The following figure explains the planning with planning variants and necessary strategy 54.
Process Overview
Strategy 54 is a strategy with planning material.
Both the configurable finished product and the special variants – the planning variants – receive strategy 54.
Planned independent requirements are created for the planning versions. It leads to dependent requirements for the assemblies of the finished product. The BOMs for the configurable finished product are exploded according to the valuation in the material master of the planning variants.
The assemblies can be preproduced.
The planned independent requirements of the planning variants are consumed by sales orders for the finished product under the similarity determination.
Process Flow
- Both the configurable material and the planning variants have strategy 54. The planning variants are maintained similarly to the material variants. In the MRP views, the link to the configurable material is established, and the valuation of the characteristics is carried out.
- A logic is required for the subsequent consumption of sales orders for the configurable material against the planned independent requirements of the planning variants. This is maintained by the type matching tools.
- Create planned independent requirements for the planning variants.
- In MRP, dependent requirements are generated for the assemblies of the configurable material.
- Based on this, these can be prefabricated.
- The sales order now received for the finished product would satisfy the dependent requirements from the stocks at assembly level.
- The requirement at configurable material level is consumed by a planned independent requirement of a planning variant. The corresponding planning variant is determined according to the type matching.
Type Matching
The following video explains the scenario of Type Matching.