Use

For frequently sold variants of a product, you can create a material master record that specifies a configurable material. For these products, a standard cost estimate can be created.

Between the various material components, dependencies (object dependencies) are defined. The standard cost estimate for configured materials is carried out using standard dependencies. On the basis of these dependencies, the system can determine precisely which BOM components and routing activities are required to produce the variant.

Prerequisites

A product with many variants is stored in the system as a configurable material . A BOM and routing are created in Production Planning for this purpose. The maximum BOM contains the material components required for the product, and the maximum routing contains all the operations required to produce the product. You define characteristics (such as color ) and characteristic values (red, green , blue , and so forth). A specific variant of the material is configured by selecting the characteristics and their values. You can configure the material in a sales order and manufacture the material based on the sales order. Where a variant is frequently used or produced for stock, you can store the variant as a material master record and configure it there.

Object dependencies link the selected characteristic values to the material components required to manufacture the variant. Using this information, the system calculates the corresponding BOM components (from the maximum BOM) and operations (from the maximum routing) for the configurable material.

Features

You define whether the indicator configurable material on the Basic Data 2 view of the material master record is preset using material types in Customizing. You can also change these default settings. In the standard system, material type KMAT is used for configurable materials. If you work with valuated sales order stock you can not use the material type KMAT. For more information see valuated sales order stock . You can also set further material types for configurable materials. When you want to cost such materials with product costing, you must first of all configure the material in the sales order , and then call the cost estimate from the sales order.

For further information about configurable materials, see Selected logistical processes and cost objects

For frequently sold variants create a material master record and use a material type that can be costed. In the material master record, you link this variant to the configurable material and valuate the characteristics.

There is no routing or BOM for this variant; costing is carried out based on the configuration of the maximum routing and maximum BOM.

You can create and save a cost estimate for this material.

The costing header indicates whether costing was carried out for a configurable material (indicator 2 ) or for a configured material (indicator 1 ).

You can calculate the planned costs of a simulated variant in a simulated configuration . Choose  Logistics Central functions Variant configuration Environment Configuration simulation . In the screen for characteristic valuation, choose  Environment Costing .

When you have valuated the characteristics, the system determines which BOM components are required from the maximum BOM and which operations are required from the maximum routing for the variant.

If you have not valuated any characteristics, the system costs on the basis of the materials and operations that exist in every variant.

You cannot save the cost estimate for this material.

See also:

LO Variant configuration

CO Cost Object Controlling