Creating Vehicle Configurations 

Use

If you want to be able to configure vehicles in VMS, you have to maintain characteristics, classes, variant conditions and object dependencies for the basic vehicle models.

For more information, see the Standard documentation:

Prerequisites

Within the project, you have decided how you want to define vehicle models – whether as a general vehicle type or as a vehicle type for which some characteristics already exist (see also: Vehicle Model).

Procedure

  1. Optional: define a characteristic group (Customizing: Cross-Application Components ® Classification System ® Characteristics ® Define Characteristic Groups).

    2. It is advisable to create one or more characteristic groups for the application VMS in order to group the characteristics created for VMS and differentiate them from other characteristics used in the DI system. You can then search quickly and easily for all the VMS characteristics by entering the characteristic group and using the matchcode search. You can, for example, create a single characteristic group for all VMS characteristics or a characteristics group for each set of characteristics for a specific vehicle group.

  2. Create vehicle characteristics with characteristic values in the characteristic group (transaction CT04).

    3. Enter a description and, if required, a characteristic group, status (must be released), data type, number of characters and values.

  3. Create a class with class type 300 (variants) for VMS and assign the vehicle characteristics to this class (transaction CL04). If you are dealing with groups of similar vehicles, also create a model family class 001 (material class) and assign vehicle characteristics to this class.

    4. Add the characteristics that are the same across several variant classes (within one vehicle family) to this family class. This allows you, when searching for a vehicle, to search several vehicle models for specific characteristic attributes, for example, search for all red vehicles irrespective of vehicle model.

  4. Optional: group the characteristics together in order to display them on the interface on their own tab page or in their own file (transactions CU50 and CL30N).

    5. Transaction CU50: call this transaction and choose Value assignment ® Interface design ® Characteristic grouping. The characteristics are grouped together in files in the IPC. If you want to use this function, you must have entered a name in the interface design field on the configuration initial screen tab in the configuration profile.

    Transaction CL30N: call this transaction and choose Value assignment ® Characteristic grouping. The characteristics are then displayed on different tab pages when you search for vehicles in VMS.

  5. Create material master records for your vehicle models and enter the classes in the material master (see: Creating Material Master Records for Vehicle Models).
  6. Create a configuration profile for the materials/vehicle models you have created for class type 300 (transaction CU41).

The configuration profile allows you to create object dependencies for the vehicle model and make additional settings that are not possible in the material master record. You assign specific pricing characteristics to the configuration characteristics of the vehicle model in the object dependency functions (see: Creating Variant Conditions for Pricing ).

Result

The configuration data is thus complete and available in the VMS vehicle search functions (see: Vehicle Search). However, this data is not available in the IPC until it has been transferred there (see: Downloading Data to the IPC).

You can add object characteristics to the vehicle configuration (transaction VELOOBJC), for example, the characteristic "sales campaign". You can find further information in the Standard documentation under Object Characteristics and in the VMS documentation under Adding Object Characteristics to the Configuration.