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

Create a configurable material (MM01): xx_conf_mat

Create a configuration profile (CU41): xx_conf_mat

Create a material variant and configure it (MM01): xx_mat_var

Integration of configurable materials and variants

Check data in APO (/SAPAPO/MAT1)

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Related Documents

Related SAP Notes/KBAs

Example Creation
Create a configurable material (MM01): xx_conf_mat
1.

Execute transaction MM01

2.

Enter a name for the material

3.

Select industry sector: M (mechanical engineering)

4.

Select material type: e.g. HALB (Semi finished Products)

5.

Press Select View(s) button

6.

Select Views Basic Data 1, Basic Data 2, Classification, MRP1, MRP2, MRP3, MRP4

7.

Press enter

8.

Specify the Plant and press enter

9.

Enter a material description

10.

Define the Base Unit of Measure

11.

Press Enter (you will be sent to Basic Data 2 tab)

12.

At the bottom of Basic Data 2, set flag Material is Configurable

13.

Press enter

14.

If a warning message appears, confirm it by pressing enter. (you will be sent to

Classification tab)

15.

Assign to the Material a class that has Class Type 300 (Variants)

16.

Press F8 (you will be sent to MRP1 tab)

17.

Enter MRP Type 'X0'

18.

Enter an MRP Controller

19.

Enter a Lot-Size Procedure

20.

Press Enter (you will be sent to MRP2 tab)

21.

Enter a number of In-House Production days

22.

Set Sched Margin Key 000

23.

Press enter (you will be sent to MRP3 tab)

24.

On MRP3 tab, set field Availability Check to KP

25.

Press enter (you will be sent to MRP4 tab)

26.

Press enter again and save the material

Create a configuration profile (CU41): xx_conf_mat

1.

Execute transaction CU41

2.

Select Material as Configurable Object and confirm the popup

3.

Enter the Material Name of your Configurable Material and press enter

4.

Enter Profile Priority (01 in the example)

5.

Enter a Profile Name

6.

Enter Class Type 300

7.

Press enter

8.

Save

Create a material variant and configure it (MM01): xx_mat_var

1.

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

a.

Do not set the flag "Configurable Material" in Basic Data 2

2.

Determine if you want to configure the variant cross-plant or at plant level

a.
i.

For Plant-Specific Configuration,

Go to tab MRP3 and specify the Configurable Material. Then, click on
Configure Variant button

ii.

Specify valuations for the characteristics

iii.

Press F8

iv.

You will be back at MRP3 tab. Check that Variant flag has now been set

b.

For Cross-Plant configuration, go to tab Basic Data 2 and execute the same steps
there

Integration of configurable materials and variants

The integration of configurable materials and variants works as integrating normal

materials. But you have to keep in mind that the classification data have to be in the APO system
as well.

It is recommended to integrate the classification data (classes and characteristics) in a

separate model. So you should integrate these data first before sending the configurable materials
and variants.

Check data in APO (/SAPAPO/MAT1)

1.

Execute transaction /SAPAPO/MAT1

2.

Enter the name of the Product Variant and the Location

3.

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