Difference between Configurable and varinant production order

Hi All,
1) What is difference between configurable material production order and variant  production order?
2) What is difference between configurable material and variant material?

Hi All,
1) What is difference between configurable material production order and variant production order?
Ans:
the only difference i can see is the Account assighnment - the configurable material needs to have a sales order order or Customer independent requirment since the stock when gets produced has to be placed inanyone of the account assignment.Which in simple terms is a make to order producton order
the Variant material production order can be a make to stock scenario also
2) What is difference between configurable material and variant material?
a.Configurable material - Inthis the characteristics can get any or specified values based on the requirement
Ex: car - is configurable material
    colour is a charctertisc - red,white are the values
b. Variant material - It will have ONLY one config material attached with it and the charatterstics would ahve the vallues prefixed
ex: CAR_RED as a material - which means the colur of thecar is red -it is fixed
does it clears your doubt are still require any more information..
sap s very intresting part  is VC

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