Level III Variant Configuration

1. Variant Configuration
Learn from the Expert - Real time SAP scenario’s
Level III Training

2. Variant Configuration is an engine that controls how the
customer specifies exactly what product & choices within that
product that they would like to buy…
When you configure & order your Laptop through web, you are
using VC! Now it is time to look at VC from the other side…
Variant Configuration is used for We’ll use the Characteristics to define the
manufacturing complex products. As features of a configurable material. Class
always, the customer is the king & type 300 helps us to enable the
determines the features of the product! characteristics to configure the material.
The manufacturer decides what features
can be offered. Let’s move to the next level of
complexity…All types of car engine cannot
The Product Configuration improves be combined with all types of transmission.
information exchange between sales, We’ll use Dependencies to prevent the
Engineering & Production. combinations of options that are not
allowed.
Without VC, a car manufacturer, for
example, may have to create hundreds of And the Reports the client will demand out
materials to cover the various options of SAP can be the most challenging. Let’s
offered. With VC, you create just one be prepared for that too.
Configurable Material to cover all the
Variants! We’ll cover all this & much more in our
“Variant Configuration – Real time
The magic is not over yet…You create just scenarios”.
one Super BOM and one Super Routing for
this material containing all the components
& operations for producing all the variants!!
It is guaranteed that you will be a Super
Consultant once you master VC!!!
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3. Meetings…meetings…Non stop meetings…Blueprint Phase is generally the
most important (& boring) part of the project!
If you do not do sufficient prototyping during this phase, you will be
talking in the air and the client can only hope that the implementation will
go on well…
Even worse, you might not be able to make the system work in the way,
you had believed it would, by (mis) understanding the SAP help
documentation!! And mid-way into the realization phase, you will be
forced to re-design your solution.
We will avoid this scenario, once and for all!
This training on “Real time Project Scenario’s for Variant Configuration”
will replicate a blue-print phase of a project. The Shoubii Consultants
will play the dual role of the client Business Manager as well as a
Solution Architect of a project.
The Business Manager will explain the actual business scenarios. Then we
will get into some discussion to understand the requirement. Finally the
Solution Architect will give a direction on how it has to be mapped in SAP.
As future SAP consultants, you are expected to design it and present it to
the team! Can you see your SAP Dreams come true, already?
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4. Babu, a SAP Certified SCM Consultant & a Supply
Chain Expert has over 15 years of experience in the
manufacturing Industries and implementing SAP
solutions for Manufacturing Industries in the area of
PP, PM and VC. Some of Babu’s projects are
Industrial Automation Client (USA)
This was one of the world’s largest Industrial Automation
Clients. Babu handled Variant Configuration for a set of
Product families in the project.
Glass Solutions Client (Europe)
This is one of the largest glass transforming & glass distributing
companies for the building sector in Europe. Babu took over as
the Team Lead and was involved in the Roll outs done
throughout Europe.
Mill Industrial Client (Europe & USA)
This is one of the Largest Integrated Aluminum suppliers in the
world. Babu took over as the consultant in Quality
Management & Plant Maintenance module and completed the
Roll Outs throughout Europe & USA.
Petroleum Industrial Client (Europe)
This client is the biggest offshore Oil & Gas Company in the
world. Babu provided consulting & support of ERP solutions in
Quality Management & Plant Maintenance.
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