Variant Matching in the Sales
Order
Use
If material variants already exist for a configurable material, the configurable material can be replaced with the material variant in the sales order. For this purpose, the material configuration must match the material variant exactly. Material variants that only partly match the material configuration in the sales order are not taken into account.
Prerequisites
You define the settings for variant matching in Customizing for Sales and Distribution when you maintain the item categories:
· You activate variant matching for an item category.
· You define how the system responds when a material variant is found:
¡ The system automatically replaces the configurable material with the material variant.
¡ The system outputs a message indicating that a material variant with the same configuration exists.
· You define whether an availability check is to be carried out for the material variant.
If the material variant is not available, you can specify that:
¡ A note is output with a list indicating the stock situation of the material variant. You can decide whether the material variant is to be replaced.
¡ The variant is not replaced.
Constraint
At present, only materials with the configuration parameter BOM Explosion: None can be replaced by material variants.
Activities
...
1. Configure the configurable material in the sales order.
2.
On the value
assignment screen, you can already check whether material variants match the
material configuration (see
Variant Matching on the Value Assignment
Screen).
For a material to be replaced by the material variant in the sales order, the configuration of both materials must match exactly.
3. When you have configured the material, exit the configuration editor.
4. Depending on the settings in Customizing, the material is either replaced directly by the material variant, or a message is displayed indicating that a suitable material variant has been found.
5. If the material is replaced, the material variant is entered in the order item.
Individual or collective requirements can be created for the material variant. Pricing is also carried out for the material variant, provided that you have not defined the configurable material as a pricing reference material for the material variant.
Excluding Characteristics from the Search
You can exclude characteristics from the search for variants. To do so:
...
1.
Choose System -> Services -> Reporting. Enter the name
of the report: RCU_EXCL_CHARACTERISTICS. Choose 
.
2.
Specify the
number of the relevant material or the characteristic that you want to exclude
from the search and choose .
3.
Select the
Exclusion Types indicator for the characteristic
or combination of material and characteristic to exclude it from the search.
Choose 
.
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