't help as if I have to replace variant for lower level component as well with Top level assembly.If I find an appropriate answer I will certainly keep you posted.

Thanks and Regards

Bhaskar

[Former Member]

I think that my solution will work. The only difference is that the lower level component will not be "configurable" dynamically. The class will either be replaced by a variant, and if it does not find one then a configurable material will take the place of the class.... Good luck.

[Former Member]

Hello Pascal,

Just to give feedback to your suggested solution, as you know from my scenario, that both the products has to be configured in nature. If I use class for lower level components it is really not going to support configuration.

In standard SAP, multi-level variant matching is not possible.

If i find any solution, will keep you posted.

Have good day..

Bhaskar

[Former Member]

Hi Pascal,

Can you let us know how to achieve this using some general process steps.

Appreciate your response.

Regards,

Satya.

[Former Member]

Hi Bhaskar,

I understood what you wanted to do, there 2 things which i needed to know, are you doing the replacement dynamically or manually, and if you expecting the process to happen automatically by using material variant in lower-level assembly, SAP doesn't support as the Variant matching is only for Manual order entry process.

Leaving Variant Matching we should be able to be achieved through Class node specialization for Configurable products.

Let me know your contact details, I hope i can help you.

Thanks Ajay

[Former Member]

Hi Satya,

I understood what you wanted to do, there 2 things which i needed to know, are you doing the replacement dynamically or manually, and if you expecting the process to happen automatically by using material variant in lower-level assembly, SAP doesn't support as the Variant matching is only for Manual order entry process.

Leaving Variant Matching we should be able to be achieved through Class node specialization for Configurable products.

Let me know your contact details, I hope i can help you.

Thanks Ajay

[Former Member]

Check this PDF

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

[Former Member]

Nitin,

Thank you very much for the document but it really does not answers my question.

[Former Member]

Do you know if there is a 4.7 version of this document? I found a link which appears to be it, but I'm hoping to find it in PDF.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/92/58d455417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/plain.htm

[ferry_lianto]

Hi Bhaskar,

Welcome to SDN.

Please check this online document and perhaps it may help.

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

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

Please reward points if helpful.

[Former Member]

Hello Ferry,

Thank you very much for the document, but this document doesn't answer my query.

Thanks and Regards

Bhaskar