Variant Configuration Without BOM

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Variant Configuration can be a very complex process depending upon the kind of product involved. In many industries such as Aerospace, Elevators, Automobiles and Electronics the variant c onfiguration can involve multiple level of BOM, s and dependencies. However today we will try to create a material with a ve ry basic level of variant configuration involved and without introducing any BOM. This is relevant for many industries where a base product is offered with additional level of selection available to customers with an ex tra charge. Please feel free to provide any comments suggestions etc. Let’s take an example where a Mo lded Plastic Storage Box manufacturer offers a very basic level of Storage boxat a base price but the customer has an option of going for ‘ Additional Colors  and ‘Box Thickness by paying an additional cost for it. We will start by creating the required characteristics (CT0 4) 1. Create Characteristic “ ZACOLORas shown below:

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Variant Configuration can be a very complex process depending upon the kind of product involved. In

many industries such as Aerospace, Elevators, Automobiles and Electronics the variant configuration can

involve multiple level of BOM, s and dependencies.

However today we will try to create a material with a very basic level of variant configuration involvedand without introducing any BOM. This is relevant for many industries where a base product is offered

with additional level of selection available to customers with an extra charge.

Please feel free to provide any comments suggestions etc.

Let’s take an example where a Molded Plastic Storage Box manufacturer offers a very basic level of 

‘Storage box’ at a base price but the customer has an option of going for ‘Additional Colors’ and ‘Box 

Thickness’ by paying an additional cost for it.

We will start by creating the required characteristics (CT04)

1.  Create Characteristic “ZACOLOR” as shown below:

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Maintain the values as shown in the example below:

Now maintain the applicable surcharge linkage by creating an additional characteristic

ZACOLORSURCH.

Provide the description and then go to tab “Addnl data” and maintain the Table name and field

name as shown below:

Click OK when you get the following message

Now go back to the original characteristic ‘ZACOLOR’ in a change mode. Go to the values tab

select the first value and then >> ExtrasObject Dependency Editor. Select the dependency

type “Procedure” when the pop-up window appears. Insert the code as shown below in line

000010

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 Repeat the process similarly for the other value of this characteristics.

Similarly create the Characteristic for the Box Thickness and Box Thickness surcharge and

maintain the dependency as described above.

Now create a Class for Storage Box with type 300 and assign these four characteristics to it.

Go to the Characteristic Tab and assign the characteristics you created in the previous step:

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Now create a material (MM01) for storage box with material type KMAT and assign the class to

the material in the classification view. For details with the relevant screenshots please refer to

my article on “Creating a Material Master Record for VC ” 

Maintain the Configuration profile (CU41) of the material as shown below:

Select the button profile details and maintain the entries as shown below:

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Select the button Class Assignment and maintain the allowed values for each characteristic by

checking the box against each value:

Similarly select the allowed values for each characteristic assigned to the class.

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Now before we create a Test sales order with the Variant Material we just created, lets maintain

the Variant Values in VK30

Go to VK30 transaction, select new entries and maintain the values you have created under each

characteristic e.g. GOLDEN, SILVER etc. in our example.

Now we need to maintain the condition records for the base material JMSTORAGEBOX . Go to

transaction VK11 and maintain the condition record for the base price for your material as

shown in the example below:

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We will also need to maintain the additional price to be applied for each variant as selected

while creating the sales order. This will be done by maintaining the condition record for

Condition Type VA00. Please ensure that the pricing procedure used by you uses the condition

types PR00 and VA00. (These are standard SAP Condition types and should be present in the

standard SAP pricing procedure RVA001)

Maintain the condition records for the variants under VA00 as shown in the example below:

Now let’s create a sales order (VA01)to see how the values we have maintained so far flow into

it:

When we create a sales order a pop up screen will come up asking to confirm the value of the

variants under each characteristics:

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 You will need to select the value for each characteristic based on which the system will create

the sales order and calculate the gross price. Click F8 to go to the next screen.

Now if we take a look at the Item pricing we see that the system has automatically calculated

the final order value based on the variants selected in the previous screen:

In case if you want to change the variants selected from the main screen than select the

particular line item than Extras Configuration. Here you can change the value of the variant

and system will price it accordingly.