Understanding Process Steps and Business Roles 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:

  • Define process steps for set up configurable bill of material using variant configuration
  • Identify business roles for set up configurable bill of material using variant configuration

Process Steps for Set up Configurable Bill of Material usingVariant Configuration

Applicable Process Steps

  • Create characteristics for class (to be used for variant configuration)

  • Create class (to be used for variant configuration)

  • Assign class to product

  • Create variant table

  • Maintain variant table content

  • Create configuration profile

  • Create and assign grouping

  • Create constraint net

  • Create and assign high-level dependencies

  • Create super BOM

  • Add stock item

  • Add class node item

  • Add low level dependencies

  • Simulate configurable BOM

  • 2G4: Requirements driven development

  • Create and assign high-level dependencies

  • Perform Simulation and root cause check

Business Roles for Set up Configurable Bill of Material usingVariant Configuration

Relevant Business Roles

To run this business process you need the following roles:

  • Product Configuration Modeler

  • Master Data Specialist – Product Data

  • Production Engineer – Discrete Manufacturing

How to Identify the Business Catalog(s) mapped to a Business Role and the Fiori application(s) mapped to a Business Catalog

  1. Log into the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.

  2. Select the Manage Business Roles application from the Launchpad.

  3. Select a Business Role.

  4. Select the Assigned Business Catalogs tab to view the standard Business Catalogs assigned to the standard Business Role.

  5. Select a Business Catalog.

  6. Select the Catalog Description tab to view the Functional Description, Authorization Criteria, and Associated Catalogs information.

  7. Select the Applications tab to view the Fiori apps mapped to the Business Catalog.

Note

To customize Business Roles, use the option Create From Template in the Maintain Business Roles application to create a copy of an SAP Standard Business Role for editing.

Caution

Do not edit SAP Standard Business Roles directly.

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