There are multiple ways in which you can maintain your variants in both SAP and SAP CPS. When you import your variants, you can decide to import variant definitions as well, which allows you to edit variants inside SAP CPS. This allows you to automate variant maintenance and distribution; furthermore, if you use identical variants across SAP instances, you can easily use SAP CPS to distribute modified variants to all SAP instances that use the variant. Even if you decide to maintain your variants inside SAPGui, you can use SAP CPS to copy variants from one SAP instance into another seamlessly, without even needing to import the variant into SAP CPS.

The following topic covers Variant creation and modification:

The following topics cover three main methods for storing variant modifications in an SAP System: