CAPÍTULO 1 ETAPA INVESTIGATIVA
1.2. Realidad problemática
Configuration Profiles
Unit Overview
This unit explains various configuration profiles using scenarios. It also explains how to create and name configuration profiles.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, you will be able to:
• Create configuration profiles and define essential control parameters • Name the possible configuration scenarios
Unit Contents
Lesson: Configuration Scenarios ...104 Exercise 7: Creating and Testing a Configuration Profile ... 113
Lesson: Configuration Scenarios
Lesson Overview
This lesson describes how to create configuration profiles and define essential control parameters. It also explains various configuration scenarios.
Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Create configuration profiles and define essential control parameters • Name the possible configuration scenarios
Business Example
ABC Motors is an automobile manufacturing company. It manufactures various models of cars. The company is implementing variant
configuration solution of SAP R/3 Enterprise to maintain end-product variants. You are the Product Manager of the company. Your team now wants to gain an overview of the different scenarios for variant configuration that are available in SAP R/3 Enterprise.
You define essential settings for materials in the configuration profile. The settings you can make for other configurable object types are more restricted.
You select a class type.
You can define settings that affect configuration. You define these settings for each object, and they apply to the object wherever it is used. However, you can overwrite these settings for your user in the configuration editor. You can specify an interface design for grouping characteristics together on the value assignment screen.
You can assign dependencies to a configurable object in the configuration profile. Dependency nets can only be assigned to a configuration profile. If you assign actions and procedures to the configuration profile, you can manage them more easily because they are all in one place.
For materials, you must also maintain configuration parameters for BOM explosion. Depending on the configuration parameters you set, other fields in the configuration profile are hidden or shown.
The configurable material must be assigned to at least one variant class. This link is usually only a material-to-class assignment, without assigned values. Assigning values would restrict the allowed values.
You have the following options for assigning a material to a class: • Master data maintenance (material master)
• The classification menu (maintain assignment) • The configuration profile (class assignment)
Production Order
Figure 39: Scenario: Planned/Production Order Without BOM Explosion
Only the header material is configured interactively in the sales order. The result is one order item in the sales order.
The BOM is only simulated in the configuration simulation - it is not exploded in the sales order.
All components, variable and non-variable parts, are determined automatically during the MRP run.
Process Flow
Create a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item. You see the configuration editor, where you assign values to the
characteristics of the material. As you enter characteristic values, dependencies for the characteristics and values are processed.
Order BOM
Figure 40: Scenario: Order BOM - Overview
Purpose - You use this processing option if you want to make
customer-specific changes to the BOM of a material that you configure in the sales order. In the sales order, you assign values to the characteristics of the material, but the BOM is not exploded. The BOM components that match these values are not determined until you process the order BOM. Subordinate configurable materials can be configured in the order BOM processing function, and you can make order-specific changes to the BOM. If you change the characteristic values assigned to the material in transaction VA01 or CU51, this might affect the order BOM.
Prerequisites - The configuration profile of the configurable material specifies the “order BOM“ process with single-level or multilevel BOM explosion.
Figure 41: Scenario: Order BOM - Step 1
Create a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item. You see the configuration editor, where you assign values to the
characteristics of the material.
As you enter characteristic values, dependencies for the characteristics and values are processed.
The BOM is not exploded in the sales order.
You cannot assign values to subordinate configurable materials in the sales order.
The header material appears as a sales order item. You can also create an order BOM for a quotation.
Figure 42: Scenario: Order BOM - Step 2
Procedure - After you have created and saved the sales order, you use a special transaction to process the order BOM. This transaction explodes the entire structure of the order BOM. You can configure subordinate configurable assemblies.
The technical review determines which assemblies need to be changed and which new assemblies are required.
You can make the following changes to an order BOM: change BOM items, for example, quantity, insert items, delete items, copy items, cut items, and replace class items manually.
Result-oriented order BOM If you set this indicator, the configured order BOM is saved with all manual changes.
If you do not set this indicator, the super BOM is saved with all manual changes and object dependencies (selection conditions and procedures). When you call the BOM, the selection conditions are processed
automatically and only the selected items are displayed.
Automatic fixing If this indicator is set, you can use the maintenance function to save an order BOM, even if no changes are made to the BOM. If this indicator is not set, an order BOM is only created if you make manual changes to the BOM.
Sales Order
Figure 43: Scenario: Order BOM + Maintenance Allowed in Sales Order
The Maintenance in order allowed indicator allows you to go to the engineering view without leaving sales order maintenance. In the sales order, you see a button labeled “Engineering“. This means that the assigned values are temporarily fixed. The BOM can be exploded.
You can do a multilevel configuration.
You cannot maintain an order BOM in the sales order.
From here, you can go back to the “Sales“ view at any time to change the values assigned to the header material.
In technical postprocessing (CU51), exactly the same function is available. This means that:
Figure 44: Scenario: Sales Order (SET Processing) 1
Purpose - You can use this processing type to describe variant products that comprise several salable configurable materials. These products are supplied together, but are not assembled using a production order.
For example, a PC is made up of the components monitor, CPU, keyboard, and printer. These components are all salable materials that can be manufactured and sold separately. In the sales order, you want to see order items for the individual components that make up the computer, as well as the whole computer. In sales order processing, these products are grouped together in a SET. For this reason, this type of processing is also referred to as SET processing.
Process Flow - Create a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item. You see the configuration editor, where you assign values to the characteristics of the material. You can then display the result of the BOM explosion by choosing Result. You see all the sales-relevant BOM components that are selected according to the values assigned.
Figure 45: Scenario: Sales Order (SET Processing) 2
This scenario means that in the sales order you can only process sales-relevant BOM items.
You can also configure the configurable assemblies that are sales relevant. You can use constraints to infer characteristic values between assemblies. After you have configured all materials, you return to the order item entry screen.
All BOM items that were selected and are relevant to sales are displayed as subitems for the main item in the sales order.
You can use the item category group to control requirements transfer and pricing at component level.
Exercise 7: Creating and Testing a
Configuration Profile
Exercise Objectives
After completing this exercise, you will be able to:
• Create a configuration profile with all the necessary settings for your PC
• Simulate the configuration with the data you have created so far
Business Example
AA Computers is a PC manufacturing company. It manufactures various models of PCs. The company has decided to use SAP R/3 Enterprise to optimize its storage inventories and maintain every possible end-product variant. You are the Product Manager of the company. In the model for the PC configuration task, you need to create the configuration profile. This will make it possible to configure the PC on one level without the option of making manual changes.
Task 1:
Create a configuration profile for your PC T-VPC## with the name PROFILE_PF0.
1. Check whether the assignment to the variant class exists and create if it does not exist.
2. Maintain the detail settings for your profile. Include the following information:
Confign parameters
Profile name PROFILE_PF0
Class Type 300
Class Assignment T_VPC##
BOM Explosion None
Process Planned/production order
Interface design TVPC##
Task 2:
Check the result of what you have done so far in the configuration simulation.
1. Simulate the configuration of your PC T-VPC## in plant 1200. Configuration: Sales/distribution. First select the BOM as the configuration result.
2. Display the Characteristic Value Assignment screen.
Why do the values for characteristic Extras appear on the screen, but not the values for the other characteristics?
3. Do not assign any characteristic values and choose: Result.
What happens? Why?
4. Assign values to all characteristics and choose: Result or Planned order.
If prompted, select BOM application: PP01
What happens now? What do you notice about the result? Why? 5. Display the BOM master data (super BOM).
6. From the result overview of the BOM, display the exploded task list (routing) of the PC.
7. (Optional)
Call configuration simulation again - this time with configuration result task list.
Assign values to all characteristics and look at the result. Display the routing master data (super task list).
Solution 7: Creating and Testing a
Configuration Profile
Task 1:
Create a configuration profile for your PC T-VPC## with the name PROFILE_PF0.
1. Check whether the assignment to the variant class exists and create if it does not exist.
a) Create a configuration profile for your PC, T-VPC##:
CU41 = SAP Menu→Logistics→Central Functions→Variant Configuration→Configuration Profile→Create
or
User Menu→Variant Configuration→Configuration Profile
→Create
=> Select configurable object
→Here: Select Material and choose Enter Material:T-VPC## ( Enter
Prof. name:PROFILE_PF0 Class Type:300
→Profile detail= Shift + F7
Check whether the assignment to the variant class exists and create if it does not exist. →Class Assignment
2. Maintain the detail settings for your profile. Include the following information:
Confign parameters
Profile name PROFILE_PF0
Class Type 300
Class Assignment T_VPC##
BOM Explosion None
Process Planned/production order
Interface design TVPC##
a) Basic data: Do not change Confign initial screen: Confign parameters: Process: Plnd/Prod. Order BOM Explosion: None
(Do not change anything else) Userinterf:
Interface design:TVPC## (Do not change anything else)
Task 2:
Check the result of what you have done so far in the configuration simulation.
1. Simulate the configuration of your PC T-VPC## in plant 1200. Configuration: Sales/distribution. First select the BOM as the configuration result.
a) Check the result of what you have done so far in the configuration simulation.
CU50 =
SAP Menu→ Logistics→ Central Functions→Variant Configuration→Environment→Configuration Simulation or
User Menu→Variant Configuration→Environment → Configuration Simulation
Why do the values for characteristic Extras appear on the screen, but not the values for the other characteristics?
a) Display the Characteristic Value Assignment screen = F8.
The characteristic’s interface control is defined to automatically display the allowed values on the characteristic value
assignment screen.
3. Do not assign any characteristic values and choose: Result.
What happens? Why?
a) Do not assign any characteristic values and choose: Result What happens?
You see the following error message: No value was assigned to “CPU of PC“.
Why?
If characteristics are defined as “Required“, values must be assigned.
4. Assign values to all characteristics and choose: Result or Planned order.
If prompted, select BOM application: PP01
What happens now? What do you notice about the result? Why? a) Then assign values to all characteristics and choose:
Result = Ctrl + F9 or
Planned order = Ctrl + Shift + F5 (BOM application: PP01)
What happens now? What do you notice about the result? No components were restricted.
Why?
Object dependencies are required to select components. 5. Display the BOM master data (super BOM).
a) Display the BOM master data (super BOM).
6. From the result overview of the BOM, display the exploded task list (routing) of the PC.
a) From the result overview of the BOM, display the exploded task list (routing) of the PC.
7. (Optional)
Call configuration simulation again - this time with configuration result task list.
Assign values to all characteristics and look at the result. Display the routing master data (super task list).
a) (Optional) Call the configuration simulation again - this time with the configuration result task list.
Assign values to all characteristics here, too, and display the result.
Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
• Create configuration profiles and define essential control parameters • Name the possible configuration scenarios
Unit Summary
You should now be able to:
• Create configuration profiles and define essential control parameters • Name the possible configuration scenarios
Test Your Knowledge
1. All components, variable and non-variable parts, are determined
automatically during the .
Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence.
2. The of the configurable
material specifies the “order BOM“ process with single-level or multilevel BOM explosion.
Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence.
3. Which of the following statement are true for the indicators in BOM? Choose the correct answer(s).
□ A If you set the “Result-oriented order BOM“ indicator, the configured order BOM is saved with all the manual changes rejected.
□ B If you do not set the “Result-oriented order BOM“ indicator, the super BOM is saved with all manual changes and object dependencies (selection conditions and procedures).
□ C If the “Automatic fixing“ indicator is set, you can use the maintenance function to save an order BOM, even if no changes are made to the BOM.
□ D If the “Automatic fixing“ indicator is not set, an order BOM cannot be created at all.
Answers
1. All components, variable and non-variable parts, are determined automatically during the MRP run.
Answer: MRP run
2. The configuration profile of the configurable material specifies the “order BOM“ process with single-level or multilevel BOM explosion. Answer: configuration profile
3. Which of the following statement are true for the indicators in BOM?
Answer: B, C
If you set the “Result-oriented order BOM“ indicator, the configured order BOM is saved with all the manual changes. In addition, if the “Automatic fixing“ indicator is not set, an order BOM can be created by making manual changes to the BOM.