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Prerequisites

A configurable material exists, for which you create a material variant. The configurable material has all the necessary settings in the configuration profile, class assignment, dependencies, and so on.

Procedure

  1. From the material master menu, choose Material ® Create general ® Immediately.

Enter a material number, an industry sector, and a material type for materials kept in stock.

You must process the following views:

Note

For material variants, you maintain the usual material master data, such as availability check, strategy groups, and so on. This documentation describes the data that you need to maintain specifically for material variants.
  1. Maintain the required basic data.

Do not select Material is configurable for a material variant.

In the basic data, you can link the material variant to a configurable material. This configuration applies to all plants. To manufacture the material variant in-house, you must maintain the variant at plant level, so that BOMs, routings, and so on can be determined. Cross-plant variants can be used in Purchasing, but are not supported in Sales.
  1. Maintain the sales data.

Note

You can only use the variant in sales orders if you maintain sales data for the variant.
  1. In the MRP data, enter a configurable material for configuring the variant at plant level.
  2. Choose Configure variant.

You see the value assignment screen with the characteristics of the configurable material.

Configure the variant.
  1. Once you have maintained all the data, save your material variant.

See also:

SAP Library PP Demand Management Structure link Strategies for Variants

 

 

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