Exploring SAP Fiori Applications for Set up Configurable Bill of Material using Variant Configuration

• Create product master data records.

• Copy product master data records.

• Display master data records.

• Edit or change product master data records.

• Mark product master data records for deletion.

You can extend the Manage Product Master Data app according to your business needs.

Key users can extend the app in the Custom Fields and Logic app using the following business contexts:

• Product Master General

• Product Master Dimensions

• Product Master Distribution Chains

• Product Master Plant

• Product Master Valuation

• Product Storage Location

They enable usage of their extension fields for the app in the UIs and Reports section of the extension field maintenance and publish their custom fields.

Key users can add fields to the following UI elements:

• You can create and search for a BOM, a versioned BOM, and an alternative BOM efficiently by making entries in the key fields. You can also customize the search criteria for the advanced search.

• You can also search and maintain BOMs for configurable materials.

• While working on a BOM, you can take tentative decisions and save your changes as a draft.

• You can navigate to change instances using the change timeline.

• From the overview page, you can create a change number and assign it to a material.

• You can use the Attachment Service to attach documents or files to a material.

• You can copy and hand over the engineering bills of material (EBOM) to the manufacturing bills of material (MBOM). This establishes links between EBOM and MBOM.

• For a configurable BOM, you can maintain object dependencies using the classic application.

• You can create a BOM with validity changes for objects based on the parameter effectivity types.

You can extend the Maintain Bill of Material App app according to your business needs.

Key users can extend the app in the Custom Fields and Logic app using the following business contexts:

• Bill of Material

• Bill of Material Items

Key users can add fields to the following UI elements:

• Start a new simulation by manually entering the configurable product and its necessary input parameters (Plant, Configuration Date, Quantity, BOM Application).

• Search and list existing objects (configurable products, configured objects, saved simulations) and start a new simulation by clicking an item in the search results. You can narrow your search based on the following attributes:

  • Type (Product, Sales Order Item, Product Variant, Simulation, Quotation Item)

  • Product

  • Plant

  • Created By

  • Created On

  • Status

  • Show Favorites Only

  • Last Changed By

• Activate the trace of the configuration process before starting a new simulation by selecting Activate Trace. The trace messages are displayed during the simulation process.

• Display the Exploded BOM and Super BOM of your object

• Configure your currently opened simulation using the characteristic value assignment screen.

• Edit the simulation parameters during simulation (Plant, Configuration Date, Quantity, BOM Application).

• Display the Properties and Object Dependencies (along with the dependency code) of a selected BOM item, characteristic, characteristic value or configuration profile in the Inspector view. You can also see the selectable and not selectable list of values in the case of characteristics.

• See the following additional features related to the routing structure:

  • Display the complete routing structure (standard sequence, parallel sequences, alternative sequences, operations).

  • Display the most important information about the routing sub-objects (standard sequence, parallel sequences, alternative sequences, operations, components).

  • Go into the alternative and parallel sequences and explore their operations.

  • Access the routing results in single-level and in multi-level cases as well.

  • See the effects of configuration changes in the routing, and how the routing changes given different simulation dates.

  • Display the list of object dependencies assigned to the different routing elements.

  • Display the list of components (configurable and non-configurable) assigned to an operation and the details of a selected component.

  • Check routings of non-configurable components.

  • Display the routing-relevant trace messages

  • Display the Super Routing of a component.