SD Variant Configuration - characteristic value computation

Hi Everyone
Greetings from Vinod
i am creating a variant material which has 3 characteristics. out of the 3 characteristics, 2 are inputed by the user and the third characteristic needs to be populated with the difference of the 2 chatacteristic values that we have entered before. is there a standard setting that we have to maintain, or should we do a custom development on the same. the third characteristic value which is computed based on the difference of the precious two characteristic will then derive pricing of the variant material. please throw some suggestions and inputs in this discussion.

Hi,
calculating values of characteristics is done with so-called dependencies.
In a dependency you can define the rule how a value should be calculated.
You have to create a class of class type 300 and assign your characteristics to this class.
Assign the class to a material of material type "Configurable Materials".
Open the material with transaction PMEVC (Modeling Environment for Variant Configuration).
There you maintain a dependency of type procedure.
The source code may look like this for your example:
$SELF.CHARACTERISTIC_3 = CHARACTERISTICS_1 - CHARACTERISTIC_2
You can find details for variant configuration on help.sap.com:
http://help.sap.com
-> SAP ERP
-> SAP ERP Central Component
-> Logistics
-> Logistics - General
-> Variant Configuration (LO-VC)
Details on transaction PMEVC (Modeling Environment for Variant Configuration):
http://help.sap.com
-> SAP ERP
-> SAP ERP Central Component
-> Logistics
-> Logistics - General
-> Variant Configuration (LO-VC)
-> Modeling Environment for Variant Configuration
Information on dependencies:
http://help.sap.com
-> SAP ERP
-> SAP ERP Central Component
-> Logistics
-> Logistics - General
-> Variant Configuration (LO-VC)
-> Dependencies
and
-> Dependency Syntax: General Rules
Best regards,
Sebastian

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