Configurable Material and Material Variants
Configurable Material and Material Variants
Configurable Material and Material Variants
Purpose
In this document it is described how to create and integrate a configurable material and how to
create/configure material variants within the material master.
Overview
It will be described how to create a configurable material, how to create a configuration profile,
how to create and configure a material variant, how to integrate all the master data to APO and
how to check the data in APO after integration. For the purpose of this cook book, we consider that
the class and the characteristics have already been created in ECC and integrated to APO.
Table of Contents
Purpose
Overview
Example Creation
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Example Creation
Create a configurable material (MM01): xx_conf_mat
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Select Views Basic Data 1, Basic Data 2, Classification, MRP1, MRP2, MRP3, MRP4
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Press enter
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Assign to the Material a class that has Class Type 300 (Variants)
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Enter the Material Name of your Configurable Material and press enter
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Press enter
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Save
Execute transaction MM01 and create a new Material. The steps are similar to previous
section where a configurable material was created, but with a few differences
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Press F8
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You will be back at MRP3 tab. Check that Variant flag has now been set
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For Cross-Plant configuration, go to tab Basic Data 2 and execute the same steps
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Go to Classification tab. There, you should see the Configurable Material specified as
Reference Product (Location). Also when pressing the green triangle next to the Reference Product,
you can see the valuation of the variant