Setup Configurable Model using Variant Configuration (22T)

Improve your company's product engineering, sales, and manufacturing performance with SAP software for integrated variant configuration and classification. Enable your business process to handle highly individualized products in sales and manufacturing.

A comprehensive simulation environment supports state-of-the-art configuration, sophisticated analysis of your configurable products, and real-time integration to the configurable BOM Explosion. Get support from integrated requirements management.

Key Process Steps Covered

Create characteristics for class (to be used for variant configuration)
Create class (to be used for variant configuration)
Assign class to product
Create variant table
Maintain variant table content
Create configuration profile
Create and assign grouping
Create constraint net
Create and assign high-level dependencies
Create super BOM
Add stock item
Add class node item
Add low level dependencies
Simulate configurable BOM
2G4: Requirements driven development
Create and assign high-level dependencies
Perform simulation and root cause check

Benefits

Reduce costs and optimize usability with sophisticated variant configuration
Increase sales force efficiency by higher tool support within order configuration to allow the sales force to focus on selling
Increase modeling efficiency for new configured product modeling by effective simulation of new product variants and options
Reduce time to market for new products by advanced variant configuration modeling and effective simulation of new product variants and options
Establish efficient collaboration between requirements management and modeler