Working with Configurable BOMs 

Purpose

You work with configurable BOMs if you manufacture a product with many variants. You produce the product especially for your customers, who specify how the product should look. In doing this, you use variant configuration.

Process Flow

  1. You create a super BOM

    2. Apart from the components that are relevant to all variants, this bill of material also contains selectable components. You maintain the bill of material for a configurable material as you would a normal material BOM.

  2. You define in, for instance, object dependencies, the conditions according to which the selectable components should be selected during configuration.

    3. You can find further information under BOM of a Configurable Material.

  3. You perform configuration, for instance, when entering a sales order.

The system selects the desired and suitable components from those that are selectable.

For more information, see the R/3 Library, under Variant Configuration.