Creating multiple variants in CFM1

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I have the requirement as follows:

In CFM1, when we select materials there may be a huge list (say 10000). In such a case my requirement is to divide this huge list into chunks of smaller list (say 10 lists of 1000 each).

Each chunk should correspond to one separate integration model. That is, 1st integration model should include first 1000 materials, 2nd should include 1001 to 2000 materials and so on.

I am not sure how to achieve this technically. Kindly help!

Regards,

Richa

[Former Member]

Hi Richa,

If you plan to use multiple integration models for materials, one possibility is to use material ranges.  Materials would be added and removed automatically.  With more integration models, it becomes even more important to run report RCIFIMAX periodically to generate the runtime version of the IMs.

Best Regards,

Mike

[wilian_segatto]

Hi!

Use Material Ranges as Maclean explained or simply create one single Variant for Material Master Data and separate Integration Models for each object like Planned Orders, Production Orders, PO and PReqs, PIRs, Stocks, etc.

Best regards,

[aparna_ranganathan]

Richa

Not sure why you want to create multiple variants.   You can have a single variant for 100,000 materials and it will work without issues  - i have seen that.  You can use a parameter in the filter criteria to select all these materials - no need to add them manually. If you create multiple variants managing them is going to become difficult after a while. If you create 10 new materials and delete 50 existing materials every day are you going to spend time adding /removing them from each and every IM ? I dont think thats the way to go .

Thanks

Aparna

[sourabh_jain66]

Hi Richa,

As suggested by Srinivas here, create 10  different integration models and add desired materials in each of the model.

Or alternatively you can create 1 integration model with 10 different APO applications.

Hope this gives you clarity to go ahead, or there is something else you are looking for.

Rgds

Sourabh

[Former Member]

Hi,

Not sure what your difficulty is. When you create an IM specify 1000 products for each IM...simply List all the 10k products in an excel sheet and create the 10 variants with 1000 products each.

Regards,

SG