SAP S/4 HANA Variant Configuration for MTO and MTS scenarios

In this demo, the definition of Configurable Material is explained with all setup required for Configuration. Mapping Class type 300 to configurable material and other configurations are covered.

In addition,  definition of raw materials used as options in BOM of configurable item are explained. Apart from basic setup  Special focus was on key configuration steps in Classification tab. to map individual values of Characteristics to material through class type 200.

In this lesson, object dependency types that were part of scope for this course, are explained from conceptual level.

In this lesson, you are briefed about various operators used between variable and characteristic names while writing the conditions.

This lesson runs through brief topics of:

• Arithmetic Operators

• Logical Operators

• Comparison Operators

• Intervals and Ranges

• Special features such as Lists

• Syntax rules for Characteristic names, variable and Characteristic Values etc

This lesson briefly walks through three important object variables namely $Root, $Self and $Parent.

Some important Built-in Functions are discussed in this lesson. This lesson will also conclude this section.

Defining BOM for configurable material is a bit different from normal definition of Production BOM.

In this demo,

1. Adding class item in the BOM to cover some set of characteristics (Body Color) is explained.

2. Effect of adding variant class to Configurable Material in Classification tab of Material master in BOM is shown

3. Narrowing down selection of all optional components in BOM of Configurable material is shown through definition of Object dependencies and selection conditions.

4. Demo covered  Selection conditions with

• 1-1 mapping between Characteristic value and component, (Most of the characteristic values and corresponding components)

• 1- many mapping between characteristic value and components (AUTOGear to multiple components in BOM) and

• many-1 mapping between Characterisc value and components (4 gear to clutch and gears of quantity 4)

• All key features in selection condition editor such as syntax checks, input help, loading conditions from external sources are explained.

Defining Task List  for configurable material is a bit different from normal definition of Production Routing.

In this demo,

1. Defining all tasks including those which are optional. That means out of these optional tasks only a few will go to the Production Routing generated from customer selection

2.  Narrowing down selection of all optional tasks in Task List of Configurable material is shown through definition of Object dependencies and selection conditions.

3. There a couple of errors deliberately created while defining the dependencies to show how error handling is done

4. Demo covered  Selection conditions with

• 1-1 mapping between Characteristic value and task (Most of the characteristic values and corresponding operations)

• many-1 mapping between Characteristic values and operation (for 3 values of Engine type same operation is picked)

• Reuse of Selection conditions (Selection condition of Assemble Manual Gear is reused by selection condition defined for selection of BOM Component 4 Gear Manual)

• All key features in selection condition editor such as syntax checks, input help, loading conditions from external sources are explained.

In this demo, you will see

1. Definition of dependency of type Precondition at characteristic level

2. Usage of

   1. Object variable $Root,

   2. Logical operator NOT

   3. Special expression IN etc

   
   

In this demo, you can set a precondition to enable a Characteristic value based on attributes of top most configurable Material in the multi-level structure.

In this demo you will run through:

1. Definition of dependency of type precondition at Characteristic value level

2. Usage of

   1. Object variable $Root

   2. Built-in Function TYPE_OF

In the demo, you will assign a defined value (with no provision to change the values in value assignment screen) to a characteristic based on the value(s) of other characteristics.

In the next part of this same demo, you will assign a default value to characteristic based on value(s) of other characteristics. These defaulted values can be overwritten during the value assignment.

This lesson explains the process to setup and execute purchase of Configurable Materials. You will run through entire setup process followed by Configuration of Configurable Materials in Purchase order, with pricing calculations included.

After a brief recap of Make to Order scenarios for configurable Materials, Make to stock version is introduced with a couple of examples. A brief overview of setup required for Make to Stock is also presented.

Creation of Material variants derived from Configurable Material.

Create a good number of Material variants so the demo of matching with Complete and Partial Configurations can be done.

In this lesson, the brief setup for Variant Matching is shown in Configuration Profile screen,

It is followed by the DEMO on Variant Matching with options of Variant Matching on Request and Matching to Complete Configuration

Permanent matching with scenarios having strategies of matching to Partial and Complete configuration.

In this lesson, you will run through selection of characteristic values for configurable material in Sales orders with multiple settings of Variant matching in place.

Apart from Complete and Partial configuration matching in Sales orders, You will also see matching to multiple Material variants as one scenario.