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Production Planning

1. Material Master2. Super BOM3. Super Routing4. Production line (Work centre)5. Variant configuration

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Component

Manuf.

PCManufacturer

Distributor

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Product Product

Forecast

Component

Components

MicroAge,CompuCom

Corporate

customer

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Component manufacturer

DELL CompCorp

Distributor

Final custom

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Components

Order

Product

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SAP PP Process Flow

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What is Variant Configuration?It is the tool which helps to simplify the complex manufacturing of final product with more varieties and variation of input material.

Example: Automobile manufacturingFurniture manufacturing

Purpose:Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products. The manufacturer is always having to offer new variants of its products. Often, new variants are created by modifying existing product designs as you process the order. The important thing is to react quickly to customers‘ requirements.The customer determines the features of the product. A customer buying a car, for example, can choose the features of the car and combine these features as required.The product configurator improves information exchange between sales, engineering, and production. Variant configuration helps the customer or salesperson to put together specifications for the product and ensure that the product can be produced from these specifications. It also ensures that production costs do not overstep the mark.

What is Variant Configuration?It is the tool which helps to simplify the complex manufacturing of final product with more varieties and variation of input material.

Example: Automobile manufacturingFurniture manufacturing

Purpose:Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products. The manufacturer is always having to offer new variants of its products. Often, new variants are created by modifying existing product designs as you process the order. The important thing is to react quickly to customers‘ requirements.The customer determines the features of the product. A customer buying a car, for example, can choose the features of the car and combine these features as required.The product configurator improves information exchange between sales, engineering, and production. Variant configuration helps the customer or salesperson to put together specifications for the product and ensure that the product can be produced from these specifications. It also ensures that production costs do not overstep the mark.

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Variant Configuration

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Variant Configuration

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Variant Configuration

You use the BOM to define which parts can be used in a configurable material. You create a super BOM for the configurable material, containing parts that may be used in specific variants only (variable parts) and parts that are required in all variants (non-variable parts).This BOM can contain items that are in themselves configurable materials (multi-level configuration).

You use the BOM to define which parts can be used in a configurable material. You create a super BOM for the configurable material, containing parts that may be used in specific variants only (variable parts) and parts that are required in all variants (non-variable parts).This BOM can contain items that are in themselves configurable materials (multi-level configuration).

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Variant Configuration

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Variant Configuration

ExampleExample

Create a sales order for configurable material T-VPC99. Familiarize yourselfwith the views and functions of the configuration user interface.

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Variant Configuration

Sales Order creation: system will offer characteristic value assignment screen

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Master Data for Variant Configuration:

Class Characteristics

Class (Class type 300)

Class (Class type 200)

Super BOM

Routing

Configuration profile

Dependencies

Master Data for Variant Configuration:

Class Characteristics

Class (Class type 300)

Class (Class type 200)

Super BOM

Routing

Configuration profile

Dependencies

Variant Configuration

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Variant Configuration

Class Characteristics:

Data type:Only allowed data types for variant configuration are Num and Char.

Date, Time and Currency data types are not allowed in variant configuration

Data type:Only allowed data types for variant configuration are Num and Char.

Date, Time and Currency data types are not allowed in variant configuration

Restrict able: This indicator shows that the allowed values of this characteristic can restricted during Variant Configuration. You can only use this indicator in Constraints.

Restrict able: This indicator shows that the allowed values of this characteristic can restricted during Variant Configuration. You can only use this indicator in Constraints.

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Variant Configuration

Class Characteristics : Allowed values and Value assignment type for characteristics

Characteristic values could be Specific values 20,40,60, A, B, C…………………….Intervals 20-40, 20-60, 40-80Combinations <50, 100, 100-500

Characteristic values could be Specific values 20,40,60, A, B, C…………………….Intervals 20-40, 20-60, 40-80Combinations <50, 100, 100-500

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Variant Configuration Class

Variant Class: Classes of type 300, collect and manage the characteristics for specifying a precise component in the Material Master.

Variant Class: Classes of type 300, collect and manage the characteristics for specifying a precise component in the Material Master.

Class node:Classes of type 200, collect and manage the characteristics for specifying a precise component in the BOM

Class node:Classes of type 200, collect and manage the characteristics for specifying a precise component in the BOM

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Variant Configuration

Class Maintenance

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Variant Configuration

Super BOM

You can enter a class in which materials or documents are classified as an item in a BOM. The class must have a class type that allows it to be used as a BOM item.

In the standard system, you can use classes of class type 200, for materials, and class type 201, for documents, as class items.

Only these two object types can be selected via a class item.

When you assign characteristic values in configuration functions, the class is replaced by a

material or a document.

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Variant Configuration

Routing

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Variant Configuration

Routing

Operations will change according to CPU valueOperations will change according to CPU value

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Variant Configuration

Configuration Profile

Purpose:You maintain configuration profiles for configurable objects to define central settings for configuring the object.

You can create several configuration profiles with different settings for an object. If an object has several configuration profiles, you must select a profile during configuration. You can only make changes to a configuration with the profile that you first used to configure the object.

Purpose:You maintain configuration profiles for configurable objects to define central settings for configuring the object.

You can create several configuration profiles with different settings for an object. If an object has several configuration profiles, you must select a profile during configuration. You can only make changes to a configuration with the profile that you first used to configure the object.

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Variant Configuration Exercise VC without Dependencies

Example Super Bike: Expected BOM items (If super BOM) will be 9 as shown below

Color Engine Exhaust

Red 1200 Exh-1

Blue 1500 Exh-2

Black 1800 Exh-3

Steps for VC:Create Class characteristics Color, Engine, Exhaust with allowed values as shown above.Create Class Color, Engine, Exhaust for class type 200 and 300 and enter previously created characteristics in respective classes.Create material master for super bike with classification view. And in classification view assign three classes created above (class type 300) Create configuration profile in CU41 with process option as Plnd/Prod. Order and BOM Explosion as MultilevelCreate BOM for super bike in CS01 with all three classes with class type 200 created aboveCreate all materials like Paint Red, Paint Blue, Paint black, Engine 1200, Engine 1500, Engine 1800, Exh-1, Exh-2, Exh-3 and classify these materials in classification view with respective class (type 200) and with respective value.For example Paint red Classification view class type 200, class color value red 01.Test the results in CU50