Configurable Material and Super BOM

Hi All !
Can anybody help me out to construct a Super BOM (starting from pre-requisites) to be done from Material master for the same.
Regards,
Srinivasan

Use Material Type KMAT only for the Configurable material and not for all the comps.
Following are the steps for creating varient configuration.
1 Create a material master
Material type: KMAT (or) check the indicator material is configurable in Basic Data 2
2 Create Characteristic (CT04)
3 Create Class (CL02) class type 300 (variant) & assign the characteristic to the class
4 Assign this class in the Classification view of the material master & save the material.
5 Create a configurable profile (CU41) for the material
6.Basic data 1: Gen Itm cat grp (0002) configuration
7Now while creating the super BOM, use the same Tcode CS01, in the item categary enter 200 and the item details assign it to the KMAT.
If you can send yr mail ID I can send you the file on CAMSHOW.
Regds,
Umesh

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I have these materials:
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B: variant material (header)
C: configurable material 1 (position)
D: configurable material 2 (position)
E:variant material 1 (position)
F:variant material 2 (position)
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1) A --> C+D
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Hi Sandara,
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Hi SAP gurus,
Can anyone tell me the difference between Variant configuration and Super BOM, if possible with an example.
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Praveen Kumar,
[email protected]

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For super BOM u need to do do the following configurartion settings.
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3. Maintain the records in CS01.
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I have a client requirement to maintain the BOM for finished product as a Super BOM even though the material is not KMAT material. Super BOM has got KIT materials. Based on this customer requirement only certain materials which goes in to finished product are get selected and should check the availbility of those components and it should create a planned orders and purchase reqn After MRP run.
My question is how the KIT materials are maintained in BOM?
how the materials get selected while creating a Sales order w/o usinf Variant configuration?
Does all the super BOM materials get consumed after the production confirmation?
Quantum.

Hi,
What do you mean by KIT materials.
By the way you can still maintain material as Configurable w/o selecting material type as KMAT.
Just you need to do is select material type FERT / HALB as applicable and then maintain material is configurable check box ticked in Basic Data 2 View in material master.
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Creation of Sale Order for configurable material with availability check.

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We have a scenario in which the material is configurable. The configurable material (X) has few variants (Ex: X1, X2, X3, X4, X5). While booking the sale order, we use the material number (X).
Further, the material planning is done for the variants X1, X2, X3, X4, X5. The standard variants are planned for production in advance.
1.     While booking the sale order, we want the availability check of the stock (type matching to happen). What needs to be done in configuration?
2.     While booking the sale order, there is a possibility that the configuration selected will not match with any of the standard variants due to some additional requirements of the optional features, in such cases how to link the standard variants to the sale order & create requirement for additional requirements.
Regards,
Umesh

Hi Umesh,
           1.Create material master for configurable material and variants in mm01.
           2.Maintain BOM for the configurable material in CS01
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              a. Create charecteristics T.code CT04
              b. Create values and assign classes
              c. assign the values to charecteristics
              d . Maitain dependence T.code CU01
              e.create configuration profile t.code CU41
              f.stimulate the configuration profile.
4. Do the availability check configuration through this path
IMG --> Sales and distribution > Basic functions ,> Availabilty check and Transfer of requirements.
5. Maintain the Availbility check field and MRP views in the material masters other wise you sit with PP people and do that
I hope it will help you
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Murali.

Material variant replacement in sales order for Configurable Material

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I am using variant configuration. In this i have created material A as configurable material and have Preconfigured Material B as its variant by assigning configurable material in MRP 3 view.
Now when i am creating Order for material A i.e. Configurable material and the characteristics values are same as that of Preconfigured material system is not replacing Configurable material with Preconfigured material.
Please help me out.
Regards,
Anand.

Even after maintaining the item category MTAC(Mills Make to order config at mat level), the configurable material is not getting replaced in the sales order (va02). It is just showing material variant exists for the configurable material.
The setting in item category for configuration is.
Config. Strategy 01(Sales Order Strategy (TAC, TAM))
Mat. Variant Action 4 (Replace configurable material (Append and change))
ATP material variant 2 (Do not substitute if not completely available)
Structure scope D (Configuration, poss. with BOM explosion)
I have maintained the stock for material variant as well to take care of ATP material varinat setting shown above.
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My scenario is like final products Distemper red 1kg, distemper red 5kg and 10kg like this.But Sales order will be Distemper red 1000kg.Based upon the availability of stock customer will get 5kg,10kg Depending upon the pack, price also differs depends upon the pack.
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Regards,
S.Suresh.

Hi,
As BNR said you need to work with Material Variants for having Variant Configuration with Make to Stock.
Pls. find the helpful details for maintaining Material Variants :
Maintaining Material Master Records for Variants
Prerequisites
A configurable material exists, for which you create a material variant. The configurable material
has all the necessary settings in the configuration profile, class assignment, dependencies, and
so on.
Procedure
1. From the material master menu, choose Material   Create general   Immediately.
Enter a material number, an industry sector, and a material type for materials kept in
stock.
You must process the following views:
Basic Data*
Sales Data*
MRP Data*
For material variants, you maintain the usual material master data, such as
availability check, strategy groups, and so on. This documentation describes the data
that you need to maintain specifically for material variants.
2. Maintain the required basic data.
Do not select Material is configurable for a material variant.
In the basic data, you can link the material variant to a configurable material. This
configuration applies to all plants. To manufacture the material variant in-house, you
must maintain the variant at plant level, so that BOMs, routings, and so on can be
determined. Cross-plant variants can be used in Purchasing, but are not supported in
Sales.
3. Maintain the sales data.
You can only use the variant in sales orders if you maintain sales data for the variant.
4. In the MRP data, enter a configurable material for configuring the variant at plant level.
5. Choose Configure variant.
You see the value assignment screen with the characteristics of the configurable
material.
Configure the variant.
6. Once you have maintained all the data, save your material variant.
Bill of Material (BOM)
To do a requirements explosion for a configured material, you must maintain the data in the
material master record and link a BOM to the configured material.
If the material of the material variant is the same as the configurable material, the link
is already there.
You can either create a BOM especially for the configured material (perhaps using the copy from
function) or allocate the configured material to the BOM for the configurable product. The second
option is the more common solution.
If you allocate the configured material to the BOM for the configurable product, the BOM for the
configurable product is interpreted and exploded according to the characteristic values assigned.
The interpretation includes the processing of selection conditions and the setting of field values in
BOM items according to the relevant actions.
Allocating a Configured Material to a BOM
To allocate the configured material to the BOM of the configurable product, proceed as follows:
1. From the bills of material menu, choose Bills of material   Material BOM   Alloc. config.
mat.   Create.
2. Enter the name of your configured material in the Material field.
You see a screen on which your configured material is shown as the first allocation.
Select the allocation and choose the All allocs for BOM function to see all the materials
allocated to this BOM.
3. Save your allocation.
Task List
To produce a configured material, you need to allocate a task list to the configurable material
once you have created the material master.
If the material of the material variant is the same as the configurable material, the link
is already there.
You can either create a task list especially for the configured material (perhaps using the copy
from function) or allocate the configured material to the task list for the configurable product in the
task list maintenance function. The second option is the more common solution. If you allocate
the configured material to the task list for the configurable product, the task list for the
configurable product is interpreted and exploded in the production order according to the
characteristic values assigned. The interpretation includes the processing of selection conditions
in the operations or activities, sub-operations, sequences of operations, and production
resources/tools (PRTs).
Allocating a Task List to a Configured Material
To allocate the configured material to the task list of the configurable material, proceed as
follows:
1. From the routings menu, choose Routings   Routing   Change.
2. Enter the number of the configurable material.
3. Choose Goto   Overview.
4. Choose Routing   Material allocation   New entries and enter the number of the
configured material you want to allocate to the task list.
5. Save your allocation.
Creating Cross-Plant Material Variants
Use
For material variants that are procured externally, you can define the assignment to a
configurable material in the basic data of the material master, because no plant-specific data
needs to be determined for these variants.
Procedure
1. In the material master menu, choose Material   Create (General)   Immediately.
Enter a material number, an industry sector, and a material type for materials kept in
stock.
Select the views that you want to process.
2. Maintain the required basic data.
Do not select Material is configurable for a material variant.
3. Under Client-specific configuration, enter the configurable material of which you are
creating a variant.
4. Choose Configure variant.
You see the value assignment screen with the characteristics of the configurable
material.
Configure the variant.
5. Once you have maintained all the data, save your material variant.
Result
The variant can be entered in a purchase order. The configuration of the variant is copied from
the material master.
Cross-plant material variants can be used in Purchasing. However, they are not
supported in Sales.
Strategies for Variants
Definition
Low Variance
This section describes how to plan products that have a practical limited number of possible
combinations of characteristics and characteristic values. Technically speaking this section
describes the use of variants to sell configurable materials.
Variants can be used to facilitate the work with configurable materials. Variants of a configurable
material are, for example, defined to prefabricate frequently required configurations and place
them in stock, which is why variants were formerly called stockable types.
For some configurable materials, it may be difficult to determine the variants of a configurable
material. To use the strategies for variants effectively you must have an estimate of future
consumption for each variant.
If the configuration is not changed during the Sales Order stage, production can occur at the
Production Before Sales Order stage. Then the customers must purchase the variants as they
are or as they were planned. The benefit is that the products can be shipped immediately to the
customers, if they are in stock.
Make to Stock Production for Variants
Variants can be planned on the finished product level using any make-to-stock strategy, such as
Planning with Final Assembly (40) or Net Requirements Planning (10)
The planning of variants with make-to-stock strategies combines the advantages of make-tostock
production (very short delivery time) with the advantages of variant configuration (one BOM
and one routing for a whole product family).
Make to Order Production for Variants
Variants can be planned on the finished product level using any make-to-order strategy, such as
Planning w/o Final Assembly (50) or Planning with a Planning Material (60)
The planning of variants with make-to-order strategies combines the advantages of make-toorder
production (planning without final assembly or cost tracking on the sales order level) with
the advantages of variant configuration (one BOM and one routing for a whole product family).
Integration
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Tejas

Problem creating a sales order for configurable material in SAP ECC

I have a Variant Configurable material named X.
The structure of this VC material is
Material X has charatcertics CHARCTERISTIC1 and CHARCTERISTIC2.
CHARCTERISTIC1 has values VALUE1
CHARCTERISTIC2 has values VALUE2
I created a sales order manually from VA01 using configurable material and read the values of all configuration tables to be filled from BAPISDORDER_GETDETAILEDLIST. With the help of this data i got an idea how to fill the tables of BAPI BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2. But still i am able to create a sales order but the configuration data that i give is not getting populated in the sales order.
Where am i missing. please some body suggest. I am unable to debug and searched the forums
for this information but dint find solution for my problem. some body please tell me where am i missing?
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Structure scope D (Configuration, poss. with BOM explosion)
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the material is a variant configurable material and we are creating a Sales order in Future date say in june.
For one of the materials in the SO the configuration is different today and the configuration is different in June.
Today the BOM contains different materials and in june there is a different bom for the material.
and according to my understanding the BOM gets exploded on the basis on the delivery date in SO.
here on the basis of the config which is valid in june materials are getting picked and that is correct.
when i try to creat a PO out of that SO i could see that the BOM gets exploded and correct materials are picked but i get the error message that inforecord for one of the componentes is not there.
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Here are the steps I followed.
1. material I used here is a configurable material.
Main settings.
a. In Basic Data tab, marked as configurable
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2. I created a sales order for quantity 10
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I checked for all the information in the FORUM without any help.
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Hi,
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1. In my case, after completing the partial delivery, in the document flow for Order, the status is shown as completed.
2. In status overview for this item, delivery status indicator is set as 'Fully delivered'.
I did check in the customer master record and the field
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