Overview Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration (2XU)
Variant configuration is an important tool in the manufacturing process.
Improve your company's product Engineering, Sales, Procurement, and Manufacturing performance with SAP software for integrated variant configuration and classification.
Enable your business process to handle highly individualized products in sales, Procurement and Manufacturing.
This scope item describes the process of externally procuring materials using the Advanced Variant Configuration feature, required in the manufacturing process.
Benefits
- Improve your company's manufacturing and procurement performance with integrated Advanced Variant Configuration covering single-level as well as multi-level configurable materials.
- Enable your business processes to handle highly individualized products in manufacturing and Procurement.
- Leverage the sophisticated algorithms in the performance-optimized rules engine within a state-of-the-art configurator.
- Use dependencies to prevent combinations of options that are not allowed and can be used to select exactly the right components Set pricing according to the configuration.
Key Process Steps Covered
Create a customer sales order (optionally based on a sales quotation) for a product configured per customer requirement .
Identify and create a purchase order for required configurable material for the supplier.
Post goods receipt and invoice for payment to supplier.
Process delivery and billing to customer.