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SAP R/3. For more information, visit the Manufacturing homepage.
Summary
The Client Company is in the Business of Manufacturing Electronic Panel. The Electronic Panel has complex
product structure. Client like to offer wide amount of selection options for different product components
which will be helpful to the customer or salesperson to put together specifications for the product and ensure
that the product can be produced from these specifications. The important thing is to react quickly to
customers' requirements. Client expects to implement Variant Configuration with minimum dependencies
data to be created through SAP Best Practices.
Author Bio
Meghasham has about 13 years of total experience. Out of which 6 years in SAP R/3 in Implementation and
Rollout project as a SAP PP Team Lead, functional consultant, Functional Support, Core team member and
end user. Currently a part of the SAP functional team in L&T Infotech ltd.
Customer’s Expectations
The Client expects to implement Variant Configuration by maintaining minimum amount of Dependency data.
And they expect to have this though SAP Best Practices. To implement the Variant, it requires maintaining
dependencies particularly for Selecting the Component from BOM. Dependency type “Selection Condition” is
to be maintained and need to be assigned in the BOM Component. So this requires large amount of
Dependency Data and also number of components in BOM also gets increased.
This characteristics is also need to be assigned in Configurable Class of Class Type 300,
See the characteristics “Characteristics 1” have values which represents the components. Select the value
“COMPONT1”,
Related Content
Reference (site) 1 – Variant Configuration
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/92/58d455417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm
Reference (site) 2 – BOMs
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/a0/1016bd4c8311d189520000e829fbbd/frameset.htm