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

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Identify SAP Fiori applications for set up configurable bill of material using variant configuration

SAP Fiori Apps for Set up Configurable Bill of Material usingVariant Configuration

Associated SAP Fiori Applications

  • Change Routing (CA02)

  • Manage Characteristics (CT04)

  • Manage Classes (CL02)

  • Manage Product Master Data (F1602)

  • VC Modeling Environment (PMEVC)

  • Maintain Bill of Material (F1813)

  • Simulate Configuration Models (F2570)

Change Routing (CA02)

This app comes as Belize theme on SAP GUI transaction for CA02. To use the app, you must have access to the t-code CA02 in the backend system.

Manage Characteristics (CT04)

This app comes as Belize theme on SAP GUI transaction for CT04. To use the app, you must have access to the t-code CT04 in the backend system.

Manage Classes (CL02)

This app comes as Belize theme on SAP GUI transaction for CL02. To use the app, you must have access to the t-code CL02 in the backend system.

Manage Product Master Data (F1602)

You can use the Manage Product Master Data app (Fiori ID: F1602) to search, display, edit, create, and copy master data for products effectively and quickly. It ensures that the master data displayed is always consistent. In addition, you can also use this app to mark a product for deletion.

Key Features

  • 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.

App Extensibility

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:

UI ElementBusiness Context

Product Basic Data

Product Procurement

Product Sales

Product Storage

Product Shelf Life Advance Planning

Product Quality Management

Product Master General: You can use this business context to extend a product’s basic data, product sales data, storage details, and procurement details, based on your requirements.

Product Master Unit of Measure

Product Master Dimensions: You can extend the distribution chain data of the product to meet your requirements using this business context.

Product Master Distribution Chains

Product Master Distribution Chains

Product Valuation

Valuation ML Account

Product Master Valuation

Storage Location

Product Storage Location: You can extend the storage location data of the product to meet your requirements using the business context.

Product Master Plant

Product Master Plant Supply Planning

Product Master Plant Procurement

Product Master Plant Quality Mgmt

Product Master Plant Sales

Product Master Plant Storage

Product Master Plant Work Scheduling

Product Master Plant Advance Planning

Product Master Plant: You can extend the plant data of the product to meet your requirements using the business context.

VC Modeling Environment (PMEVC)

This app comes as Belize theme on SAP GUI transaction for PMEVC. To use the app, you must have access to the t-code PMEVC in the backend system.

Maintain Bill of Material App (F1813)

With this app you can find, display and change bill of materials (BOM).

Key Features

  • 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.

App Extensibility

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:

UI ElementBusiness Context
Header levelBill of Material
Item levelBill of Material Items

Simulate Configuration Models (F2570)

You can use the SAP Fiori-based Simulate Configuration Models app to search for configurable products and configured objects and start a configuration simulation with them. Additionally, you can also search for and open a previously created and saved simulation. You can use the simulation to test and analyze your configuration model by configuring your object using the integrated characteristic value assignment screen and check whether your dependencies work. The app supports simulation for single-level and multi-level configurations.

Key Features

  • 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.

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