Variant Configuration Materials Costing Scenario

Hi All,
Any one explain me Variant Configuration Materials Costing Scenario in descrete manufacturing?
any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Anusha

Hi,
Can any one explain me step by step configuration in Controlling(CO) for Variant configuration materials? and Explain me process steps in Controlling(CO) module for variant configuration?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Anusha

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Subcontracting With Variant Configuration materials

Hi
Trying to use the subcontracting process with variant config materials. The goal is to be able to select differnt BOM materials based on selection procedures from the BOM. Current testing shows that the proper item cat does not appear in the Purchase Req. I believe this is affecting the functionality. We have the special procurment key of 30 selected in the material and a BOM with selection procedures to pick the proper Bom material. Please advise if this can be done and if so how to go about it.
Thanks
Brian

I mean to say Produciton Version
                                                                                Production Version
Key which determines the various production techniques according to which
     a material can be manufactured.
The production version determines the following:
     o the BOM alternative for a BOM explosion
     o the task list type, the task list group and the task list group
        counter for allocation to task lists
     o lot-size restrictions for repetitive manufacturing
In the subcontracting Inforecord- Purchasing Org data 1 screen - under the Tax code field.

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

Preparation of Cost Sheet using Variant Configuration

We have a requirement which needs to be configured in Standard SAP using variant configuration ( as Suggested by our client ) without using any customized functionality the scenarios is as fallows:
Preparation of Cost Sheet:
Company XX needs to procure material M1 (Like Cartons) for Plant A, plant B which is manufactured by Primary Vendor PV1, PV2.
The price for procurement of material M1 has to be determined using cost sheet
Primary Vendor PV1, PV2 Procures Raw materials and Packaging materials required to manufacture material M1 from Secondary vendor SV1, SV2, SV3
The rates of these materials are added into cost sheet as cost of components.
The rate for these materials varies depending on quota allotted for that particular
Secondary vendor SV1, SV2.
Cost sheet consists of
Cost of Component materials required for mfg Material M1( These components called Feed stock
Materials are procured by secondary vendor)
Working Capital of Primary Vendor
Conversion cost
Discounts
Surcharges
Transportation cost
ETc.....
Well Thanks in Advance....

hi Rav,
as you said i have configured the system and it is working fine.
but the problem is, when creating sales related documents only Sales BOM selection should happen i.e. characteristics which have values related sales must only be shown to the sales person where he makes required selection.
other materials/assemblies which are also configurable and which make complete production BOM are selected by the production person.
what selection a production planner makes must not be shown to the sales person.
for eg; if you want to purchase a color printer you only tell sales guy , i want a color printer which can print at least 10 pages / min. you will not tell him what printer should be made of, what ICs or what PCBs it must have. and also company management may not wish to show all things to the customer/sales person.
if this is the situation how it can be mapped?
alternative item concept can be used, but for a single material if there are 3 or 4 alternatives, will it work properly??
Regards,
Pavan

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.
Thanks
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.
Regards,
Rakesh

ATP Check for Bill of materials in Variant configuration

Hello Guru's,
Will variant configuration supports the following functionality please?
ATP check for Bill of materials in variant configuration is possible, is there any way to put labor cost while working on assembling variants. Material substitution is possible while configure a variant product.
Will any one share your experience that will be of great help.

solved by adding an additional condition in pricing procedure

Variant Configuration Cost in Sales Order

Can you let me know what is the standard way to cost Variant configured items in the sales order? for standard item costs, we use VPRS, but for Variant items, the costs vary depending on the variant characteristics selected. Sales Price is controlled by Variant Pricing...but i wanted to know how Cost for these Items should be set up as a best practice. Some place explode the BOMs into the Sales Order - but some characteristics are not Materials per say. Thanks.

Hi Nhu,
Welcome to SCN.See suppose you created sales BOM. In general the sales bom will explode and appear in sales order.Here we consider only main material only.
Sales BOM Configuration;Sales Bom|Sales BOM Configuration;
[Sales Bom Explanation|http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/sales-bom-implementation.htm]
[Cost Calculation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/90/ba6da4446711d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm]
Check these links if there is any issue please post.
Regards,
Madhu.

Non-configurable materials with EK02 costing

Hi all,
We have a range of non configurable manufactured materials which, when used in standard sales orders, generate a production order and BOM. Presently the cost is automatically generated from the material master and is populated as a VPRS cost.
As these materials have a BOM we want the cost to pick up from the BOM instead, ie as an EK02 cost. If we enter such a material and do a manual recost the EK02 populates in the sales order item conditions but we cannot get it to populate automatically as it does with configurable materials with BOMs.
In the define item categories section in SPRO we have removed the determine cost tick. This has the desired effect of removing the VPRS cost but the EK02 cost still doesn't pull through. In the Bill of Material / Configuration section of the item category we tried setting the structure scope to A (Explode single-level bill of material) and B (Explode multi-level bill of material) but this didn't work. If we set it to D (Configuration, poss. with BOM explosion), then we get the "item can be configured but there is no configuration" error when used in a sales order which is expected as these products have no configuration.
We also tried deleting the standard cost held in the material master to see if, as that value was now blank, it would pick up the EK02 instead but, alas, this also ddn't work.
Any help / suggestions would be most appreciated.
Kind regards, Rob

HI,
We are maintaining the Service masters for the services we render, there is no valuation of Inventory as only service is being rendered.
But we have maintained BOM and Routings for the services we render.
Even there is no valuation class in the serivice masters as this is non valuated.
Can you guide me more on this pls.
Thanks,
Ravi

Variant configuration cost

hallo
sir
in variant configuration i am not able to get the condition vprs for the cost kindly explain is there any configuration to get cost in sales order.
thanks
rahul

Hi Nhu,
Welcome to SCN.See suppose you created sales BOM. In general the sales bom will explode and appear in sales order.Here we consider only main material only.
Sales BOM Configuration;Sales Bom|Sales BOM Configuration;
[Sales Bom Explanation|http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/sales-bom-implementation.htm]
[Cost Calculation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/90/ba6da4446711d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm]
Check these links if there is any issue please post.
Regards,
Madhu.

Problems with bill copying control and materials with variant configuration

Hi experts,
I have a problem with a bill copying control and the way that my customer is trying to create and print the Bill (VF01).
Let me explain...They have in a Sales Order a material with variant configuration per position, each one can have many characteristics. This characteristics must be printing on the billing document, creating different bills 'coz the max. lines number is 18, so the bill must change page per material-characteristics.
Example:
Max. Number Lines = 3
Position 10
Material A
     -Characteristic A
     -Characteristic B
     -Characteristic C     (Bill 1)
     -Characteristic D
     -Characteristic E
     -Characteristic F     (Bill 2)
Position 20
Material B
     -Characteristic A     (Bill 3) counting characteristics upside
     -Characteristic B
     -Characteristic C
     -Characteristic D     (Bill 4)
I created on Tx VOFM (Data Transfer-Billing documents) a routine trying to control this jump, but my problem is when I'm creating the Bill document (VF01) this work only by position, the debugging enter per position.. so I don't have any control to tell the program must count the characteristics and create another bill.
So... Somebody can help me..or have any idea to solve this problem.....
Thxs a lot!!!!
Diego Helfer

HI Diego
For our coming assignment, we do have similar sort of situation. Currently we are in Requirements Gathering phase.
Though we do not have Variant Configuration in place, we do have restriction for no..of items to be used for printing in Billing Documents.
Current proposal is that we will restrict at Sales Order Creation. If the number of items are increasing, we will restrict saving the document and loading has to be done again. As itz better to restrict at initial phase.
Our schema is One Sales Order -> One Delivery -> One Billig Document.
   Will post if we can manage to acheive some other way and do request you the same.
Kind Regards
Eswar

Variant/Sales Order Costing: Plz suggest

Hi Gurus,
My scenario is that the company is making machine tools -
A machine is assembled from about 60 sub-assemblies (60 sub-assemblies in BOM).
Which can be produced in-house or purchased. Each of these sub assemblies have
further child sub-assemblies. This BOM explosion may happen till about 4-6 levels.
In some cases, the suppose the customer already has certain machines which have
say servo motor sub assemblies from Seimens. He would prefer his new machines to
have same servo motors (so that maintenance is easy for him or say his trust lies
in servo motors of 'Seimens' make).
So, at the time of making the order for purchase of a new machine,
the customer may negotiate the scope of supply of parts/sub-assemblies as well.
As a result -
1. Some sub-assemblies (say about 25 of the 60 in the BOM) will be purchased by
the customer at his own end and provided to the machine tool company to be fitted
into his machine. (e.g. he will purchase directly from Seimens and send it to you
to be fitted into his machine.)
2. Some sub-assemblies may be produced by the the machine tool company in-house.
3. Some items may be purchased by the machine tool company from their vendors though
they can also be produced in-house. (e.g. you may decide to buy the sub-assemblies due
to shortage of time for production or there is request from the customer that please
use particular hydraulic components of 'Vickers' make).
In addtion, the customer may also ask for commercial quotation for the machine based on any
of the above permutation combinations (e.g. what will be the price of the machine if you procure all the components or what will be the price if he provides one or more materials). We would also like to view
profitability with respect to each order. How do we do that ?
We are in a position to freeze all this data at the time of punching the sales order.
We will then run MRP.
The MRP should provide the following -
1. Planned/production orders for materials to be produced in-house.
2. Planned orders/purchase requisition for materials to be purchased from Vendors.
3. Some PR (or return sales orders or some other document) to get material from the Customer
so that we are able to follow-up incase he delays sending the materials.
4. In case the sub-assembly is to be purchased the system should not give production orders for its child parts.
Kindly suggest how to map a solution of this scenario.
Shud I make Sales order BOM or variant configuration or what ?
Thanks and Regards,
-V

Hi Vishal,
I suggest that your cost of BOM is so dynamic and everything is driven by the Customer, it is better to go for Make to Order (Make to Sales Order) where you can cost it as per the customer instead of having a Std cost.
But inspite of having Sales order BOM, your requirement would drive each sub-assembly would have a make or buy decision (Procurmenet types - Both), so you might need to go ahead with Split Valuation where you can maintain one valuation with Inhouse Production and another valuation with External Procurement.
I dont think Variant would suit your requirement.
Regards,
Suraj

CO-product configuration in REM scenario

I am trying to configure co-product scenario with REM process. Is it possible?
If any one worked on this scenario please let me know what are the special consideration we need to take or any SAP note available?
Thanks in advaice.
Rajesha Vittal

in HELP.SAP.COM is the answer.
Product Cost Collector
Definition
Cost object in Product Cost by Period that collects the periodic actual costs incurred in the production of a material. When you use a product cost collector, the product is the main cost object.
Use
Product cost collectors are independent of the production type. This means that you can collect actual costs on product cost collectors in the following production environments:
In order-related production (that is, when you are using production orders) when you want to analyze the costs by period rather than by lot
In process manufacturing (that is, when you are using process orders) when you want to analyze the costs by period rather than by lot
Repetitive manufacturing
In repetitive manufacturing you always use product cost collectors as cost objects.
Product cost collectors are available from Release 4.5A onwards. In earlier releases, the costs of repetitive manufacturing materials were collected on production cost collectors. From Release 4.5A onwards, production cost collectors are converted into product cost collectors. For information on the conversion process, see Converting Production Cost Collectors into Product Cost Collectors.
Order splits for production orders
When you split production orders, the costs for the parent order and child order are allocated to the same product cost collector.
See also: Order Splits in Cost Object Controlling
Constraints
Product cost collectors cannot be used for the following objects and production environments:
Manufacturing orders that settle to a sales order item if you are using a nonvaluated sales order stock in sales-order-related production
Sales-order-related production with a valuated sales order stock, except in repetitive manufacturing environments
Engineer-to-order environments
Manufacturing orders that are part of a collective order
Joint production
Joint production is a production process that yields two or more products in a single production run. In the Product Cost Controlling component (CO-PC), there are a number of special processing requirements in joint production environments regarding Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP) and Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ).
In shop floor control, a manufacturing order (usually a process order) is created to manufacture co-products. In the manufacturing order, co-products are carried on the order items.
In Cost Object Controlling, actual costs are collected on the header of the manufacturing order. At the end of the period, the actual costs on the order header are distributed to the individual order items. Work in process and variances are calculated at the order item level. The order items are then settled.
Integration
In joint production, the system normally accesses master data of Production Planning for the Process Industries (PP-PI) such as the master recipe and materials list, or master data of Production Planning (PP) . To distribute the planned and actual costs to the co-products, the system uses the apportionment structure that can be specified the material master record or in the manufacturing order itself.
Terminology
Co-product
You specify that a material is a co-product by selecting the Co-product indicator in the MRP view or costing view of its master record.
Fixed-price co-product
A fixed-price co-product is a special type of co-product.
Primary product
You specify that a material is a primary product by selecting the Co-product indicator in the MRP view or costing view of its master record.
Process material
A process material is a nonstock material that is used in the R/3 System to represent the process by which co-products are produced. Instead of the primary products, you can enter a process material in the recipe header and in the order header.
Process materials have material type PROC.
By-product
A by-product is a product that is produced incidental to the production process of other products. You enter by-products in the material list of a primary product or process material with a negative quantity.
You do not set the Co-product indicator in the MRP view or costing view of the master records of by-products.
Intra material
Intra materials only exist temporarily between two processing steps. Intra materials appear in the material list as items of category M, but are not costed.
If the process is interrupted because of a malfunction, however, intra materials may have to be transferred into inventory. In this case they are valuated with a price in the material master that is selected through the valuation variant for the valuation of goods received.
Intra materials have material type INTR.
Circulating material
You can specify whether the cost of a circulating material should be included in the material list. The system selects a price for the circulating material from the costing view of the material master record.
If the circulating material is flagged as relevant to costing, the material costs appear in the itemization twice: once with a plus sign and once with a minus sign. The balance is the material input costs.

Sales Order text for Variant Configuration

Hello
I have researched my issue and also have asked other peers for guidance. I feel that I am really close to getting my issue to work but I am not sure what I am missing, so I am hoping that someone can give me some advice as to what to check please. See below for the description.
My issue is in reference to SD Variant Configuration and is outlined below.
Overview
Main Unit is a radio test set
Test set can have an upgraded software
Example
Model 6015 u2013 standard test set
Model 6015T u2013 Upgraded software test set
Model 6015V u2013 Upgraded Software + test Set
Requirement
Use same Material Number using Variant Configuration for the upgrades
Price is to default to the Upgraded price
NOTE:
Our materials are already established and are set up as material type Finished Goods; ERLA item category; sales order item category is a copy of TAC. I am using a Configurable Material type KMAT, item category 0002 and linking to the FG material item category ERLA in the material master.
I have created the Material Variant (KMAT) in MM01
Created the characteristic in CT04
Created Classification in MM02 for material FG
Created Super BOM for Configurable Material in CS01 and added the upgrades as Alt Bom 2 for upgrade and 3 for Upgrade+. Also added the Alt BOM text
Created Profile of configurable material in CU41
For the Material I added the configurable material to MRP 3 screen in MM02
Created the BOM link in CS40
I simulate the material in CU50. I enter my material; select the icon for configuration, I can see the characteristic Value Assignment nad see my characteristics Description. I go to the value and use the drop down I then see the pop up of all the different values.
I have created Characteristic Reference VCSD_UPDATE_ARKTX with table VCSD_UPDATE and field ARKTX - no values
I have created a characteristic Test_Choice with the 2 values one is Test Upgrade 1 and the other is Test Upgrade 2. Both of these have the description as well.
For Material Text:
I have set up a reference characteristic using 30 character format (named VCSD_UPDATE_ARKTX),
with table name VCSD_UPDATE and field name ARKTX.
Then in the Configuration Profile(CU42) for configurable material, added a procedure(named PR_PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION) to the dependencies which contains code that sets the description
$self.VCSD_UPDATE_ARKTX = ''Test Upgrade 1u201D
If $self.TEST_CHOICE = Test_Upgrade_1,
$self.VCSD_UPDATE_ARKTX = ''Test Upgrade 2u201D
If $self.TEST_CHOICE = Test_Upgrade_2,
When Entering the sales order for Material Number XXXXXX, I receive a pop up that I can select which Alternate BOM (from CS02) I would like. I select my line item and then select the configuration icon at the bottom of the sales order. I see again my characterestics values (the same as CU50) but am unable to select the radio button. Not sure if this part is standard. Still no change in the sales order line item. I have validated that I am using a copy of the standard TAC item category. How does the text change to the correct value? Am I missing a seeting somewhere. Please provide any guidance with this as I have been trying to get this to work for over a month.
Thank you for your time. It is greatly appreciated.

I have figured out that this will work if I go to the standard material (it is not KMAT but it is a FERT material type) and set the flag in the Material Master Basic Data 2 tab that this is a configurable material and not use KMAT material type for a super BOM. The text changes for this scenario so it give me hope.
This is not ideal, as I want to use the Super BOM because there are different variations (non stock items) that I need to pull through on the picking list in order to tell the end user which option needs to be loaded in the standard material. At least I know the text can change on the sales order; but I am still struggling with the use of the super BOM and changing the sales text when there is use of a super bom as you tie that to the MRP 3 screen of the FERT material type. I can set everything up, but the text will not change if I set up the material master this way. Guidance is appreciated.
Example
Material 72433 (FERT)
on sales order I enter 72433, my alternate BOM comes up with different Options. Alternate BOM 1 is standard configuration; My Alternate BOM 2 has Option 3 and 4 while alternate BOM 3 has option 5 and 6. Alternate BOM 2 is a 6015T and Alternate BOM 3 is a 6015V.
I want my sales order to pull through the text of 6015T or 6015V, whichever is chosen. I want my picklist to print out the option that was selected.

Configurable material cost estimate

Hi All,
We have lot of configurable materials and some are finished materials and some are semi-finished.
If semi-finished configurable material used in Finished materials, Semi-finished configurable material costs is not roll up correctly for Finished material.
Only labor costs are rolling up and material costs not rolling up
Valuation variants material price is:valuation according to price control.
any help is appreciated...
Thanks,
Anusha

Hi,
In OKTZ have you tick on Roll up cost component against the Cost component of material .
This indicator determines whether the costing results of a cost component are rolled up into the next-highest
Regards,
Shayam
Edited by: Shayam_210 on Sep 29, 2011 6:40 AM

Variant Configuration Materials Costing Scenario

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