Goals

  • The configuration scenarios for modeling configurable products in SAP ERP.
  • Additional functions of the configuration profile, dependencies, and other variant configuration tools.

Audience

  • Project members and other employees responsible for setting up, maintaining, and processing configurable products

Prerequisites

Essential

  • PLM145 (Variant Configuration Part1: Modeling and Integration)
  • Knowledge of processes in sales and distribution, planning, and production

Recommended

  • PLM100 (Life-Cycle Data Management)

Course based on software release

  • SAP ERP Central Component 6.0

Content

  • Control parameters in the configuration profile in detail
  • Additional information on constraints, variant tables, variant functions, and characteristic selection
  • Configuration scenario:
    • planned/production order without and with BOM explosion,
    • sales order (SET processing) and
    • order BOMs
  • Preplanning and Variant Configuration
  • Overview of IPPE
  • Integrations of Variant Configuration
  • Tips on system performance
  • Other tools (API, ALE, user exits, analysis tool, data storage, comparison with IPC)