Sales Order Processing for Products with Many Variants (Desc.) 
Example: Configurable PC
In this example, the sales order processing for a product with many variants is presented with a configurable PC. This is an example of a process, the elements of which are combined with elements from other processes.
Purpose
As a PC manufacturer you offer your customers the opportunity to determine the configuration of their computer themselves at the point of purchase. Your customers can choose from different variants for specific components such as the processor or the hard disk. You then produce the computer to the individual requirements. To do this, you use variant configuration in the SAP System.
Sales and Distribution and Technical Post Processing
The processing of a BOM is carried out in two steps:
In sales and distribution you carry out the characteristic value assignment on the top level.
With the help of the object dependencies, the system selects the components that meet this characteristic value.
Afterwards you carry out technical post processing.
Here, you assess the characteristics for the subordinate assemblies. If you want to carry out sales-order-specific modifications to a BOM, you create an order BOM.
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Note
In future, the master data for the packaging machine PM-1000 will be available in the IDES. Using this example data you can see for yourself the sales order processing for a configurable product with order BOMs.
Note that the order browser, in which you can create order BOMs for non-configurable materials, is available to you after Release 4.6A. In certain circumstances this makes it unnecessary to maintain the phantom configuration profiles.