Variant Configuration training material

Dear All,
If any body is having step by step training material of Variant Configuration in SAP with screen shots starting from material creation to sales order creation then plz share to me.
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Plz share any kind of material of Variant Configuration.
Thanks in advance
Edited by: Rob Burbank on Dec 1, 2010 4:13 PM

Hi,
General Steps:
1: Creat configurable material with Material is configurable indicator active (or use KMAT mat.type)
2: Maintain all related fields in MRP and Sales views for configurable material.
3: Creat Super BOM/ Super Routing.
4: Creat charecteristics, values as required and assign charecterisitcs in a class of class type 300 created. (class type 200
    can also be used with some changes)
5: Assign class created in the classification view of the configurable material in material master. You can define mulitiple
    classes.
6: Maintain object dependencies in super BOM and super Routing, if required in charecteristics also you can maintaine ODs.
    (use of different ODs such as pre conditions, selection conditions, procedures and contraints depending on scenario)
7: Maintain Configuration profile for configurable material with all necessary fields.
8: Now VC is ready for use. Create Sales order system will popup a window to select different options.
9: Save sale order, convert sales order to production order and proceed with normal production execution steps.
Refer the following link for better understanding.
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/print46c/en/data/pdf/LOVC/LOVC.pdf
Regards,
Pa1

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try this may be it will help to you,.
REPORT ZVRDOC0 no standard page heading
line-size 300
line-count 50(5).
TABLES : vbak, "Sales Document Header Level
vbap, "Sales Document Header Level
kna1. "General Data in customer Master
*INTERNAL TABLE T_VBAP
DATA : Begin of t_vbap occurs 0,
       vbeln like vbap-vbeln,
       matnr like vbap-matnr,
       posnr like vbap-posnr,
       arktx like vbap-arktx,
       kwmeng like vbap-kwmeng,
       cmkua like vbap-cmkua,
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*INTERNAL TABLE T_TAB.
DATA : Begin of t_tab occurs 0,
        vbeln like vbak-vbeln,
        kunnr like vbak-kunnr,
        audat like vbak-audat,
        netwr like vbak-netwr,
        vkorg like vbak-vkorg,
        name1 like kna1-name1,
        land1 like kna1-land1,
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*INTERNAL TABLE T_FINAL.
DATA : Begin of t_final occurs 0,
        vbeln like vbap-vbeln,
        kunnr like vbak-kunnr,
        matnr like vbap-matnr,
        posnr like vbap-posnr,
        arktx like vbap-arktx,
        kwmeng like vbap-kwmeng,
        cmkua like vbap-cmkua,
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        netwr like vbak-netwr,
        vkorg like vbak-vkorg,
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        land1 like kna1-land1,
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start-of-selection.
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IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
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move :
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t_vbap-matnr to t_final-matnr,
t_vbap-posnr to t_final-posnr,
t_vbap-arktx to t_final-arktx,
t_vbap-kwmeng to t_final-kwmeng,
t_vbap-cmkua to t_final-cmkua,
t_tab-kunnr to t_final-kunnr,
t_tab-audat to t_final-audat,
t_tab-netwr to t_final-netwr,
t_tab-vkorg to t_final-vkorg,
t_tab-name1 to t_final-name1,
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ULINE /1(250).
endat.
write : /1 SY-VLINE, 2 t_final-vbeln color 5 inverse,
20 SY-VLINE, 21 t_final-posnr color 5 inverse,
40 SY-VLINE, 41 t_final-matnr color 5 inverse,
60 SY-VLINE, 61 t_final-arktx color 4 inverse,
80 SY-VLINE, 81 t_final-kwmeng color 4 inverse,
100 SY-VLINE, 101 t_final-cmkua color 4 inverse,
120 SY-VLINE, 121 t_final-kunnr color 3 inverse,
140 SY-VLINE, 141 t_final-audat color 3 inverse,
160 SY-VLINE, 161 t_final-netwr color 2 inverse,
180 SY-VLINE, 181 t_final-vkorg color 2 inverse,
210 SY-VLINE, 211 t_final-name1 color 1 inverse,
230 SY-VLINE, 231 t_final-land1 color 1 inverse,
250 SY-VLINE.
at end of vbeln.
sum.
ULINE /1(250).
write: /60 SY-VLINE, 'Total' ,
81 t_final-kwmeng color 4 inverse ,100 SY-VLINE,
101 t_final-cmkua color 4 inverse,120 SY-VLINE.
ULINE /1(250).
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at last.
SKIP 2.
sum.
ULINE /1(250).
write: /1 SY-VLINE, 60 SY-VLINE, 'Grand Total' ,
81 t_final-kwmeng color 4 inverse , 100 SY-VLINE ,
101 t_final-cmkua color 4 inverse,120 SY-VLINE.
ULINE /1(250).
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TOP-OF-PAGE.
ULINE /50(24).
WRITE : /50 SY-VLINE , 52 'SALES ORDER DETAILS' COLOR 5,
73 SY-VLINE.
ULINE /50(24).
ULINE .
WRITE: /10 'CURRENT DATE :', 25 SY-DATUM COLOR 1 INVERSE,
100 'CURRENT TIME :', 115 SY-UZEIT color 5 INVERSE.
WRITE: /10 'USERNAME :', 25 SY-UNAME COLOR 1 INVERSE,
100 'PAGE NO :', 113 SY-PAGNO COLOR 5 INVERSE.
WRITE: /10 'LOGON CLIENT :', 25 SY-MANDT COLOR 1 INVERSE,
100 'COLON N0 :', 114 SY-COLNO COLOR 5 INVERSE.
WRITE: /10 'CURRENT REPROT:', 25 SY-REPID COLOR 1 INVERSE,
100 'LANGUAGE :', 116 SY-LANGU COLOR 5 INVERSE.
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ULINE /1(250).
write : /1 SY-VLINE, 2 'SALES DOC NO' color 6 inverse,
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40 SY-VLINE,41 'MATERIAL NO' color 6 inverse,
60 SY-VLINE, 61 'SHORT SALES TEXT' color 6 inverse,
80 SY-VLINE, 81 'CUMM ORDER SALES' color 6 inverse,
100 SY-VLINE, 101 'CREDIT DATA' color 6 inverse,
120 SY-VLINE, 121 'CUSTOMER NO' color 6 inverse,
140 SY-VLINE, 141 'DOC DATE' color 6 inverse,
160 SY-VLINE, 161 'NET VALUE SALES' color 6 inverse,
180 SY-VLINE, 181 'SALES ORG' color 6 inverse,
210 SY-VLINE, 211 'CUSTOMER NAME' color 6 inverse,
230 SY-VLINE, 231 'CUSTOMER CONTY' color 6 inverse,
250 SY-VLINE.
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