Variant Configuration Planning Strategy

Hello All,
We are using Variant configuration and we want to maintain independent requirements for the dependent materials. The main material will be make to order and we want the dependent requirements from the main material to reduce the independent requirements maintained for the dependent materials. Please let what planning stratagies should i use for the main material and dependent materials. Due points will be awarded.

I don't know if R/3 supports full fledged planning based on characteristics but I do know characteristics based planning can be done in APO. The following documents talks a little bit about planing characteristics in the end in R/3, you may want to take a look at it.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/903bb9b8-f15b-2910-8381-ab05bdcac2c1?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true

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Variant configuration- with strategy 40

Hi,
We have gone variant configuration. And our planning strategy is 40 with weekly lot size.
Now the sales orders are created with different characterisitic values for same material
EX - sales order 1 - 10 pcs- size 20.
sales order2- 15 pcs - size 40.
sales order 3 - 20 pcs - size 30.
here size is a characteristic.
The sales orders generated in a week are combined (because of weekly lot size) into one planned order.and into production order.
The production order thus generated is combineinng the total quantities of different sales order.
My question is how the production departtment should how much quantity is of what size.(characteristic).
Thanks in advance
Kalyan

Hello
As a Best Practice . for VCs you should activate ND in MRP1 - material masteri.e. No Planning , and there is config in SD ( requirement class for Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements ) thru which the Production Order will be created automatically as soon as Sales Order for VC materials in created..
IMG path -
Hope it makes sense.
pl come back in case of further questions..
BR

Configuration planning Strategy task bwtn PP/SD Consultant

Hello Consultant
As we known, planning strategy is incdluing two elements( requirements type for PIR; Requirement type for customer requirement) path:SPRO>Production>Production Planning>Demand Management>Planned Independent Requirements>Planning Strategy>Define Strategy)
In you experienced project, if PP consultant was in charge of config "Reqmts type for indep.reqmts" and SD Consultant shoud be in charge of Config"Reqmt type of customer reqmt "?
or PP Consultant should be responsibled for two parts configuration? including(Reqmts type for indep.reqmts/Reqmt type of customer reqmt).
Please advice.
Benny
Edited by: benny zeng on May 20, 2010 10:26 AM

Dear ,
PP consultant is the in charge of Planning Strategy -Define Planning Strategy (SPRO) based on the Requirement Type(OVZH) and Requirement Class(OVZG) for for sales Item categoery under basic function of SD module .
Now , most of the parametrs which have activated or relevent from sales side (Req.Transfer ,Account Assingment Categoery , Customer requirement type , Order Type etc) are configured in OVZG by SD consutnat and same has been assinged to requirement type in ovzg .
Once you did this , PP consultant will decide on the Planning Strategy group in SPRO-MRP-PIR and check wether respective parametrs are flowed in that strategy .
So i would rather say , its a combine effort based on the clinet requirement .
Regards
JH

Variant Configuration - Planning tables disappearing from planning profiles

Hi everyone,
I'm having a strange problem with some planning profiles I've set up in MDPH for several of our configurable products. I'm getting reports from our production planners that certain planning tables within these profiles are suddenly disappearing from the profiles, along with all the values they've input for those characteristics. This is apparently happening without anyone making any changes to the profiles.
By way of background, I've recently created several new variant models (including planning profiles) for a new series of products, several of which share characteristics with the variants that are experiencing the problem I described. Is it possible that this might somehow be impacting the planning profiles of the old variants?
Any help is greatly appreciated. We're running 4.6c, FYI.
Thanks,
- Greg

Hello Anil,
Thank you very much for your reply. I've read both notes you referenced and they seemed very promising in that the symptoms described match what we are seeing. Unfortunately, however, they don't seem to reflect the root cause of the problem I'm seeing. Our users are logging in in English, and we have English names for the characteristics in question. Also, we are on a later patch version (55) than the one that fixed this issue (51). So I don't think this one will help us to fix the issue.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know. Thank you again for your help on this!
Regards,
- Greg

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

Error in Variant Configuration CO684

Hello, friends !
Back in the forum, now with a problem in Variant Configuration.
I was able to carry out the whole process up to the creation of the production order. There I have the error message CO 684 "You cannot make an assignment to make to order stock" .
All the configuration stuff seems to be OK.
I created a sales order configuring the product.
The MRP creates a planned order in the Customer Segment of the MD04.
The components have the special stock E.
I have tried with stock available in warehouse and also tranferring to E using MB1B movement type 412 E.
But the error still remains !!
Any tip or clue ??
Thanks in advance.
Dario

Rajesha,
for the KMAT we have:
strategy group: 25
Individual: 1
In the sales Order:
Item Category: TAC
Requirement Type: KEK (in the procurement Tab); class should be 046.
However, in the controlling for sales order there is no entry for:
TAC " " 046 , only for Class 041, in the Assignment of Requirements Type to transaction.
In the planned order: Account Assigmnment: M (it takes from strategy 25)
Settlement Profile (In the order Type) SD1.
Result Analysis Key: ?? (where can I find it??)
Regards

Variant configuration u2013 availability check for Configurable material

Hi Guys,
We are doing the variant configuration scenario for one of our client. We are using planning strategy as 25 (sales order with variant configuration).
When we configure the Configurable material at sales order level, we wanted to check the availability check of Configurable for the combination of selected characteristics.
How we can configure it in the system.
Regards,
Shailendra

Hi,
availability check will work as per the checking group you had defined in system.
additionaly you need to put tick in configuration profile for availability check.
checking for material varient is optional, if your bussiness has materail varients you can activate type matching and while configuring the sales order if the values of charactersticks matches system will suggest you the the appropiate varient and you can replace your configurable material in sales order with it.
hope it will help you.
If you need some more information please explain what exactly your are expecting from system during availability check.
Regards
Ritesh
Edited by: R S D on May 28, 2009 7:29 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

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

Configuration plan

Hi,
I have a scenario where I have a material A that has a BOM with the following material types:
DIEN- services
HALB Finished goods
KMAT Configurable material
ROH Raw material.
As there are KMATs in there, I guess, I have to go for variant configuration.
Questions:
1. How do you plan production for this material A in ECC system?
2. How do you forecast for material A in ECC system?
Kindly please let me know if my question is too open or I need to give more information.
Thanks.

Hi
One aspect I know of KMAT materials is that the consumption and the requiremetns are being taken care of by means of Planning Strategies/Strategy groups.
The strategies 56, 70, 89 are suited for characteristics planning for KMAT materials based on the kind of planning needed. Also have a cursory look on the report RM60CH00 which creates the Planned Independent requriments at the components level.
Reward point if it helps.

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!
Regards,
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

Tolerance Limits for Class Character in Variant Configuration

HI all,
We are Using Variant Configuration, for this we have linked MIC's to Class character, When The Inspection Lot is created the Lower & Upper Limit in the specification comes as the character Value.it does not takes in to consedration the tolerance key assigned to it. For E.g. Charater Dia has value 20, & in the Tolerance key for 20 +/- 0.10 is maintained, when the Inspection lot is created the Upper & lower Limit comes as 20-20 instead 19.9 - 20.1
I have gone through SAP Note 210658, the sample code provided in note is for "Material Specification" I have tried the same with minor code correction the specifications in the lot comes as desired i.e. specifications in the lot consider the tolerance key.
Our Requirment is of task list, in the same not EXIT for task list is also mentioned but no souce code is provided, when we are using the above program (Used for Material Specification) after doing the desired changes, & when we run in de-bugging mode it shows all the calculations are being done, but finally in the lot specification appear as the charater value ( 20-20) & in the inspection lot One first MIC comes it delete's all other MIC's assigned in the Plan.
Has any body worked on this requirment, please let me know how to do the same, & if any body has used EXIT_SAPLQPAP_001 (Enhancement QPAP0001.)Plese provide me with the soution if any one has worked on it.
Thanks & Regards
Gaurav Behl

Hi ravi,
I did't work on class hierarachies but i do have a document regarding classification.
Regards,
Kanth

Regd : Error during saving the sales order for Variant configuration

Hi -
When the item( config material) is saved in the sales order , system scheduled the production order and getting an error as " Posting Rule for Assembly order for item 000010 could not be generated".
Any solutions regarding the error.

Hi,
This is the process of Assembly to order with variant configuration. In material master, you can maintain gen item category 0002 (configurable material) in basic data view, sales 2 view item category grp 0002 and strategy group 82 in MRP 3 view. After creating of material master, BOM & Routing, You can create sales order in VA01 transaction.
In this VA01, When you create sales order, system will check material availability, capacity checking and system will show variants for each items. And also when you will save the sales order, system will create production order no immdiately.
So you can maintain the above settings compulsory.
please let me know any clarification.
Regards,
Mohan

Why don't we do the confirmation in variant configuration?

Hello guys,
As far as i know that in variant configuration we don't do the confirmation, we directly do the goods receipt.Is it right?If yes than why?
Following are the steps we do while doing the variant configuration scenario:
1)First we create the characteristics and give the values inside it.
2)Then we create the class of class type 200 and give characteristics defined in it.
3)Then we create the variant of class type 300 and give all the characteristics inside it.
4)Now we create the configurable material with Basic data 1,2, MRP 1,2,3,4 , Classification view ,workscheduling view.
In classification view, we give the variant of class type 300.So it shows all the characteristics and its value over there.There we select all the values.
5)Now we create the super bom of configurable material and in class tab we give all the classes of class type 200.Here even we can maintain the dependencies if we define all the characteristics value in item tab.
6)Then we create the super routing and inside it we give all the possible operations inside it.Right now my routing contains operations which are necessary all the times.
7)Then we create the configurable profile for configurable material of class type 300.
8)Now we give the requirement in md81 for configurable material and there we select the characteristics values which we want.
9)After that we run the mrp for configurable material and it generates procurement proposals(planned order) for it.
10) Afer this we convert this planned order into production order and release it and save it.
11) After this we do the goods receipt for the production order in mb31.Because of this it shows the stock of sales order as production order qty.
This procedure my tutor has taught me.Have i missed any steps or am i wrong somewhere?If that the case than plz guide me.

if you can generate a production order then you can always confirm it according to SAP PP logic.
we use variant configuration for the manufacturing of complex products. once the component quantities and
operation are selected for a particular variant and copied to Production order, the rest of the process is same
as normal Production Control. Revert back with any queries you have.
Regards,

When will EK02 appear in the Sales Order?? For different planning strategy?

Hi Experts,
In our SAP system ,when you create a sales order with a material which planning strategy is
50 Planning without final assembly (MTO) , in the item detail screen , on the "Conditions"
TAB, we will see condition type EK02 and its value.
But when I create a sales order with a material which planning strategy is 40 Planning with
final assembly (MTS),in the item detail screen , on the "Conditions" TAB, condition type
EK02 will not appear.
I have checked the customizing of our SAP system ,as follows:
For planning strategy 50, the Requirements class is "045"(MTO val. with cons.),and on the
configuration screen of Requirements class,we see "Condition type for copying costs from
line items" (CndTyLineItems) is null ,no value ,not "EK02".
And for planning strategy 50,the the Requirements class is "050"(Warehouse consumpt.) and
and on the configuration screen of Requirements class,we see "Condition type for copying
costs from line items" (CndTyLineItems) is also null ,no value ,not "EK02".
And on the configuration screen of Sale Order Type screen(VOV8), we see "Condition type for
copying costs from line items" (CndTyLineItems) is "EK02" for all the sales order type we
have used.
So I am very confused.
Why material with planning strategy 40 there is no EK02 in the sales order?
Why material with planning strategy 50 there is EK02 in the sales order?
Where is the EK02 come from? The requriement class ? Or the Salse order Type?
Are there any other customizing for Condition type EK02 determination?
Thanks very for any reply!!

Hi,
In MTO you will create Process order.
And to Produce a Item you use Sub components that is Raw material
That raw material cost is EK02 which you maintain in the Material Master - Accounting View 1.
You can see cost in the Process Order also .
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