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Function documentationVariant Matching in Sales Transactions

 

If product variants already exist for a configurable product, the configurable product can be substituted by the product variants in sales transactions.

Prerequisites

You can make the necessary settings for variant matching in Customizing for Business Transactions by maintaining item categories:

  • You activate variant matching for an item category. If variant matching is to take place, you can make settings here as to whether this is executed manually or automatically.

    • During automatic search, the product in the sales order is substituted by any variants found.

    • In a manual search, the user has the option to actively search for product variants in the Configuration Engine. The user can also determine whether the product in the sales transaction should be substituted by any variants that are found.

  • You determine when a product should be substituted in a transaction item:

    • Only when generating the configuration

      Note Note

      The generation of a configuration in SAP CRM lasts until the configuration is saved to the database (that is, until the transaction is saved).

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    • When generating and changing the configuration

    • The product should not be substituted

      Note Note

      Substitution is not executed in the sales transaction if the corresponding transaction item has already been transferred to SAP ECC.

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See Also

For more information, see Product Variants.

You can find detailed information about the Configuration Engine in SAP Library for SAP ECC, at Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Logistics – General (LO) Next navigation step Variant Configuration (LO-VC) Next navigation step Product Configuration with the Configuration Engine End of the navigation path.