Variant Configuration

Variant configuration
Manufacturing of complex products with large number of variants is always considered is a stringent task. The
business should be in a position to offer this kind of products according to customer requirements, as it is not a
standard item.
VARIANT CONFIGURATION is a tool that offers the flexibility of the configuration of the material during the
sales order processingby the end user according to the customer requirements.
Variant configuration has integration with following applications:
CA = Classification
LO = Material master
PP = BOM and routings
PP – PI = Master receipts
SD = Sales, conditions
MM = Purchasing
CO = Costing
PP MRP production orders
Variant configuration offers a unique feature by which requirement of creating separate material foreach variant of
product is eliminated by using “configurable material”, that contains all the components and operations for
production planning requirements.
Characteristics: Characteristics are used to define the features of configurable material. These characteristics are
assigned to CLASS TYPE 300. Customers can choose different options fro each characteristic, which are termed as
a“VALUES”.
– The only limitations are combination of features that are not possible for either technical or marketing
reasons.
– Variant configuration offers “source code” creation tool called “DEPENDENCIES” that prevents the
combination of options that are not allowed.
– Dependencies select right BOM components and operations to produce a variant.
– Each configurable material is assigned to a “CLASS”via “CONFIGURATION PROFILE” which controls
the configuration in the sales order.
– Variant dependent PRICE can be calculated and maintained in VARIANT CONDITIONS.
Pre – requisites: Maintain plant parameters
We have to specify all the plant parameters for MRP
Path:
 IMG
 Material Management
 Consumption – Based planning
 Plant parameters
 Carryout overall maintenance of plantparameters
 Click on Create and specify our plant
 Click on Create  Create  Save
 Click on Maintain Maintain  Number Ranges  Planned Orders
Specify number range Ex: 01  Save
 Click on RESV/Depend. Req. Mts. and specify number range Ex: 01  Save
 Click on Purchase Requisition and specify number range Ex: 01  Save
 Click on MRP LIST and specify 01  Save
 Click on Sim. Dependent Reqt.and specify 01  Save
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Master DATA
 Click on MRP controllers  Go to new entries and specify our plant, MRP controller Ex: 999 = SrinivaS
Business Area
 Click on special procurement  Go to new entries and specify our plant, SP type Ex: [SP] DCS [xxx],
Procurement type [E] and special procurement [E]  Save
 Click on Floats and go to new entries and specify our plant  Save
Plannedorders
 Click on Cons. Pls. Ord & Purch. Req.  Specify 10  Save
 Click on Dep. Reqmt. Availability  Specify check rule [01] = Checking rule 01
Planning Run
 Click on External procurement and specify purchase procurement time [7]
Sub. Pur. Group [NIL]
Account assignment unknown [U]
 Click on Rescheduling 2  Save
 Click on planning horizon and specify [7]
 Click on Avt. Stockand “check” all the options
 Click on Err. Handling and specify maximum purchase orders Ex: [10] SMRPG [999]
 Click on order start is past and check start is past allow
Performance
 Click on Aggregation ofMRP list  check Transfer MRP
 Save and Exit
Create MRP groups: It is an organizational object used to assign group of materials with special control
parameters for the planning run.Path:
 IMG
 Material Management
 Consumption – Based planning
 MRP groups
 Carryout overall maintenance of MRP groups
 Specify plant
 Click on create  Specify MRP group DESC  create  CREATE  create  Maintain 
Maintain
External procurement
 Scheduling DOC. Type  check and specify [NB] [NB] [NB]
Planning intervals
 Reschdu. Horizon and specify Reschedule Horizon [7]...