GATP check on a Material Variant of a configurable material

Hi Experts,
In ECC side material variant is created . with reference to a configurable material of type KMAT.
The same configurable material is also used a pricing reference material for the material variant.
The configurable material is not relevant for production has no MRP tabs created. It is also not relevant for ATP check.
Material variant is of MTS strategy and relevant for ATP check.
Configurable material is not CIF'ed to APO. ECC ATP check was working fine. While doing GATP check , it is showing following error and not doing ATP check.
Product for external product number XXXXXXX and
BSG BSG1 does not exist .
XXXXXX---> is the configurable material.
Do I need to CIF across classes , characteristics and configurable material to APO even if I am doing ATP check on the material variant.

Hi,
No need to CIF across Class and Characteristics.
CIF across the Material ( Guess this material is just one Material). Activate the ATP Model for that material.
You need to maintain "CDP" in the customizing instead of Variant configuration in APO.
This should work.
Regards,

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Dear all,
I created configurable material and assigned class and BOM and object dependencies as well as configurable profile its working fine.
I need to create material variant so i assigned configurable material to material variant in MRP 3 view then selected the characterstics as per requirement. BOM also i assigned the configurable material. But at the time planning its not planning as per requirement also i need to consume the stock as per configuration at the time of sales order delivery.
What are all steps to be followed, where i did mistake pls correct me.
Regards,
S.Suresh.

Dear Mohan,
Thanks for your response.
I am very clear in configurable material we can use only sales order. I did in my projects no issues.
But material variant i have doubt, I tried once am not able get what i suppose to get.
I read the sap help.From that what i understood we can create PIR for material variant and can make stock thorugh the order it will consume only whatever we selected from MRP 3 configurable material.
If i make sales order for configurable material if the material variant and configurable material properties are same it will pick the stock. (For that in sales order item category (mat variant action) to be set).
1. Configure the configurable material in the sales order.
       2.      On the value assignment screen, you can already check whether material variants match the material configuration (see Variant Matching on the Value Assignment Screen).
For a material to be replaced by the material variant in the sales order, the configuration of both materials must match exactly.
       3.      When you have configured the material, exit the configuration editor.
       4.      Depending on the settings in Customizing, the material is either replaced directly by the material variant, or a message is displayed indicating that a suitable material variant has been found.
       5.      If the material is replaced, the material variant is entered in the order item.
Individual or collective requirements can be created for the material variant. Pricing is also carried out for the material variant, provided that you have not defined the configurable material as a pricing reference material for the material variant.
So i have doubt on material variant only if wrong pls correct.
Regards,
S.Suresh.

Material Variant Classification

Hi,
Does anyone know how to get the material variant classification data for a material? I found function CLFN_VARIANT_CLASSIFICATION, but I couldn't find any documentation. I don't know how to put the parameters in this function and whether this is the right funtion.
Thanks,
Roxana.

Hi,
Please check with following tables.
KLAH Class Detail
CABN Characteristic Detail
AUSP Characteristic Values
CAWN Characteristic Values
CAWNT Characteristic Value Texts
KSML Characteristic Allocation to Class
KSSK Material Allocation to Class
USE THE FOLLOWING fUNCTION MODULE TO GET THE DATA
CLAF_CLASSIFICATION_OF_OBJECTS
GIVE CLASS TYPE = 300 AND OBJECT NUMBER = MATERIAL NUMBER
EXECUTE YOU WILL GET IN TABLE T_CLASS, THE DETAILS ABOUT THE CLASS
IN TABLE T_OBJECTDATA, CHAR ASSOCIATED AND THE VALUE.
Check the link
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=11911947&messageID=4219775
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Raj.

Material variant replacement in sales order for Configurable Material

HI
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.
Please suggest if missing something.

Automated Material Variant Creation

Is there an automated way to create material variants once a configuration is entered on a sales order, if one does not already exist?
Take an example, I have configurable material ComputerA which is a laptop computer. Say there are two possible configurations, 2GB of memory or 4GB of memory. Let's say that I have a material variant already for the 2GB configuration, and say that I called it ComputerA_2GB. If I were to create a sales order for ComputerA and configure it with 2GB of memory, then I could have my item category set to swap in the the material variant ComputerA_2GB automatically.
Now assume that I create an order for ComputerA but configure it with 4GB of memory. I have not previously created a material variant for this. Is there a way to have ECC dynamically create that material variant and swap it into my line? So the process would be: create line item for configured material, if material variant exists, swap in, if material variant does not exist, create the material master for the variant and then swap that material in. Is there any way to do this without custom code?

Hi,
You can decide whether it is mandatory to assign a value to a characteristic on the basis of transaction code.
You must use [selection condition|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/en/92/58d455417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm] which calls the [user-defined function|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/en/92/58d455417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm]. In function you need to analyze sy-tcode and raise the predefined exception FAIL for those when you don't want to assign a value to a characteristic (e.g. mm01, mm02). Contact your ABAP team to create such a function.
Don't tick the characteristic as required entry in class definition but assign this selection condition to this characteristic in class.
Regards,
Alexander

Material variant download

Hi,
Can we download material variant created as non stock material in R/3 . I know we can download configurable material by creating Knowledge base and then downloading SCE object. But does the material variant created in R/3 also gets downloaded. and where they can be seen in CRM. please send me some config notes on the issue..
Your time and help is appreciated.
Regards,

Hi
In CRM in IMG>Cross-app>Classification system>classes>maintain object types and class types>CUVT...
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Configured material(Material Variants) with VC multi-level configuration

Hi experts,
I have a question about VC, VC can be a multi-level configuration, and it can be configuration level by level in sales order, this configurable material replace by a configured material(Material Variants ) . however I can only config the first level in Material Variants(MM02 MRP3; the configrable material is a multi-level)! how to solve it?
If we can not multi level config the VC materil in the configured material, how can it replace the configurable material in sales order?
Thanks
lance

Hi Lance,
You can do straight away also without user exit .
There is feature called Variant Matching in Variant configuration. If you can go throgh this and do the step by step configuration and in configuration profile setting you have to set Variant matching Indicator , then Make the Exclusion characterstics ,
With all the steps , Once the Configurable material is configured in Sales order if it finds the variant matched with the existing variant in the system , then Config Material will be replaced by Material Variant as a line item in the sales order.
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Ankaiah

Char based GATP check

hi,
Is variant class mandatory for characteristic based gatp check?
If not, in case of MTS scenario, when a sales order is created, how ( and where) to specify the characeteristic value based on which ATP check is to be carried out?
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RS

Dear Tibor,
Thanks for your response...
I had already gone through the SAP help document. But still my question is a bit different. I will give an example.
A material is defined with batch class. No variant class is maintained.After production, customer number is maintained in the batch characteristic.
At the time of sales order creation, product availability check should take place based on the customer (sold to party) in the sales order by searching stock (with batches) in which the same customer is maintained as a characteristic value.
In short ......Is there any user exit for batch determination during product availability check ?
Regards,
RS
Edited by: sap_apo31 on Jan 6, 2012 1:05 PM

RBA GATP check is not getting invoked for Sales Order

Hi Everyone,
RBA GATP check is not getting invoked for Sales order.
I maintained the configuration settings for 'Rules-Based Availability Check', APO general settings (check mode, check instruction), carried out integrated rule maintenance, Rule determination for the combination of order type & product, associated the check mode to product master. Also maintained all the settings in ECC towards Req class, Req type, checking control etc.
However, sales order is not invoking RBA Check though it is showing up the 'Rule' icon in the screen. Also, in the APO Availability check in Sales order when I click onto 'check instruction', I get the checking mode that pertains to RBA for business event 'A' (Sales order). Though I have not maintained any stock for the main material for which I have the sales order, yet system is confirming any quantity that I put in.
I would expect that system would propose the same material in an alternate location where we have stock through RBA.
Request you to share ideas on this.
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Avijit Dutta

Hi Avijit,
You should used No Checking Horizon in Checking instructions and also Check your rule control settings.
What you have defined in 1st and 2nd steps. Check whether product substitution is carried out or Location Substitution.
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Material Variant Matching in Sales Order Creation with ref.to Sales Order

Hi All,
We are working in Variant configuration.Our product is defined at PQD(Product, Quality & Dimension).
But, Sales Contracts are created at PQ (Product, Quality/Grade ) level only.
We have defined Variant Characteristics GRADE(ALLOY CODE),DIMENSION AND TWO MATERIALS.
MAT 1 , configurable material.
MAT 2, A Material Variant of MAT 1, Having values of GRADE = A & DIMENSION = 150 in MRP 3 view of the same.
When a Sales Order is created for MAT 1 and its characteristics values are GRADE = A, DIMENSION = 150, Material Variant type matching happens & it replaces the configurable material.
Similarly,Sales Contract is created for Configurable material MAT 1, with only GRADE = A ( As mentioned above, only quality is known at contract creation level).But, when we are trying to creart a Sales Order with reference to this Contract, we are trying to punch characteristic Value for DIMENSION = 150 also. At this stage, Materuial Variant MAT 2 is shown, but it is not replacing MAT 1.
Is this the standard behaviour or there is some solution/enhancement available.
regards,
Stuti

Dear Vijay,
in incompletion procedure we can arrange to check whether any field is empty, here data comparison is not possible.
As far as I know you can not achieve this through standard config.
To achieve your requirement, you will need to take help of an ABAPer, it can be achieved using Userexit.
ABAPer can use include MV45AFZZ
and Userexit ""USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT".
the code written in this userexit will check and compare the quantities before saving the dcument.
Logic if quantity enter is greater than the quantity mentioned in Contract show warning Message.
I hope this solves your Problem.
Regards,
Paresh

Transfer of characteristics values from material variant to its subordinate

Gurus
Need your Expert opinion on Variant configuration
We are using Multi level Material Variants and our bussiness process demands for configuration of These Material variants in Transaction MD81 and during creation of Sales order .These configuration will not affetc the BOM explosion but will only be passed to the The lower level components (Which are again theMulti level Configuriable Material variants ) as manufacturing instructions .To Enable these Flow of Characterisitcs we have Applied a Note which allows the Multi level Configuration of Material Variants and Pass this Values to lower Level and the characteristics value flow is visible as well for lower level from CU50 ,but when i create the requirement through CIR or sales order and Configure the Material Variants and Generate the Procurement Proposals to fullfill these requirements (MD02) in the form of Planned order we are unable to pass one the Characterisitcs values to planned orders of lower level Components of Material Variants .These characterisitc values are Used as Manufacturing Instructions and should be passed on to the Lower level of Material Variants through the use of dependencies in Configuration profile .but the problem is it works in CU50 and does not flow in planned orders , does any body have a solution for this ?
Thanks In Advance
awaiting reply
Milind

Hi Milind,
I check that you implement a Note which allows the Multi level Configuration of Material Variants? is it sap note? mind to share the number.
I ever faced this problems to before but fortunately the case in simpler so i just create another variant and maintain the component for the variant. For example : characteristic color. I create variant with color red black etc. For variant red, maintain component red. For variant black maintain component black, so on. Is it possible for your case?
Regards,
Arman

Material Variant of a Config Material to take Charac. Values from Sales Ord

Hello Guys,
Is there any way to have a Material Variant for a Configurable Material to take the Characteristic values from a Sales Order instead of Material Master ?
I understand by default Material Variant has fixed characteristic values and is taken from material master......
however here is the situation am in.......
I have a completely MTO scenario where we will making the product from scratch only after we know the characteristic values.......however our Costing Guys want to do standard cost estimate for the Configurable Material somehow......they were able to do Cost Rollup by making the Configurable Material itself as the Material variant of itself (assigning the same Configurable Material # in MRP3 view)............however this broke my design of taking characteristics from the Sales Order...because the Configurable Material is now behaving as Material Variant and taking the default characteristic values from the Material Master....
Note: Our Costing guys donot want to cost settlement at Sales Order level.
Regards,
BRN.

I had exactly the same problem. (configuration "blocked" in SO because the use of material variants for PC purposes...)
SAP help says : To allow you to change the configuration of material variants in the sales order, the Configuration allowed or required indicator must be set in Customizing for Sales and Distribution. The requirements class is determined using the strategy group and requirements type defined in the material master.
The req. class parameter, mentioned not very clearly by the SAP help, that allows changing the characteristic values of a material variant during the SO configuration is V_T459K-KONFI and value must be either * or +
Hint: A quick check can be done In the SO entry: go to the procurement tab and replace your requirement type by KEL, you'll see that configuration is "open"
Hope this helps
Iñaki
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Edited by: InakiGonzalez on May 11, 2009 8:15 PM

GATP Check with Batch

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We have a requirement of GATP check from one batch. We plan to use the user exits around RBATP to achiev this. We are facing issues when we set up the COnsolidation Process. I am unable to pass on the batch information to the Stock Transfer Requisition generated. Moreover I dont think there is any link between the Sales Order and the generated STR (beyond the conversion of ATP tree structure). In case you have worked on such a scenario or have any inputs/workarounds for this process, it will be of immense help.
Rajiv

Hi Rajiv,
Just a thought, I don't know how it will help you. Try creating a characteristic in R/3 and assign it to a class. The same has to be maintained in the classification view of the material under class type 023 and then try pass on the batch information to the stock transfer requisition.
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R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

GATP check for Batch and Batch characteristics

Dear Experts ,
I have a question regarding GATP check
scenario is like this
1) Create a Sales order in a plant
and there are 10 supply DC
consider we are into batch management and the stocks are in Batches with production date and Expiry date
when i create a sales order for qty 1000 , system must do ATP check in all the plants and pick the right batch according to the expiry date
how to handle in GATP
what are the basic steps for configuration and master setup
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Raj

*system must do ATP check in all the plants and pick the right batch according to the expiry date*
ATP check and batch determination are unrelated things. Batch determination follows ATP check. but the SLED parameter may not be able to determine batches for the entire confirmed qty as there may be some bacthes that do not qualify the SLED parameter (assume only warehouse stocks being in scope of check) and this may not have been blocked before hand in say a separate stor loc that is excluded from ATP qty
If you want to do ATP check at all locations..then remember that the check is happening at potentailly different material availability dates. It might be prudent to sort all the batches by remaining shelf life..and that might mean if the order qty is 1000.. then you might have 5 plants and 9 batches meeting the criteria based on oldest stocks first.(assuming this is what you would like to do). You then need to create five different line items in the sales order with different delivery plants and then immediately create delivery and do the picking,.
Let me know if you discover a neater solution around this. You can also try global location determination (and a rule control strategy appropriate) in RBA and see if the proposal is as per the expected result. I have my doubts on this. Also to be considered are delivery group correlation to ship the entire qty at one. So you might have to pack 5 deliveries in one shipment..and probably one invoice?
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Hi,
Can you delete the configuration from a Material Variant and then reconfigure the part in MM02?

Hi
Once we created variant we can't delete it,
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