Characteristics Planning
The following list describes the environment for characteristics planning
The strategies for configurable materials allow you to plan products with an almost unlimited number of possible combinations of characteristics and characteristics values. Use these strategies if you want to plan a product that uses a feasible combination of characteristic values and that does not include final assembly. Typical examples of such products are cars, elevators, forklifts, trucks, buses.
Variants, as described in
Material Variants, could not be used to plan these products because you had to create billions of variants. Entering usage probabilities for characteristic values instead allows you to plan materials that have a large number of variants. This procedure also improves change management for the components because planning is separated from construction changes.