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Use

For material variants that are procured externally, you can define the assignment to a configurable material in the basic data of the material master, because no plant-specific data needs to be determined for these variants.

Procedure

  1. In the material master menu, choose Material ® Create (General) ® Immediately.

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

    Select the views that you want to process.

  2. Maintain the required basic data.

    3. Do not select Material is configurable for a material variant.

  3. Under Client-specific configuration, enter the configurable material of which you are creating a variant.
  4. Choose Configure variant.

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

    Configure the variant.

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

Result

The variant can be entered in a purchase order. The configuration of the variant is copied from the material master.

Note 

Cross-plant material variants can be used in Purchasing. However, they are not supported in Sales.

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