Selecting BOM Items (SAP Library - Variant Configuration (LO-VC))

Selecting BOM Items

Use

There are three ways of selecting variant parts in the BOM of a configurable material:

You enter the variant part as a BOM item and assign selection conditions to it
You classify the variant part in a class and enter the class as a class item in the BOM.
You use the classification data of a material or document as a selection condition.

Example

A bike has different rear lights:

§ Dtoplight Plus

§ Toplight

§ FER

You have the following options for controlling which rear light is selected:

a You can create BOM items for the individual rear lights, and use selection conditions to define when each item is selected.

b You can create a class of class type 200 or 300 and classify the three rear lights in the class. You enter the class as a BOM item in the BOM.

When you configure the material, the class is replaced by one rear light.

c The rear lights were classified in the classification system (in a class of class type 001, for example). Characteristic REAR_LIGHT_TYPE has been defined for the rear lights. You assign this characteristic to the variant class.

You enter three items in the BOM for the rear lights. For each item, you define that its classification is used as a selection condition. If you set a value for characteristic REAR_LIGHT_TYPE when you configure the bike, the system looks for a rear light that has this value, and selects a rear light on this basis.