Settings for Variant Matching

Use

When you configure a material, you can check whether a material variant already exists that has the same characteristic values.

You can display existing material variants on the characteristic value assignment screen. However, the configurable material is not automatically replaced by the variant. The displayed variants are for information only.

You can specify the following for variant matching on the characteristic value assignment screen:

  • The search is started only on request.

If you do this, you see a pushbutton on the characteristic value assignment screen, which you select to display the material variants.

  • The search is on permanently.

As soon as a material variant with the same characteristic values is found, you see the material number on the characteristic value assignment screen.

You can define a strategy as to whether a material that matches your entries is found after a partial configuration or only when the configuration is complete.

  • If you select the Partial confign indicator, a material is displayed as soon as the characteristic values you assign partly match the values assigned to a material variant. The characteristic values you assign must be contained in the material variant, but the material variant can also contain other characteristics. You can select the material variant and display its characteristic values.

Note Note

If you want to replace the configurable material in the sales order with the material variant, the values assigned to the material variant and the values assigned to the configurable material must be identical. Assign values to the remaining characteristics of the configurable material so that they match the values of the material variant.

End of the note.

  • If you select the Complete configuration indicator, a material is only displayed if the characteristic value assignment process is complete and all characteristic values assigned to the configurable material match the values assigned to a material variant. If this happens, the configurable material can be replaced in the sales order with the material variant.

  • If you select Chars without values, material variants are found if they do not have a value for one or more of the characteristics in the configuration.

If this indicator is not set, only material variants that have values for all the characteristics that have values in the configuration are found.

Procedure

You can define the settings for variant matching in the configuration profile and on the characteristic value assignment screen.

  1. In the configuration profile, choose Settings, and on the characteristic value assignment screen choose Start of the navigation path View Next navigation step Settings. End of the navigation path

  2. You see a dialog box.

  3. Choose the Variant matching tab.

  4. If you do not use the default values, you can save user-specific settings.

  5. If you do not define user-specific settings, or if you delete the user-specific settings, the settings in the configuration profile apply.

    For Settings on the Characteristic Value Assignment Screen Only:

  6. If the user-specific settings are different to the configuration profile settings and the current settings, you can display the settings next to each other by choosing Comparison.

The current settings only apply to the transaction you are currently processing.

See also:

Variant Matching in the Sales Order