Variant Conditions in Purchasing 

Use

In Purchasing, you can use variant conditions to define surcharges and discounts for configurable materials that are procured externally. The surcharges and discounts depend on the values assigned to the characteristics in the sales order or (for material variants) the material master.

If you order a bicycle frame in the color ‘Silver metallic’, the vendor adds a surcharge of $20. You create a variant condition called SILVER. When you select a frame in silver metallic, the variant condition is added to the price automatically.

Prerequisites

You have created a characteristic that refers to table MMCOM, field VKOND. The characteristic is assigned to the variant class for the configurable material.

An object characteristic with a reference to the table MMCOM field VKOND is multi-value because several variant conditions can be entered.

In Customizing for Purchasing, you have defined a new access sequence (0014) and 2 new condition types (VA00, which is quantity-dependent, and VA01, which is a percentage). These condition types are in schema RM0000. You have set the Variant condition indicator.

Process Flow

1. You create a purchasing info record for the externally-procured, configurable material, in which you maintain the variant conditions.

2. You create a procedure where you enter the reference from the characteristic to the structure MMCOM and the variant key.

CHAR_VARCOND = 'SILVER' if PAINT = 'Silvermetallic'

- You have created a characteristic, CHAR_VARCOND, that refers to table MMCOM, field VKOND.

- The variant condition SILVER with the amount $ 20 is maintained in the purchasing info record.

3. You allocate the procedures to either the characteristic values that trigger the variant conditions or the configuration profile, depending on the condition defined in the procedures.

4. You configure the material:

- In the material master, as a material variant

- In the sales order

5. In material requirements planning (MRP), a purchase requisition is created for the material. The purchase requisition contains the configuration of the material.

6. Once released, the purchase requisition is converted to a purchase order. The net price for the material is displayed in the item overview of the purchase order. When you display the conditions for an item, you see the value of the variant condition that is included in the net price.

See also:

Creating a Reference Characteristic