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Jul 17, 2008 at 05:17 PM

Variant Configuration - Conf. Supporting Points - Planning Profiles

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Iu2019m currently working on an implementation where we are implementing R/3 (SD, Manufacturing, LO, FI, etc) and APO Demand Planning. In doing so weu2019re using VC (Variant Configured) Products where weu2019re forecasting at the KMAT Level which should drive the dependent requirements for non-VC items and those VC items that we maintain a Planning Profile (MDP6) and then Conf. Supporting Points for the items. This is fine for the products that we actually want to maintain a split factor for but most of the VC items we have from a planning perspective we donu2019t actually want/need to maintain a probability usage for the VC items. In trying to maintain the Planned Independent Requirements we receive error messages stating we need to maintain the profile and also manage supporting points.

I was able to release a forecast from DP and place it in Demand Management R/3 but if you want to change it in R/3 youu2019re forced to maintain the profile and supporting points. Also, even using the released forecast from DP when I run MRP I get en error message 52 u201CNo BOM Selectedu201D and then opening the order that is generated I get message 61259 Material requires configuration and the message (below) indicates that characteristic values need to be maintained.

What Iu2019m looking for is a way to allow MRP to plan these items without having to maintain a profile for thousands of materials. Also, so it would enable the ability to maintain the forecast for those items in MD62.

ERROR MESSAGE IS BELOW:

Material requires configuration

Message no. 61259

Diagnosis

Orders and requirements for a configurable material must have characteristic values.

Usually, you should create a variation for configurable materials managed in inventory management which has the default variant configuration.

System Response

MRP: Requirements without characteristic values for a material cannot be planned in MRP.

Procedure

Check requirements or orders.

Create a configuration evaluation for the material in the material master record if necessary.