Overview: Engineer to Order Production with Variant Configuration (4R8)

The scenario enables the Order BOM processing type. You use this processing type if you want to make customer-specific changes to the BOM of a material that you configure in the sales order. The process supports a handover between sales order creation, order BOM preparation, and acceptance of those changes within the sales order.
Benefits
Reduce order management cost by efficient, comprehensive support for fulfilling customers' special requirements, when using configurable products
Key Process Steps Covered
Sales Order
- Create sales order
- Configure sales order item line (multilevel)
- Switch to engineer-to-order process
Hand over to engineering
Order BOM handling
- Create order BOMs
- Configure sales order item line (multilevel)
- Hand over to sales again
Sales Order
Accept or reject changes of engineering