MTS Production with Configurable Material

Hi Experts,
I am working on IS Mill solution. we also have the configurable material. Normally the client's business is MTO. But in some cases they want to use Make To Stock also. But the problem is for make to stock with configurable material is not possible.
As it is possible if they have APO (IS-Mill functionality). But here we are using ECC-MRP.
Can anybody suggest some SAP note for this??
Thanks in Advance !!
SISL

Hi SISL
I am working at a Danish company named Vestas Wind Systems and we want also to start up doing make-to-stock using configurable material and would like to avoid a very high number of material variants.
We are already using APO in our company (SNP) and therefore I believe it should be a possibility.
Is this tied together with characteristic based planning in APO?? I have heard that this characteristic based planning only is possible on one level, is that also your experience??
I would really like to get my hands on some documentation on how to use SAP ECC and APO to handle make-to-stock of configurable materials, so if you can provide me with such documentation, it would be highly appreciated. It seems like you have some experience in this area.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best Regards
Kim Hald Kristensen
SAP PLM Specialist

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configurable product is interpreted and exploded according to the characteristic values assigned.
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from function) or allocate the configured material to the task list for the configurable product in the
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characteristic values assigned. The interpretation includes the processing of selection conditions
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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
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stock.
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material.
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The variant can be entered in a purchase order. The configuration of the variant is copied from
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Strategies for Variants
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Low Variance
This section describes how to plan products that have a practical limited number of possible
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material are, for example, defined to prefabricate frequently required configurations and place
them in stock, which is why variants were formerly called stockable types.
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Variants can be planned on the finished product level using any make-to-stock strategy, such as
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