MTO without Variant Configuration

Dear Experts,
while creating planned order.
Sales order does not allow make-to-order production
Message no. 61155
Diagnosis
The sales order entered is not to be included in make-to-order production.
System response
Account assignment can only be carried out with sales orders created with a requirements type for make-to-order production.
Procedure
Enter a sales order that is to be included in make-to-order production.

Hello,
This is most probably link to Requirement Class / Requirement Type / Item Category config & assignmeht.
Refer the below thread:
Sales order does not allow make-to-order production
Hope this helps..
Thanks,
Jignesh Mehta

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Production order costing issue in MTO with variant configuration

We have an urgent issue to be resolved in production order costing in MTO scenario.
We have two level configuration with configuration passed from parent to children. The parent has many configurable materials as child(semi finished BOM items) and BOM items of these child has again different raw materials(3 level BOM with last level being all raw materials) . The production order for parent created with reference to sales order.
While costing production order of parent, total planned price is displayed as zero as we have maintained price control std price for all configurable materials(parent & child) with zero price being configurable materials.Configurations are correct in production order material and BOM components(configurable materials). BOM item selections, Item quanties are also correct.
Sales order costing is working fine and rolled-up correctly as per costing settings. We have looked at costing configuration for production order and did not find anything unusual.
Kindly suggest possible reasons for not showing costing result in production order as per configuration copied from sales order or any possible configuration or master data likely missing ?
Thanks in advance.
Kind Regards
Ganeshan Kalembeth

Dear GANESHAN KALEMB,
Kindly open production order in change mode and reschedule order, cost order, check material availability and check capacity availability.
after doing this in main menu goto > log > overview > see error list if there is any, let me know, your problem can be solved.
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Muhammad Ashfaq

Sales order costing (MTO) Variant configuration.

Hi,
Basically there 3 different types of finished castings :
1.     Special finished Casting u2013 which is a configurable material . this casting is saleable as well as can be used for manufacturing machined castings. This casting is been manufactured at plant : 8110 only. The planning strategy maintained is 25 (make to order with configurable material)
2.     Machined Casting u2013 this is also an configurable finished material which can be sold as well as can be used as an BOM for manufacturing Assembly castings. This casting gets manufactured at plant : 8130 only. The planning strategy maintained is 25 (make to order with configurable material)
3.     Assembly casting : this is also an configurable finished material which is always saleable. This casting gets manufactured at plant : 8130 only. The planning strategy maintained is 25 (make to order with configurable material)
Scenario which is as follows :
1.     Customer gives the PO for assembly casting at 8110 plant code.
2.     Therefore Plant : 8110 will generate the stock transfer order to 8130 for assembly castings
3.     For manufacturing of assembly castings in 8130, the plant needs to manufacture Machined castings in 8130 plant and for manufacturing machined castings in plant 8130 , the plant requires special castings which is been manufactured at 8110 plant.
4.     So, firstly Special castings will get manufactured at 8110 plant with the reference of assembly sales order .
5.     After that stock transfer for special castings will be done from 8110 to 8130 plant .
6.     Then customer would start manufacturing machined castings
7.     And then finally manufacture assembly casting
8.     Finally assembly castings will get transferred from 8130 to 8110 plant for sale
9.     Sale of assembly castings from 8110 plant respectively.
Touch points of the scenario:
1.     Cost of special casting and machined castings should get rolled up to the assembly castings
2.     These needs to be executed in MTO scenario only because of variant configuration
3.     While doing the stock transfer, the cost should include transfer pricing as well
Problem Statement :
1.     We understand that for configurable material , you cannot run the standard cost estimate, therefore the material master price with price control u201CSu201D is always zero. So when do the stock transfer from of assembly cast or special cast for one plant to another then cost update happening at both the plants is zero.
Please suggest some better solution for incorporating this scenario inclusive of the touch points.
Thanks...

Dear Srinivas,
You can post this query to SD forum also for better response.
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Rakesh

Multilevel variant configuration without BOM explosion

Hi!
We have the following problem:
We use BOMs with variant configuration in SD and NO BOM explosion. Means, enter the BOM-head material in the SD line, go to the configuration screen and configure the multilevel BOM. There are classes and attributes on every level in the multilevel BOM structure.
After finishing the variant configuration, we save the SD order. If we enter the new SD order again with VA03 and go to the configuration of the SD line, the system forgot every attribute value on levels other than the BOM-head. We see the structure of the selected BOM materials, but no previously entered configuration value on other levels.
Do we make something wrong, or is this a SAP standard "feature" ?
Thanks,
Richard

Hi,
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Reward points if helpful.
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Amrish Purohit

Variant Configuration Strategies

Dear All,
Can anyone give me details of Variant Configuration Strategies indicating clearly which can be used for MTS & MTO scenarios?
Especially I 'm confused whether make to stock is possible or not for VC and if possible how ?
Points will be rewarded!
Thnx in advance!
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Tejas

MTS is also possible for VC,In this case you have to create your material as FERT(not KMAT type ) also called Material Varaint .Link material master record of this material variant to the configurable material .
This Material will be configured using the characteristics of the configurable material. This variant of the configurable material can then be manufactured without any sales order and can be kept in stock.
Following Strategy can be used for VC:
Planning Variants w/o Final Assembly (55)
Planning Variants w/ a Planning Material (65)
Make-to-Order Production w/ Configuration (25)
Characteristics Planning w/ Dependent Req'ts (56)
Assembly Processing w/ Char. Planning (89)
MTO Production for Material Variants (26)
For Details about Planning Starategy of VC ,you can also check here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/1d/23da03be3c11d1b54f0000e82de178/frameset.htm

How to hide variant configuration screen in sales order

Hi Friends,
Could you please help : how to hide variant configuration screen in sales order for a configured material
Ranjan

Hi
The very purpose of VARIANT CONFIGURATION is to for this material these are the characteristics available
In this you choose one characteristic then these are the values available
If you make a choice then this is the price
Means Maruthi car is the product
Say 800
Alto
Zen
These are characteristics
In this you choose say black, cherry red, white these are the values
When you put a sales order for Maruthi car then if it is 800 black colour then price is X
if it is 800 white colour then price is y
So that according to the choice of the customer the pricing and other details are fetched
Why do you want to defeat the very purpose of VARIANT CONFIGURATION
Rather than listing out of the whole product list the system simplifies the thing
Without that popup variant configuration is meaningless
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Edited by: ramanathan raja on Dec 11, 2008 3:48 PM

Production Order - Variant Configuration of Components

Hi experts,
I want to book a part (which is on stock with serial number and variant configuration) into a production order with movement type 261-E.
However, there I get the error message that the configuration does not match.
If I compare the configurations, one is empty - I guess the one from CO02.
How can I add the configuration to CO02-components?
Kind regards

btw, it is a production order without a material number itself (a kind of repair order, on which we book the parts of repair).
And one of that part is a component which is serialized and having a variant configuration.
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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
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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

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

Steps for Variant Configuration

Hi Gurus,
Can any body tell me step by step procedure for variant configuration.
My e-mail id. <REMOVED>
Regds.......
Sumit

Hi Sumit,
Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products. The manufacturer always has to offer new variants of its products. Often, new variants are created by modifying existing product designs as you process the order. The important thing is to react quickly to customers' requirements.
The customer determines the features of the product. A customer buying a car, for example, can choose the features of the car and combine these features as required.
The product configurator improves information exchange between sales, engineering, and production. Variant configuration helps the customer or salesperson to put together specifications for the product and ensure that the product can be produced from these specifications. It also ensures that production costs do not overstep the mark.
Procedure -
Create a Material - KMAT type with Item category (002)
Create Characteristics 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 i.e. 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.
Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products. The manufacturer is
always having to offer new variants of its products. Often, new variants are created
by modifying existing product designs as you process the order. The important thing
is to react quickly to customers' requirements.
The customer determines the features of the product. A customer buying a car, for
example, can choose the features of the car and combine these features as required.
The product configurator improves information exchange between sales, engineering,
and production. Variant configuration helps the customer or salesperson to put
together specifications for the product and ensure that the product can be produced
from these specifications. It also ensures that production costs do not overstep the
mark.
Integration
Variant configuration is integrated in the following applications:
a.. CA Classification
b.. LO Material Master
c.. PP Bill of Material
d.. PP Routings
e.. PP-PI Master Recipes
f.. SD Sales
g.. SD Conditions
h.. MM Purchasing
i.. CO Costing
j.. PP Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
k.. PP Production Orders
You can configure the following objects:
a.. Materials
b.. Standard networks in the Project System.
c.. PM General maintenance task lists
d.. Model service specifications
Features
You do not need to create a separate material for each variant of a product in your
company. You can use one configurable material to cover all variants. You create a
super BOM and a super routing for this material, containing all the components and
operations for producing all variants of the product.
To define the features of a configurable material, you use characteristics. To
enable you to use characteristics to configure a material, you assign the material
to a class of class type 300. Possible characteristics of a car, for example, are
model, country, color, and engine. The customer can choose from among different
options for each characteristic (values).
The only limitations are combinations of features that are not possible for either
technical or marketing reasons. You cannot combine all types of car engine with all
types of transmission, for example, or certain types of upholstery are only
available for more expensive models. In Variant Configuration, you use dependencies
to control this. This prevents combinations of options that are not allowed.
Dependencies also select exactly the right BOM components and operations to produce
a variant.
Each configurable object must have a configuration profile. The configuration
profile for a material controls the configuration process in the sales order.
You can make the price of a variant dependent on the characteristic values assigned
(Pricing). You can use variant conditions to define surcharges and discounts for a
variant.
For variants that are required frequently, you can create material variants, which
can be produced without a sales order and kept in stock. When you receive a sales
order, you can check whether the variant required is in stock, so that you can
deliver immediately.
Pl go thr below links:
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOVC/LOVC.pdf
http://sap-img.com/sap-sd/steps-for-sd-variant-configuration.htm
Please Reward If Really Helpful,
Thanks and Regards,
Sateesh.Kandula

Sales Order with Variant Configuration

I´m trying to create a Sales Order with Variant Configuration.
First, I tried to create the order with the BAPI SD_SALESDOCUMENT_CREATE but It would not let me update characteristics.
Then I separated into two BAPI's:
SD_SALESDOCUMENT_CREATE to create Sales Order and BAPI_SALESORDER_CHANGE to modify the characteristics.
I run the two SAP BAPI's from SAP and create the Sales Order and make the characteristics correctly, but when I try to invoke from The Middleware the message V1 555 The sales document is not yeat complete is displayed and does not update the characteristics.
Both functions are such as Remote-enabled Module.
The remote user profile is SAP ALL
Reviewing where the message is used, I see that the message is in the include MV45AF0B_BELEG_BEARBEITEN_ENDE
IF DA_LINES> 0 AND
SY-NE SPACE AND BINPT
CTU_AMODUS BI_INFO-NA 'A' AND
CATTAKTIV IS INITIAL.
MESSAGE I555.
ENDIF.
Do you have any idea why since Middleware is not working?.
Best Regards.
Blanca Segovia.

Hi Diwakar
I changed the creation of Sales Order using only SD_SALESDOCUMENT_CREATE and using Commit Work and it is the same, running the function from se37 create the Sales Order and make the characteristics correctly, but when I try to invoke from The Middleware the message V1 555 The sales document is not yeat complete is displayed and does not update the characteristics.
I Open that Sales order in VA02 and check 'Incompletion Log' the screen show 1 Configuration, I Open the tab of the characteristics without changing the characteristics and only save, then the status changes to Complete document.
You give me another idea that could be happening?
Thank you very much.
Blanca Segovia.

Variant Configuration and pricing in a Sales Order

Hi,
I have been successful in updating variant configuration for a sales order using the function modules 'BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2' to create the sales order and 'BAPI_SALESORDER_CHANGE' to add the variant configuration characteristics on a configurable material.
The issue I am having is that if I don't add the configuration values for pricing the pricing will not automatically update.
I have tried using function module 'CE_C_PROCESSING' to update the pricing after calling BAPI_SALESORDER_CHANGE without success.
Is there anyway to get the pricing to automatically update without adding the variant configuration values related to pricing?
Any help would be appreciated.
Derick

Hi Derick,
We are trying to create a sales order with a configurable item using 'BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2' and the issue that we are facing is we are getting the sales order but the configuration values are not getting populated.
Could you please guide us on how to pass the configuration data to the BAPI to create a sales order with configuration values?
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BAPI for Creating Sales Order For Variant Configuration Materials

Dear Gurus,
Before posting this thread, we have referred many SDN threads, OSS notes and other sites for any sort of help..but no success..All threads and other referrals are not much of help as they are kind of incomplete( Perhaps, we are unable to understand them..no offense).
Few checked threads on this subjects are:
http://scn.sap.com/thread/34590
http://scn.sap.com/thread/851070
http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2014/04/23/update-vc-variant-configuration-data-using-standard-bapi-in-sales-order
http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2014/07/15/creating-orders-with-variant-configured-items-using-bapisalesordercreatefromdat2
http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2014/04/23/update-vc-variant-configuration-data-using-standard-bapi-in-sales-order
http://scn.sap.com/thread/120144
OSS: 549563
Well, we're using the BAPI (BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2) which creates the sales order successfully but without the characteristic values in line items.
We're passing data to the following parameters - ORDER_CFGS_REF, ORDER_CFGS_INST, ORDER_CFGS_VALUE to create the variant config but not able to see it getting created.
Pls find attached BAPI coding document for your reference.
If you could throw any light on this issue will be of great help for us.
Thank You in Advance!!!
Reg,
Jagan-SD.

Jagan nath
Try below.
you would need miimum of 3 segments to pass variant config data using this bapi
ORDER_CFGS_REF for each configurable item
POSEX = ITEM #
CONFIG_id , root_id - Start with 1 and increment it for each configurable line item
ORDER_CFGS_INST
CONFIG_ID - from above
INST_ID - Start with 1 and increment it for each configurable line item
OBJ_TYPE = "MARA'
CLASS_TYPE = '300'
OBJ_KEY = material #
ORDER_CFGS_VALUE
CONFIG_ID for the item, INST_ID for the item
charc for characteristic value
VALUE for characteristic value
Reference thread
How to Fill Configuration Data in BAPI BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2
Hope it will solve your issue.
Thanks
Ritesh

Variant Configuration - Conf. Supporting Points - Planning Profiles

Iu2019m currently working on an implementation where we are implementing R/3 (SD, Manufacturing, LO, FI, etc) and APO Demand Planning. In doing so weu2019re using VC (Variant Configured) Products where weu2019re forecasting at the KMAT Level which should drive the dependent requirements for non-VC items and those VC items that we maintain a Planning Profile (MDP6) and then Conf. Supporting Points for the items. This is fine for the products that we actually want to maintain a split factor for but most of the VC items we have from a planning perspective we donu2019t actually want/need to maintain a probability usage for the VC items. In trying to maintain the Planned Independent Requirements we receive error messages stating we need to maintain the profile and also manage supporting points.
I was able to release a forecast from DP and place it in Demand Management R/3 but if you want to change it in R/3 youu2019re forced to maintain the profile and supporting points. Also, even using the released forecast from DP when I run MRP I get en error message 52 u201CNo BOM Selectedu201D and then opening the order that is generated I get message 61259 Material requires configuration and the message (below) indicates that characteristic values need to be maintained.
What Iu2019m looking for is a way to allow MRP to plan these items without having to maintain a profile for thousands of materials. Also, so it would enable the ability to maintain the forecast for those items in MD62.
ERROR MESSAGE IS BELOW:
Material requires configuration
Message no. 61259
Diagnosis
Orders and requirements for a configurable material must have characteristic values.
Usually, you should create a variation for configurable materials managed in inventory management which has the default variant configuration.
System Response
MRP: Requirements without characteristic values for a material cannot be planned in MRP.
Procedure
Check requirements or orders.
Create a configuration evaluation for the material in the material master record if necessary.

Hi,
Please check below link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ides/helpdata/en/0a/857463c87611d1a7760000e8a5f6c8/content.htm
Regards,
Anil

ATP Check for Components for Variant Configuration

Hi Gurus,
Does it exist a way to perform the ATP Check for components (in variant configuration) like in a test?
I mean, I know that when I create a SO (with the correct settings) the system will perform the ATP Check for components (Missing parts list). But is it possible to do this without trying to create the SO? Maybe a tcode as CU50 or PMEVC where I could enter the variant configuration values, then it explodes the BOM and do the ATP Check (as a simulation).
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

Hi Christopher,
If you enable the "Component Availability" within your configuration profile (under Confign initial screen, Confign Parameters), then you will see an additional option within CU50 while configuring. By pressing this button, you can see an availability check as of the date specified on the CU50 initial screen. You can also modify the quantity on the CU50 initial screen for a more realistic simulation of a sales order (where a customer may order more than one of a product). See screenshots below:
In CU42:
In Value Assignment of CU50:
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