How to play with the purchase of SAP variant materials? Look at this article and you will understand

SAP How to play with the purchase of variable materials ？ Look at this one and you'll see ！

The author has the opportunity and the honor to work on the project of an auto parts company , The company used to produce “ tire ”. Sales in any industry 、 There are variations in both purchase and production businesses , It depends heavily on the characteristics and variants of materials （ variant / variant ）, Inevitably, it must be implemented “ Variant configuration ”（VC）.

Although the company does not use VC, But in the author's view SAP When the system is audited , The author observed that , When 100 When different material codes are enabled for different production variants , How boring the business has become . The purpose of this article is to explain in the procurement process , How to use SAP Variant conditions of the system （Variant Condition） function , To realize the effect of automatically calculating the surcharge or discount value according to the product characteristics .

The author thinks , Variant configuration is not a solution for customers in specific industries , Can be used anywhere （ for example , On order “Pizza” when ）.

Here is a business scenario ： According to Pizza Under the type Pizza Order , Then the supplier charges some surcharges according to the user's choice （ Extra cost ）.

The test system ：S/4 HANA 1709

Example ： Product pizza , It has 6 There are two different characteristics （ Pizza type ）, Surcharge calculation .

SAP VC Heavily dependent on classes 、 Characteristics and object dependencies to calculate values . under these circumstances , The author will use “Procedure”, Because the author needs to calculate the surcharge continuously , These surcharges are determined by the eigenvalue . Only “Procedure” This dependency type can provide the derivation function of the feature , At this time there is 2 Options to choose from ： Coverage and continuous computing .

Dependency type “Procedure” It is mainly used for BOM Row item 、 Task list and configuration parameter file . Later in this article , The author will explain how to use the configuration parameter file .

1, Create a feature , To express different Pizza Types.

2, Use MMCOM Fields in the table VKOND, Use the reference feature to create another feature .

notes ： Reference feature refers to the feature of a table field .

In this case , According to table MMCOM Field VKOND Corresponding Pizza type （Pizza Characteristics and their values ） To calculate the purchase Pizza The surcharge on .

MMCOM-VKOND, As shown in the figure below ：

Create features and assign reference features .

3, Create a material , Make sure that it is marked as a configurable material in the material master , And assign a Class. Use transaction code CU41 Create a configuration parameter file , Then assign Class And use dependency types procedure Write dependent code .

Use $self-> Write dependent code , And check whether the grammar is correct .

4, Create a purchase information record for this material , As shown below . The condition type VA00 For variant function （ Based on quantity / value ）.

Maintain based on pizza type The surcharge on . As shown in the figure below ：

Why? VA00 Condition types are used to maintain surcharges in purchase information records ？ You can see the configuration of this condition type .

5, Create a purchase order , We can see how the variant function works in purchasing .

choice pizza type, The system will automatically display the surcharge amount . For example, we choose 03 (Pepperoni), The system automatically gets a surcharge of 5 Yuan .

Check condition record , It can be found that the price of the purchase surcharge is based on Pizza Type Calculated according to the characteristics of .

If you will Pizza type Switch to 04（Meat）, be SAP The system will automatically calculate the new purchase surcharge .

SAP The system will automatically take out the new surcharge 8 Yuan , As shown in the figure below ：

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2021-9-22 Translation in residence .