Inventory maintenance for Configurable Material and their Variants.

Hi Gurus,
Can anybody help me as how to handle the following issues?
1. inventory maintenance for configurable material
2. variants stock position maintenance (should it be maintained seperately from configurable material?)
3. what about single values and multiple values components stock position?
Regards,
Sada

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
my query is say for example there is a material called XXX.
for this material the stock position is now 1000 units in warehouse. that is ok
if the above "XXX" is a configurable material, it might be having chars (say as additional components upto 10, which may be required by customers some times and no some times). If we maintain stock position for material XXX then what about components. because it is not always fixed and asked by the customers. customer may ask all components or some components.
Ex: Car is material.
A/C, Luggage carrier on the top, tool kit these are characteristcs.
I hope you understand me.
Regards,
Aanand

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