SAP S4HANA Variant Configuration Using Class Items

BOM Classification Method

Most of you are aware of SAP Variant Configuration which support to Make to order manufacturing scenarios. Using extensive features of SAP Variant Configuration, you can support various aspects of Make to Order Manufacturing. You can define SuperBOMs which are supersets of all possible combination of components. these BOMs involve all optional components of which, only a few will go in to Customer's BOM, according to Features selected. Which component is selected for certain customer selection is determined by what is called Object dependencies. You will be able to restrict the selection of features (Characteristics in SAP) as well as options of each feature (Values of characteristics in SAP) to ensure only valid combinations are offered to customers. You can also provide guided selection by populating only features relevant to your initial selections. The costing and pricing of each variant resulting from SuperBOM and Routing are automatically calculated by settings available in Variant Configuration.

However, for simple scenarios you can adopt solution involving Classes of type 200 (Material (Configurable objects) as BOM Items.

According to this solution, You can use class items to control the selection of materials in a Super BOM. these materials are classified in a class of type 200. For each material, values are set for characteristics grouped under the class.

In this course you will understand how the solution works.

The course is structured as:

1. Introduction

2. Demo Data

3. Define Characteristics

4. Define Classes

5. Define Materials

6. Define BOM and Routing

7. Define Configuration Profile

8. Configuration Simulation to verify the solution