FM to Process Variant Configuration

Hi Experts,
I want a report or an API which does the process of variant confiruation and gives the result back.
(ie) without using CU50 or VA01/VA02 i need to do the process explicitly . When i pass the material and plant etc to that API it has to allow us to config like set values to charactesritics and saving etc, if everything sucessfully configured need result config data back if not exception. Can it be done if yes please suggest how.
Regards,
Raju

hi,
its a glass window cutting and manufacturing company.
we never know the exact customer requriment that is in which dimensios it has to be.
our client was having a machine with software installed in it.
we use to enter only the dimensions in the selection screen.
it use to process and give the OUTPUT
in various styles and we use to show the varieties with its prices to customer.
he used to select one model out of it and we accordingly bill him.
we have used MTO VC there.
regards,
balajia

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Process order with variant configuration material

Hi,
I create a process order for a material XX.
This material has a BOM with a material that has variant configuration "class type 300" for price configuration.
When I save the process order I get a message saying "There are still characteristics for components to evaluate". I dont want to evaluate this material in my process order.
What can I do to not have this message?
Regards.

Hi all,
Yes, I work with variant configuration. But sales orders are not involved.
What I do is:
1) I create a purchase order for material X (this material belongs to a BOM), this material has variant configuration. I give a value to the characteristics in the PO.
2) I create a process for a material XXX that has a BOM (material X is in the BOM and cannot be removed).
3) When I save the process order the system asks me to evaluate again the characteristics. This is what I dont want it to do.
Any ideas?
Regards.
Eduardo

Wants to know the practical steps in Variant Configuration process.

Dear Experts,
I want to know the practical steps being performed under the variant configuration process being followed under textile industry or a pharmaceutical industry. Can anybody please help me out of this issue?

Dear Santosh,
I think you are aware Variant config. is used to configure the material according to the requirement of the customer at the time of processing the sale order.But to my knowledge of pharma business the material will be produced in advance and there will be lot of planning associated to increase the business,and there will be different combinations and strengths available at the disposal,there will not be any make to order scenario.Since it is an ongoing process.It will be like the number of end users of that particular product in the market(here end users will be the patients to whom the medicine has been prescribed).I hope this will be of some help to you.If am wrong pls correct me.
Regards,
Ramesh.

Variant configuration process

Hi,
Can any one tell me variant configuration step by step process.
Regards
Sasikanth.Ch

Hi,
Pl. follow these steps.
Create a Material - KMAT type with Item category (002)
Create Charateristics in CT04 - Zbike, where in values mention the Color of the bile like Red, Blue etc
Create another characteristics in CT04 - ZPrice, where directly go the additional data tab and maintain the table SDCOM and field VKOND (ABAP Dictionary it will ask for)
Assign these two characteristics to a Class in CL01 - ZBikeclass ( Type 300) in characteristics tab page.
Then go to CU41 Configuration profile select the material and enter the description click on the class assignment ie assign Zbikclass.
Now go back to CT04 - enter Zbike -go to values- select Red- go to extras - Other Dependencies - Select Procedure enter in front 10 write - $self.ZPrice='Red' and save
Now go back go to extras - Other Dependencies - assignments and assign relationship ( by default it will come just save)
Now select Blue- go to extras - Other Dependencies - Editor - Select Procedure enter in front of 10 write - $self.ZPrice='Blue' and save
Now go back go to extras - Other Dependencies - assignments and assign relationship ( by default it will come just save)
Now go to VK11 - Enter VA00 (Condition)(For Std RVA001 Pricing Procedure) - enter variant Red and Blue give the rates accordingly and create the sales order.
Hope it helps. Pl reward if it helps.
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Production Order BOM with Variant Configurable Material

Hi,
I have a requirement to process the document items in the Production Order BOM for a variant configurable martial. I am not sure which Function Module will do this purpose. I checked the FM: CS_BOM_EXPL_MAT_V2 and does not seem to be working.
Can you please help me with a suitable Function Module or program that will process the Production Order BOM? Appreciate Your Help.
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Edited by: Kannan SA on Jul 6, 2011 8:59 PM

What are you doing with the characteristics right now ?
If you want operations selected based on characteristic values, you need to have dependencies written just like you do (or in your case, will do) in your BOM components.
I understand the business-push to not do things 100% at the start and just "oh we'll add that part later" but I would really push back to get that part included initially.

Regd : Error during saving the sales order for Variant configuration

Hi -
When the item( config material) is saved in the sales order , system scheduled the production order and getting an error as " Posting Rule for Assembly order for item 000010 could not be generated".
Any solutions regarding the error.

Hi,
This is the process of Assembly to order with variant configuration. In material master, you can maintain gen item category 0002 (configurable material) in basic data view, sales 2 view item category grp 0002 and strategy group 82 in MRP 3 view. After creating of material master, BOM & Routing, You can create sales order in VA01 transaction.
In this VA01, When you create sales order, system will check material availability, capacity checking and system will show variants for each items. And also when you will save the sales order, system will create production order no immdiately.
So you can maintain the above settings compulsory.
please let me know any clarification.
Regards,
Mohan

Why don't we do the confirmation in variant configuration?

Hello guys,
As far as i know that in variant configuration we don't do the confirmation, we directly do the goods receipt.Is it right?If yes than why?
Following are the steps we do while doing the variant configuration scenario:
1)First we create the characteristics and give the values inside it.
2)Then we create the class of class type 200 and give characteristics defined in it.
3)Then we create the variant of class type 300 and give all the characteristics inside it.
4)Now we create the configurable material with Basic data 1,2, MRP 1,2,3,4 , Classification view ,workscheduling view.
In classification view, we give the variant of class type 300.So it shows all the characteristics and its value over there.There we select all the values.
5)Now we create the super bom of configurable material and in class tab we give all the classes of class type 200.Here even we can maintain the dependencies if we define all the characteristics value in item tab.
6)Then we create the super routing and inside it we give all the possible operations inside it.Right now my routing contains operations which are necessary all the times.
7)Then we create the configurable profile for configurable material of class type 300.
8)Now we give the requirement in md81 for configurable material and there we select the characteristics values which we want.
9)After that we run the mrp for configurable material and it generates procurement proposals(planned order) for it.
10) Afer this we convert this planned order into production order and release it and save it.
11) After this we do the goods receipt for the production order in mb31.Because of this it shows the stock of sales order as production order qty.
This procedure my tutor has taught me.Have i missed any steps or am i wrong somewhere?If that the case than plz guide me.

if you can generate a production order then you can always confirm it according to SAP PP logic.
we use variant configuration for the manufacturing of complex products. once the component quantities and
operation are selected for a particular variant and copied to Production order, the rest of the process is same
as normal Production Control. Revert back with any queries you have.
Regards,

Error in Variant Configuration CO684

Hello, friends !
Back in the forum, now with a problem in Variant Configuration.
I was able to carry out the whole process up to the creation of the production order. There I have the error message CO 684 "You cannot make an assignment to make to order stock" .
All the configuration stuff seems to be OK.
I created a sales order configuring the product.
The MRP creates a planned order in the Customer Segment of the MD04.
The components have the special stock E.
I have tried with stock available in warehouse and also tranferring to E using MB1B movement type 412 E.
But the error still remains !!
Any tip or clue ??
Thanks in advance.
Dario

Rajesha,
for the KMAT we have:
strategy group: 25
Individual: 1
In the sales Order:
Item Category: TAC
Requirement Type: KEK (in the procurement Tab); class should be 046.
However, in the controlling for sales order there is no entry for:
TAC " " 046 , only for Class 041, in the Assignment of Requirements Type to transaction.
In the planned order: Account Assigmnment: M (it takes from strategy 25)
Settlement Profile (In the order Type) SD1.
Result Analysis Key: ?? (where can I find it??)
Regards

How to create process variant in process chain

What is a process variant? i try to add Infocube compression to the fi process chain. To accomplish this task, i have to create process variant. please tell me the step by step process how to create process variant and successfully add the compression to the process chain. Can i do it directly in production? Thanks to SDN community that i can count on.

Hi Rafi,
<b>Process variants</b>
The process variant is the name of the process Within the process chain context, it displays the configuration of a process of a particular type set at the time of definition. A variant is only consistently defined together with the process type. A process can have various variants. With the load process for example, the name of the InfoPackage is the name of the process variant.
The user defines the process variant at the time when the process is scheduled. With some process types, the variants are determined internally and are stored as GUIDs.
For more info:
Process Chains
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/8f/c08b3baaa59649e10000000a11402f/content.htm
Processes
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/7b/d4313b38bea774e10000000a114084/content.htm
Including InfoCubes in Process Chains
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d5/e80d3dbd82f72ce10000000a114084/content.htm
You can create process chains directly in Production. Most of the times system allows(depends on system settings). But this is not a proper way of working. Create in Development and transport it to Production.
Hope it Helps
Srini

Where used list for variant configuration

Hello,
We use a lot of configurable BOMs in our company. In the case of deleting a material we need to know where the material is used. Is there a possibility to find out where a material is used in multi levels.
For example a material is used for producing raw material this material is processed again to a more specified product and this product is processed again. We need to explore 3 variant configurations ...
We need to display the bom level by level bottom up. If a material is part of an assembly which is part of a material we need to display it somehow.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Christiane Hetzenauer

dear Friend ,
See there are 2 things material used in BOM direct assigment
another is material is bond to BOM via a characterstic value.
so if you want to see how many materials have values 123 attached to there classic=fication view search through MM02 search via class , select the class and inout the value for example "01" it will return with all the materials which have value 01 attach to this class , in the same way you can use CL30N search objects assign to class.
in your example
For the BOM motor cycle the materials R123 B456 and Y789 are assigned.
If i search in CS15 for 123 I get as example , also use tick classes in the first screen of CS15
R123
B456
Y789
then you will only get R123 motorcycle as result.
Check and revert back.
Regards
Ritesh
Edited by: R S D on Jul 21, 2009 12:44 PM

Consuming Material Having Variant Configuration

HI
We are using Variant Configuration for our semi finished product and its
batch managed.There are two plants in one plant say A and B. In A plant
we are using Variant configuration.The same material is stock transferred
to plant B and is further processed.
We are creating CIR in plant B. After taking MRP run we are converting
planned order to purchase requisition and subsequently Stock transfer
purchase order on Plant A. When the material is produced in plant A,it is
transferred to plant B on stock transfer order mentioned above. But the
material is against CIR in plant B. We remove the material from CIR
through 411E movement and system keep it as free stock in unrestricted.
Now when i am consuming this material for further processing in
production order of Material getting manufactured system is asking me for
Variant Characteristics.
System should not ask me variant characteristics once it has been removed
from CIR i.e. special stock.
Any Work around avilable.
Regards,
Anand.

Hi Anand,
Finally, I could understand your issue from your CSS message.
In your description, AA is configurable material in both plant A and plant B, BB is not a configurable material in plant B, AA is a component of material BB, so when you produce BB, there will be dependent requirement generated for AA from BB, now you want to use the stock of AA to fullfill the dependent requirement, however, the system will require you to enter the characteristic at that time.
Then where is the stock of AA comes from? I have mentioned this in my previous reply. But as I have mentioned it is not correct to have unristricted stock for the configurable material, therefore, your process to have free stock of AA is not correct.
Another point is that, your process to have configurable material as a component of a non-configurable material is also not proper.
For example, material BB is a Car, material AA is the Door of the Car, your Car is not configurable, but the Door is configurable, you may have green door and red door according to the configuration, but as your car is a firmed material then what's the meaning to have different door, if you want to have different door, then that means you also need to have different color of the car, like green door for green car, red door for red car, then that means your car should be also a configurable material to make you can select the color of the car too.
Or if your Car is a firmed material as green car, then do you think there is any meaning to configure the door of the car? Unless you do want a red door for a green car, but this can also be realized with a configurable car.
So normally, like your situation, you should use multi-level configuration structure to do the production in make to order scenario.
Therefore, still the problem has been described in my previous reply, no matter how you get the stock of AA, the AA is produced with the configured configuration module, so the stock of AA is also with the configuration data, then no matter how you want to consume the stock of AA, system will always ask for the characteristic of the requirement to compare it with the stock configuration to see if they are same.
For example, you are producing your Car, but as far as I can see you should have no place to configure the door in production order, therefore when you try to consume the door, the system will of course need to know which color you want, because if you want red door but there is only stock of green door, then how the system should do in your opinion?
Then finially, the best way of solving your issue is to have material variant for the configurable material, like the door, you may have material variant as green door and red door, if your firmed Car is green car, then you can use green door as the firmed component, if your firmed Car is red car, then you can use red door as the firmed component, also when you do the production, you could simply produce the green door directly without configure the door, because the material variant is a stockable item but the configurable material is not, then your scenario would be very simple and there will no such problem any more.
If you do still want to keep your scenario, but don't want the system requires you enter the charateristics, then you may have to do the modification of the goods movement transaction to disable that, but it may lead to the inconsistency situation, like actually you want red door, but what you have in stock is green door, without that, you may consume the green door stock for the red door requirement, then it will mess up all the following process.
Also as you are doing the goods movement in MM transaction, so if there is user-exit could be used to change this behavior is decided by MM function, however, base on my checking there will be no such user-exit to control this behavior at MM side, because the consequnce is really dangerous for the system operation.
Therefore, I think the best way for you is still adjust your production scenario to make your production standard, then SAP system will accept that standard production scenario under your requirement.
Thanks and regards,
Rachel
Edited by: Rachel Tang on Apr 2, 2010 10:25 AM
Edited by: Rachel Tang on Apr 2, 2010 10:32 AM

Issue in Variant Configuration

Hi all,
I am working on Variant Configuration and i have a Configurable Material with Super BOM Structure.
Separate Configuration Profiles are maintained for both Main Material and BOM Component.
Configuration Process is Sales Order (SET), BOM Explosion is at Multilevel and Application is SD01.
When i create a Sales Order, only BOM's of Main Material are getting Exploded, where as BOM of Components
are not been Exploded. When i am trying to create a Sales Order directly for Configurable Component,
then BOM gets Exploded.But this does not happen when i try for Main Material.
Can any one help me in this regard?
I want to know the reason for this and any further Customization settings, to make Components of Main Material
as well as BOM Material get Exploded in Sales Order.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Ravi

Hi ,
The issue could be due to the following.
When to enter the Main material in the sales order. The Main Material Item Category will be "TAC" for which "Structure of scope" in IMG would have maintained hence it will explode BOM components. Now eventhougth BOM components have " Configuration profile" The item category is "TAE" which will not " Scope of Structure".
Now goto IMG item category configuration and maintain " Bill of Material/ cobnfiguration" settings for TAE. it will explode multi level BOM.
But when u enter the configurable BOM separately in sales order it will explode, because now BOM componet Item cat will be TAC
Hope this will help u
regards
Arun Prasad
Edited by: arun prasad on Jul 30, 2009 6:27 AM

Variant Configuration including Bitmap

Hi there,
we using often small bitmaps to show the customers a hint to the selected articles. The output of SD Order are sapscript forms and we solve this with include of an Bitmap in sapscript article description.
Now i try to include such a bitmap in a variant configuration. If the user select a value 1 of a Characteristic ist should print bitmap xx, if the user select value 2 of a Characteristic ist should print bitmap yy and so on.
Is anyone who had solve such a problem or know how could i realize this in sapscript.
Is there a possibility to define a variable in the characteristics value or in the maintaining dependencies of a value?
While processing the variant configuration table in sapscript (loop at tkomcon conf_out = tkomcon) this could be done by an if then else statement. But i don't like to process this on all variant articles. So i search for a solution to sove this in the article description/variant characteristics depending on a selected value.
Thanks for help
Karl Mueller

Hi
1) A configurable material , let us say can have 1000 of variants based on the characteristics combination. Out of these 1000 variants we will be interested to stock only a few variants . This could be say 10 or 20, and for these only, we need to create material variants. Actually this process is similar to the creation of 10 or 20 new materials..but here by selecting the characteristics, we are creating the materials which are known as material variants.
Hence we will not be creating material variants for all possible combinations
2) For the material variants that we created, we plan, produce & stock the required quantities.During SO creation we enter the specification ie characteristics combination given by the customer. In Sale order itself we can make the system to check whether a material/stock exist for the given characteristics combination and assign the promise date suitably.
Regards,
Ramasamy

Using ALE to synchronize Variant Configuration data from Production to Dev

SAP Gurus,
We are trying to move away from opening our production environment every time with need to add new Variant configuration for products.
In order to do so, we need to ensure that our development and staging systems are in line with production LO-VC data. We have been looking at a possible ALE solution but I would like to get other suggestions.
Any thoughts you may have with regards to either pros and cons of ALE, or another solution we may have overlooked. If your clients are transporting Variant Configuration to production, what method are they currently using to ensure data consistency between environments.
Our landscape currently has two production environments for two separate business lines but both use LO-VC therefore we would like to standardize the process.
Thanks and Regards,
Kevin Webb
SAP SD Senior Consultant

Hi Webb,
General its a complex process to transport VC but for system consistency you can:
1. do the changes Manually in each system
2. Use ALE idoc process to transport.
But ALE transport generally used for fresh VC transport, if the VC already present in transporting system, it may cause inconsistency. Hence if you want to transport some changes then I can suggest you to do MANUALLY.
But if you are transporting VC freshly in each system, go for ALE.
try and revert

Implementing Variant configuration with Non-configurable assembly

Hi Gurus!
I have a scenario but don't know how to implement it.
My header material is configurable and has 3 semi-finished components under it. One of the semi-finished component contains a BOM with 2 raw materials, but this component is not configurable. I mean my model has a multi-level BOM but single a single level configuration. I want to implement an assemble-to-order manufacturing process for the header material. The component with 2 BOM items is manufactured in-house and the other semi-finished components are procured externally.
What kind of planning strategy should I use at the header level and should I maintain any special planning strategy for the non-configurable assembly?
I am new to SAP and also to variant configuration. So please give detailed explanation.
I have read the Planning strategies in the link SAP Library - Demand Management (PP-MP-DEM) but it is too confusing to me.
Best Regards,
Thileepan P

Hi Caetano Almeida
Thank you for the links. I got a few more questions after reading that.
1. In order type settlement profile which order should I check? I am creating a sales order (OR) for a configurable material in MTO strategy 25. In that case should I check "SD1 Sales Order MTO Production"? If so, am I looking at the right screen (refer screenshot below) and are the settings correct in my system?
2. As you have mentioned in the other links. Is it fine to make changes in material valuation in OMS2? Have you come across any situation in which this change has led to other inconsistencies?
Thanks and Regards,
Thileepan

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