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Variant Configuration ( VC ) In Assembly Processing of Network / Project
This Blog will cover how Variant Configuration will integrate with Assembly Processing of Network/Project with necessary steps.
Business Requirement:
- One Material has different Characteristics to Sell and depend upon the characteristics of Material; Operative Network Activity Should be selected.
- The created Operative Network Creation will help for evaluation purpose by Scheduling, cost, Milestone etc. Assignment as well for user time saving / avoiding mistake.
Constrained:
- As per SAP Standard behavior; assignment of one material to multiple standard networks is not possible in CN08.
Solution :
To achieve this ; Variant Configuration for Network is the Only Way.
In PS; Only Network is Configurable Object.
Prerequisites
- Characteristics for Material / Standard Network
- Class for Material /Standard Network
- Characteristics Assignment in Class for Material / Standard Network
- Standard Network Creation
- Configurable Material Creation
- Configuration Profile for Material and Standard Network
- Object Dependency ( Global / Local ) Creation
- Characteristics for Material / Standard Network – CT04
Characteristics Like; Type Of Material, Category of Material, Special Procurement.
- We can create number of Characteristics as per business need.
- Class for Material /Standard Network – CL01
3. Characteristics Assignment in Class for Material / Standard Network – CL02
4. Master/Standard Network Creation – CN01
5. Configurable Material Creation – MM01/MM02
6.Configuration Profile for Material – CU41
- Object Dependency ( Global / Local ) Creation
Will be creating Local Dependency in CN02.
- Note: Local dependencies are created for one object ( In this case its Network – XXXXX ) and can only be used with this object.
- Means; Activity – A3 will be assigning if all above condition / characteristics are matched.
In Requirement class; Configuration Mandatory must need to enable.
All required setting must be in place for Assembly Processing.
Demo:
- Create the Sales Order
2. Assign require characteristics to material
3. check the created network
- Characteristics from Material is transferred to Network, as below image.
- Check the Operative Network Activity as below ;
Please, let me know if anyone have doubt or I missed something.
Your suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks,
Akash Khandelwal
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