Variant Configuration, Procedure for BOM Quantity Calculation

Question

Hi, everybody,
I need to solve this problem and can't have any idea if this is possilbe.
Imagine a company that manufactures for customer specific requirement "plastic rectangles" (Length A, Width B).
Finished Product has a ZFG variant class with class 300.
Class ZFG has two characteristics, LENGTH and WIDTH
BOM for the finished product has one item class "Plastic" which can be replaced with any Plastic assigned to this class. Base unit of measure of Plastics is KG. If any plastic code has its own specific weight per area how can I calculate how much weight (Kg) I need  for specific sales order?
The formula is Lenght x Width x Specifi Weight per area of chosen Plastic.
The two first values area characteristics values in configuration, the third one is a value dependent of material (could be a characteristic in plastic class too if this helps.....)
Do you know a way to achieve this? Is it possible to do it using a procedure?.
Thanks and best regards,
Sebastián Ligueros

Answer 1

1. Since youare using class item you will hvae one more characteristics called Plastic type in the Class
2. You can maintian one variant table, in which you can maintain Plastic Type and specific Gravity
3. Now using this you can try to infer the value and using a procedure you should be able to calculate the weight for the BOM item.
Kindly let me know for feedback
Reg,
Dsk