1) SAP Variant Configuration Overview

• Purpose
• Features
• Integration
• Business Process Integration
• Quotation
• Sales Order
• Planning Strategies
• Requirements Classes
• Schedule Line Categories
• Item Categories
• Pricing and Costing
• Configure-to-Order
• Production Order
• Terms

2) SAP Variant Configuration Demonstration and Exercise

• Display Material Master - Configurable Material
• Display Bill of Material
• Display Routing
• Display Configuration Profile
• Display Interface Design
• Create Quotation for Configurable Item
• Copy Quotation to Create Sales Order for Configurable Item
• Display Variant Pricing Conditions
• Course Objectives
• Course Concepts

3) Variant Configuration Classification Classes

• Display and Discuss a Sample Class
• Demonstration: Create a Class
• Exercise: Create a Class
• Characteristics
• Display and Discuss a Sample Characteristic
• Demonstration: Create a Characteristic
• Exercise: Create a Characteristic
• Assignment of Characteristics to Classes
• Demonstration: Assign Characteristics to Class
• Exercise: Assign Characteristics to Class

4) Variant Configuration Master Data

• Material Master
• Demonstration: Display Material Master - Configurable
• Material
• Demonstration: Create a Configurable Material Master
• Exercise: Create a Configurable Material Master
• Super Bill of Material
• Demonstration: Display Super Bill of Material
• Demonstration: Create a Super Bill of Material
• Exercise: Create a Super Bill of Material
• Super Routing
• Demonstration: Display Super Routing
• Demonstration: Create a Super Routing
• Exercise: Create a Super Routing

5) Variant Configuration - Configuration Profiles and

• Interface Design Features
• Configuration Scenarios
• Demonstration: Display Configuration Profile
• Organizational Area
• Configuration Parameters
• Demonstration: Display Interface Design
• Interface Design: Configuration Structure, Allowed Screens,Start Screen
• Demonstration: Create Configuration Profile
• Exercise: Create Configuration Profile
• Review Questions

6) Variant Configuration - Object Dependencies

• Use of Dependencies
• Dependency Types
• Preconditions
• Selection Conditions
• Procedures
• Constraints
• Processing Sequence of Dependencies
• Demonstration: Create Dependencies
• Demonstration: Precondition
• Demonstration: Selection Condition
• Demonstration: Procedure
• Demonstration: Configuration Simulation
• Exercise: Create Dependencies
• Review Questions
• Answers to Review Questions

7) Variant Configuration - Dependency Syntax

• General Rules
• Operators, Arithmetical Expressions, and Functions
• Include/Intervals using
• Built in Condition IN
• Built in Condition SPECIFIED
• Built in Condition TYPE_OF
• Review Questions
• Answers to Review Questions

8) Variant Configuration - Variant Tables

• Overview of Variant Tables
• Tables in Actions and Procedures
• Tables in Constraints
• Tables in Preconditions
• Tables in Selection Conditions
• Demonstration: Display Variant Table Structure and Values
• Display a Variant Table
• Display the contents of a Variant Table
• Display the where-used function of a Variant Table
• Display a dependency using a Variant Table
• Demonstrate Variant Table in use
• Value Assignment Alternatives
• Demonstration: Using Variant Tables
• Create a Variant Table
• Maintain the contents of a Variant Table
• Create a dependency using a Variant Table
• Assign the dependency to a Configuration Profile
• Demonstrate Variant Table in use
• Exercise: Using Variant Tables

9) Variant Configuration - User Defined Functions and Functions

• Use of User Defined Functions
• Demonstration: Display User Defined Function
• Trace Function
• Demonstration: Trace Function
• Exercise: Trace Function

10) Variant Configuration - Object Dependencies in BOMS and Task Lists

• Selection Condition for BOM
• Demonstration: Selection Condition for BOM Component
• Exercise: Selection Condition for BOM Component
• Selection Condition for Task List
• Demonstration: Selection Condition for Task List
• Exercise: Selection Condition for Task List
• Class Nodes in BOM
• Demonstration: Class Nodes in BOM
• Exercise: Class Nodes in BOM

11) Variant Configuration - Dependencies for Value Assignment

• Procedure for a Characteristic Value
• Demonstration: Procedure for Setting Characteristic Value
• Exercise: Procedure for Setting Characteristic Value
• Procedure for Setting a Default
• Demonstration: Procedure for Setting a Default
• Exercise: Procedure for Setting a Default