BOM Explosion for Variant Configuration 

Use

You can create open variants using the function Variant Configuration.

Features

If a finished product contains many variants, you can group these variants together in a standard product. You can group together all possible components in the super BOM of the standard product instead of creating a separate bill of material for every variant. This super BOM contains all the non-variable parts, that is, the parts that are always used, as well as the variant parts, which are configured. You use object dependencies to define under which circumstances which components are used to assemble the finished product.

The standard product is configured in the sales order, that is, you specify which option model of the standard product is to be produced.

The BOM that corresponds to the configuration of the sales order is exploded in material requirements planning. Thus, the system only plans those components that are to be used in production as specified by the configuration.

You can find further information on this in the SAP document PP - Variant Configuration.

Activities

You check the configuration data as follows:

From the Planning Result after the Planning Run

  1. You double-click on the corresponding planned order.

    2. The system displays detailed data for the planned order in the Planned order screen area.

  2. Choose .

The characteristic value assignment appears.

From the Planned Order or from the Stock/Requirements List

  1. Choose Planned order ® Change or Planned order ® Display

    2. or

    in the stock/requirements list: Position the cursor on the planned order and choose or .

    The planned order itself appears.

  2. Choose Configuration.

The characteristic value assignment appears.