Tracking CRM variant config changes in a product

Hi!
I have a requirement to compare variant config material under an equipment sales order. Scenario is:-
Suppose company has sold one product and that product is variant configured. Under configuration tab user has selected different characteristics and because of that characteristics some materials has come under that config material in sales order. Suppose customer has returned that material after some time and now I have to create a follow on return order. My requirement is , I have to check that if that configured material has been changed now (depending upon same characteristic values ) or not. May be that configured material is now having one more component material added that is priced now and that configuration product price has been changed because of that new added component .
Is there any way I can compare that configured material in sales order with regards to todays date. (Depending upon characteristic values) .
Regards
Yogesh

Hi Paul,
Could you please explain the scenerio & requirement little more? thanks for same.
Best Regards,
Vishant Jain

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We use ECC 6.0 with certain features of DIMP (SDUD) turned on for Mill Products (along with Variant Config). After adding the Material Variant on the Production Order, we want to edit/change/add characteristic values to the Class 300 characteristics. I've tested this & while it is possible for a configurable material, system does not allow to change char values on the material variant.
Does anyone know of a way to enhance the system in order to achieve this?
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Just a thought.
let's assume the characteristic you want is called CHAR.
Then create a dummy characteristic called DUMMY. Create values 'ASSIGNED' and 'BLANK' for DUMMY.
Create a dependency for the values of DUMMY
for 'ASSIGNED':
CHAR SPECIFIED
for 'BLANK':
NOT SPECIFIED CHAR
Then go back in each value of characteristic CHAR and create another dependency as follows:
DUMMY eq 'ASSIGNED'
that way the system should only display those values of CHAR for which DUMMY has a value...
It's a bit of a circular thought I know... Not implemented anything like it myself but it just might work

How to find variant config material changes

Hi!
I have a requirement to compare variant config material under an equipment sales order. Scenario is:-
Suppose company has sold one product and that product is variant configured. Under configuration tab user has selected different characteristics and because of that characteristics some materials has come under that config material in sales order. Suppose customer has returned that material after some time and now I have to create a follow on return order. My requirement is , I have to check that if that configured material has been changed now (depending upon same characteristic values ) or not. May be that configured material is now having one more component material added that is priced now and that configuration product price has been changed because of that new added component .
Is there any way I can compare that configured material in sales order with regards to todays date. (Depending upon characteristic values) .
Regards
Yogesh

The material documents are NEVER deleted. You can reverse them (MBSM provides a list of reversed documents) but not delete them.
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Regards
Roberto

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Variant Config w/o Batch Mgmt ?

Experts,
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Hi,
Below are the few issues which sparks immediately.
1. When you Produce materials , the characteristics values cannot be tracked at batch level.
2. The configuraiton will be available only in the sales order.
3. Tracking the configured product in the shop floor would be a huge task.
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Dsk

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Andy,
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/cb/7f944143b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
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BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2 is not carrying out pricing for variant config materials

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562124 Configuration change via
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Rashmi

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Regards,
Sachin M

Hi
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