Configuración de variantes con SAP
Este es su recurso completo para implementar, configurar y utilizar la configuración de variantes con SAP ERP 6.0 y CRM 2007. Aprenderá sobre los procesos empresariales y los problemas de integración, los detalles de la configuración en SAP CRM, las características especiales de las soluciones industriales y los retos seleccionados del uso de la configuración de variantes. Encontrará casos prácticos reales y ejemplos de clientes, para que pueda aprender lo que se debe y no se debe hacer en los proyectos de configuración de variantes en un entorno empresarial.
- Implementar y utilizar la configuración de variantes con SAP
- Crear y mantener un modelo de producto completo
- Obtenga información sobre las mejoras y los ejemplos específicos del sector
Aprenderás sobre:
- Configuración de variantes en ERP y CRM:
Comprenda cómo integrar procesos de configuración de variantes, como la gestión de calidad y el servicio al cliente, y explore los pasos de personalización necesarios.
- Temas de integración avanzada:
Encuentre una amplia cobertura de los procesos empresariales para SAP ERP, incluyendo el banco de trabajo de ingeniería de pedidos, la planificación de la configuración de variantes y mucho más.
- Soluciones específicas para cada sector:
Conozca las configuraciones y mejoras únicas que son posibles en sectores específicos y cómo gestionarlas, acompañadas de ejemplos de clientes y sugerencias prácticas.
- Conocimientos especializados:
Aproveche las notas de los autores y los clientes de SAP sobre los retos especiales que se plantean al implementar y utilizar la configuración de variantes para modelos de productos.
Aspectos Destacados:
- Perfil de configuración y escenarios
- Integración
- Personalización
- Configurador de variantes LO-VC
- Réplica de datos de productos (PDR)
- Solución industrial Informes DIMP
- Grupo de trabajo de configuración (CWG)
- SAP Business ByDesign
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Variant Configuration with SAP
This is your complete resource to implementing, setting up, and using variant configuration with SAP ERP 6.0 and CRM 2007. You’ll learn about the business processes and integration issues, details of configuration in SAP CRM, special features of industry solutions, and the selected challenges of using variant configuration. You’ll find real-world case studies and customer examples, so you can learn about the dos and don’ts of variant configuration projects in a business environment.
- Implement and use Variant Configuration with SAP
- Build and maintain a complete product model
- Get insight into industry-specific enhancements and examples
You'll learn about:
- Variant Configuration in ERP and CRM:
Understand how to integrate Variant Configuration processes such as quality management and customer service, and explore the necessary customizing steps.
- Advanced Integration Topics:
Find extensive coverage on business processes for SAP ERP, including the Order Engineering Workbench, planning Variant Configuration, and more.
- Industry-Specific Solutions:
Learn about the unique configurations and enhancements that are possible within specific industries and how to manage them, accompanied by customer examples and practical suggestions.
- Expert Knowledge:
Benefit from the authors' and SAP customers' notes on special challenges encountered when implementing and using Variant Configuration for product models.
Key Highlights:
- Configuration profile and scenarios
- Integration
- Customizing
- Variant Configurator LO-VC
- Product Data Replication (PDR)
- Industry solution DIMP reports
- Configuration Workgroup (CWG)
- SAP Business ByDesign
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Basic Principles of Variant Configuration
- 1.1 What Is Product Configuration?
- 1.1.1 Terminology
- 1.1.2 Elementary Configuration Modules
- 1.1.3 Product Configuration in Logistic Scenarios
- 1.1.4 Core Problem of Variant Diversity
- 1.1.5 Procedural and Declarative Approaches
- 1.2 What Is SAP Variant Configuration?
- 1.2.1 Product Configuration Using Variant Configuration (LO-VC)
- 1.2.2 Further Areas of Use
- 1.2.3 “Hello World” Example
- 1.2.4 Variant Configuration (LO-VC)
- 1.2.5 Internet Pricing and Configurator (IPC)
- 1.3 Enhancing Business Processes with Variant Configuration
- 1.3.1 Prerequisite for the Usage of Variant Configuration
- 1.3.2 Factors for the Usage of Variant Configuration
- 1.3.3 Exemplary Consideration on the Master Data Volume
- 1.4 Summary
- 2 Creating a Product Model for SAP Variant Configuration
- 2.1 Overview of the Modeling and Integration of Variant Configuration
- 2.1.1 Multivariant Product without Variant Configuration
- 2.1.2 Multivariant Product with Variant Configuration
- 2.2 Tools from the Classification System
- 2.2.1 Characteristic Management
- 2.2.2 Class Management
- 2.2.3 Classification
- 2.2.4 Search
- 2.3 Material Master, BOM, and Routing
- 2.3.1 Material Master of the Configurable Material
- 2.3.2 Super BOM of the Configurable Material
- 2.3.3 Super Task List for the Configurable Material
- 2.4 Configuration Profile and Configuration Scenarios
- 2.4.1 Overview of the Configuration Profile
- 2.4.2 Configuration Profile in Detail
- 2.4.3 Overview of Configuration Scenarios
- 2.4.4 Planned/Production Order without BOM Explosion Scenario
- 2.4.5 Order BOM Scenario
- 2.4.6 Sales Order (SET) Scenario
- 2.4.7 Planned/Production Order with BOM Explosion Scenario
- 2.5 Overview of Object Dependencies
- 2.5.1 Types of Object Dependencies and Assignment
- 2.5.2 The Procedural and Declarative Character of Object Dependencies
- 2.5.3 Global and Local Object Dependencies
- 2.5.4 Status of Object Dependencies
- 2.5.5 Object Dependencies in Classification and Variant Configuration
- 2.5.6 Execution Sequence of Object Dependencies
- 2.5.7 Basic Syntax Rules
- 2.5.8 Syntax Elements
- 2.5.9 Variant Tables and Functions
- 2.5.10 Evaluation Function for Object Dependencies
- 2.6 Object Dependencies for the Value Assignment Interface or the Sales View
- 2.6.1 Product Modeling Environment PMEVC
- 2.6.2 Example
- 2.6.3 Variant Tables in Detail
- 2.6.4 Constraints in Detail
- 2.6.5 Preconditions
- 2.6.6 Selection Conditions
- 2.6.7 Procedures
- 2.6.8 Reference Characteristics
- 2.6.9 Variant Functions
- 2.6.10 User Interface Design
- 2.7 Object Dependencies for BOM and Routing
- 2.7.1 Local and Global Object Dependencies
- 2.7.2 Selection Conditions for BOM and Routing
- 2.7.3 Class Nodes in BOMs
- 2.7.4 Classified Materials in BOMs
- 2.7.5 Procedures in BOM and Routing
- 2.8 Pricing for Configurable Materials
- 2.9 Product Costing for Configurable Materials
- 2.10 Material Variants
- 2.10.1 Material Master of the Material Variant
- 2.10.2 BOM and Material Variant
- 2.10.3 Routing and Material Variant
- 2.10.4 Pricing and Material Variant
- 2.10.5 Material Variant Matching
- 2.10.6 Material Variant Matching at the Header and Assembly Levels
- 2.11 How to Create a Product Model for the IPC
- 2.12 Summary
- 3 Business Processes in SAP ERP
- 3.1 Introduction—Variant Configuration in Business Processes
- 3.1.1 BOMs in Variant Configuration
- 3.1.2 Order Engineering Workbench
- 3.2 Variant Configuration with iPPE—Modeling
- 3.2.1 Product Variant Structure and Product Designer
- 3.2.2 Modeling From Requirements to Production
- 3.2.3 Feature and Requirement Structures
- 3.2.4 Structure Nodes, Component Variants, and Object Dependencies
- 3.2.5 Concepts
- 3.2.6 Filter: Explosion and Configuration Simulation
- 3.2.7 BOM Converter
- 3.2.8 PLM WebUI
- 3.3 Integration of Variant Configuration—The Classic Process
- 3.3.1 Sales Activities
- 3.3.2 Requirements Planning
- 3.3.3 Controlling the Requirements Transfer
- 3.3.4 Procurement: In-House Production or External Procurement
- 3.4 Processes with Extended Integration Aspects
- 3.4.1 In-House Production Process
- 3.4.2 Quality Management and Variant Configuration
- 3.4.3 Purchasing and Configurable Model Service Specifications
- 3.4.4 Project System, Configurable Standard Networks, and Variant Configuration
- 3.4.5 Customer Service and Configurable General Maintenance Task Lists
- 3.5 Planning and Variant Configuration
- 3.5.1 Excursus: Evaluations in the Variant Configuration Environment
- 3.5.2 Planning and Variant Configuration
- 3.5.3 Pure Assembly Planning
- 3.5.4 Characteristics Planning and Standard Product Planning
- 3.5.5 Characteristics Planning and Standard Product Planning with Long-Term Planning
- 3.5.6 Variant Planning and Planning with Planning Variants
- 3.5.7 Variant Configuration and SCM APO
- 3.5.8 Planning and SCM APO
- 3.6 Summary
- 4 Customizing SAP ERP for Variant Configuration
- 4.1 Explicit Customizing of Variant Configuration
- 4.1.1 Maintenance Authorizations
- 4.1.2 Status
- 4.1.3 Groups
- 4.1.4 Configurable Objects
- 4.1.5 Configuration User Interface
- 4.2 Classification System Customizing
- 4.3 Business Process Customizing Relevant for Variant Configuration
- 4.3.1 Configurable Material Master
- 4.3.2 Item Categories and Their Determination
- 4.3.3 Requirements Types, Requirements Classes, and Their Determination
- 4.3.4 Planning Strategies
- 4.3.5 Change Profiles in Order Change Management (OCM)
- 4.4 Summary
- 5 Special Features of Product Configuration in SAP CRM
- 5.1 Product Configuration in Different Channels
- 5.2 Configuration of Products versus Services
- 5.3 Procedure for Integrated Production in SAP ERP
- 5.3.1 Sales Configuration versus Production Configuration
- 5.3.2 Replication of the Master Data from SAP ERP
- 5.4 Creating a Product Model Using the PME
- 5.4.1 Essential Properties and Differences Compared to Modeling in SAP ERP
- 5.4.2 Calling the PME
- 5.4.3 Product Models versus Knowledge Bases
- 5.4.4 Version and Status Management
- 5.4.5 Classes, Characteristics, and Values
- 5.4.6 Object Dependencies in the PME
- 5.4.7 Transport of Knowledge Bases
- 5.5 IPC User Interface
- 5.5.1 JavaServer Pages and J2EE Engine
- 5.5.2 Extended Configuration Management (XCM)
- 5.6 Special Functions of the IPC User Interface
- 5.6.1 Images and Other Objects
- 5.6.2 Import-Export of Configuration Results
- 5.6.3 Pricing Overview
- 5.6.4 Better Handling of Restrictable Characteristics
- 5.6.5 Search/Set
- 5.6.6 Displaying Long Texts (as of SAP CRM 2006s)
- 5.6.7 Messages Controlled by the Configurator (as of SAP CRM 2006s)
- 5.6.8 Configuration Comparison (as of SAP CRM 2006s)
- 5.7 UI Designer (as of SAP CRM 7.0)
- 5.8 Summary
- 6 Challenges in Variant Configuration
- 6.1 Performance Optimization
- 6.1.1 Performance Bottlenecks—Occurrence and Influencing Factors
- 6.1.2 Reasons for Performance Bottlenecks
- 6.1.3 Performance Analysis
- 6.2 Change Management
- 6.2.1 Engineering Change Management (ECM)
- 6.2.2 Order Change Management (OCM)
- 6.3 Complex System Configurations
- 6.3.1 System Configuration—Definition
- 6.3.2 Dynamic Modification of the BOM Structure
- 6.3.3 Interlinked Configuration Structures in LO-VC
- 6.3.4 Composition Problems in SCE Advanced Mode
- 6.4 Master Data Distribution with Product Data Replication (PDR)
- 6.4.1 Challenge and Opportunities
- 6.4.2 PDR Components (ALE, Configuration Management, and Workflow)
- 6.4.3 Setting Up PDR
- 6.4.4 Preparations in the System
- 6.4.5 Setup and Customizing of PDR
- 6.4.6 Replication of a VC Model with PDR
- 6.5 Summary
- 7 Enhancements in SAP Industry Solution DIMP
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 DIMP—Discrete Industries and Mill Products
- 7.3 Special Requirements of the Mill Industry
- 7.3.1 Sales Order Processing and Production Scenarios
- 7.3.2 Production Discrepancies—Planned Configuration and Actual Configuration
- 7.4 Product Configuration Enhancements in SAP for Mill Products
- 7.4.1 Fast Entry of Characteristics—Simplified Entry of Configurable Document Items
- 7.4.2 Inheritance in Item Documents—Global and Local Items
- 7.4.3 Copying Default Values from the Customer Material Information Record
- 7.4.4 Working with Sales Order Versions
- 7.4.5 Variant Configuration in Connection with Make-to-Stock Production
- 7.4.6 Order Combination with Configurable Products
- 7.5 Summary
- 8 Enhancements and Add-Ons in the SAP Partner Environment
- 8.1 Sybit Model Tester (Company: Sybit GmbH)
- 8.1.1 Manual Testing—Transaction CU50
- 8.1.2 Benefits of Automated Tests
- 8.1.3 Sybit Model Tester
- 8.1.4 Summary
- 8.2 Sybit Configuration Visualizer (Company: Sybit GmbH)
- 8.2.1 Problem
- 8.2.2 Sybit Configuration Visualizer
- 8.2.3 User View
- 8.2.4 Modeler View—The Visualization Modeling Environment
- 8.2.5 System View
- 8.2.6 Summary
- 8.3 VCPowerPack (Company: AICOMP Group)
- 8.3.1 How VCPowerPack Works
- 8.3.2 VCPowerPack—CoreVC
- 8.3.3 VCPowerPack—SmartVC
- 8.3.4 VCPowerPack—SmartPR
- 8.3.5 VCPowerPack—SmartMD
- 8.3.6 VCPowerPack—Industry Solutions
- 8.3.7 Project Acceleration
- 8.3.8 Summary
- 8.4 it.cadpilot (Companies: itelligence AG and ACATEC Software GmbH)
- 8.4.1 CAD and SAP—Two Configuration Worlds?
- 8.4.2 Structure of Modern 3D CAD Systems
- 8.4.3 Controlling CAD Systems
- 8.4.4 Super BOM in Variant Configuration
- 8.4.5 Architecture
- 8.4.6 CAD Configuration
- 8.4.7 Advantages of a CAD Configuration Integrated into SAP ERP
- 8.4.8 Application Scenarios
- 8.4.9 Additional Options
- 8.5 Convenience Features for Sales, Marketing, and Modeling (Company: encoway GmbH)
- 8.5.1 K-Select
- 8.5.2 K-Assistant
- 8.5.3 K-Connect
- 8.5.4 K-Document
- 8.5.5 Quoteassistant
- 8.5.6 Summary of Convenience Features
- 8.6 top flow Framework and top flow-Variant Engine (Company: top flow GmbH)
- 8.6.1 Optimizing the Configuration Dialog Box
- 8.6.2 Functional Enhancements
- 8.6.3 New Object-Dependency Logic Options
- 8.6.4 Process Optimization with the top flow Variant Engine
- 8.7 Product Model Validation with ConfigScan (Companies: Fysbee SA and eSpline LLC)
- 8.7.1 Business Scenarios That Motivate the Need for Change
- 8.7.2 Anti-Patterns in Common Use
- 8.7.3 How ConfigScan Addresses these Issues
- 8.7.4 ConfigScan Validation Suite—The Basics
- 8.7.5 Working with the Test Editor
- 8.7.6 Use Case: Nokia Siemens Networks
- 8.7.7 Summary
- 8.8 Managing Variant Configuration (Company: eSpline LLC)
- 8.8.1 Managing the LO-VC Model Lifecycle
- 8.8.2 Managing the LO-VC Transactional Processes
- 8.8.3 Summary
- 8.9 Summary
- 9 Project Lead Reports on Projects and Project Structures
- 9.1 “We’re Implementing SAP!”—A Project Lead’s Experience Report
- 9.1.1 The Marketing Pitch and What Will Follow—Clarify the Prerequisites for Your Work
- 9.1.2 Analyze Your Business Processes and Improve Them
- 9.1.3 How Many Instances Would You Like to Have?
- 9.1.4 The Regional versus Global Approach
- 9.1.5 Dealing with Modifications to the Standard System
- 9.1.6 The Compromises You Can or Cannot Accept
- 9.1.7 Finding the Appropriate External Support
- 9.1.8 Communicate Changes Effectively
- 9.1.9 Communicate Necessary Compromise Effectively
- 9.1.10 Train Your Employees
- 9.1.11 Problems After Going Live
- 9.1.12 Changing Mass Data
- 9.1.13 Changing Business Models
- 9.2 Roles in a Variant Configuration Team
- 9.2.1 Expertise and Experts
- 9.2.2 Putting Together and Structuring the Project Team
- 9.3 ASAP for Variant Configuration Projects
- 9.3.1 Project Preparation
- 9.3.2 Business Blueprint
- 9.3.3 Realization
- 9.3.4 Final Preparation
- 9.3.5 Go-Live and Support
- 9.3.6 Golden Client Approach
- 9.3.7 Specific Features of IPC Scenarios
- 9.4 Summary
- 10 Customer Reports on the Introduction of SAP Variant Configuration
- 10.1 Progress of the Project at Getriebebau NORD
- 10.1.1 Initial Situation
- 10.1.2 Measures
- 10.1.3 Results
- 10.1.4 Summary
- 10.2 Configurable Materials at Krones AG
- 10.2.1 Project
- 10.2.2 Results
- 10.2.3 Summary
- 10.3 Progress of the Project at Hauni Maschinenbau AG
- 10.3.1 Personnel Resources
- 10.3.2 Result
- 10.3.3 Using the Order Engineering Workbench
- 10.4 Variant Configuration at the Felix Schoeller Group
- 10.4.1 Project
- 10.4.2 Results
- 10.4.3 Extending Variant Configuration Using the IPC
- 10.4.4 Summary
- 10.5 SAP at Hülsta and in the Hüls Corporate Group
- 10.5.1 Initial Situation
- 10.5.2 Preparation
- 10.5.3 Project Objectives and Results
- 10.5.4 Summary
- 10.6 Lenze Group—Past, Present, and Future Configuration
- 10.6.1 Present Configuration—The EuLe Project
- 10.6.2 Future Configuration—Powerful Process Integration
- 10.7 Product Configuration at Baldor Electric
- 10.7.1 Starting Point of the Project
- 10.7.2 Key Characteristics of the Project
- 10.7.3 Basics of the Variant Model
- 10.7.4 Conclusion
- 10.8 Summary
- 11 Configuration Workgroup
- 11.1 Introduction to the CWG
- 11.2 Tasks and Objectives
- 11.3 History
- 11.4 Organizational Structure
- 11.5 CWG Conferences
- 11.6 CWG Portal
- 11.7 CWG Sandbox System
- 11.8 Summary
- 12 Outlook for SAP Business ByDesign
- 12.1 SAP Business ByDesign
- 12.2 Product Configuration in Medium-Sized Businesses
- 12.3 Make to Order in SAP Business ByDesign
- 12.3.1 Extending the Product Concept
- 12.3.2 Make to Specification
- 12.3.3 Lightweight Product Variants
- 12.4 Product Configuration in SAP Business ByDesign
- 12.4.1 Product Model
- 12.4.2 Product Properties
- 12.4.3 Integration of a Configurator
- 12.4.4 Process Automation
- 12.5 Summary
- Appendices
- A Database Tables of Variant Configuration
- B APIs of Variant Configuration
- C User Exits of Variant Configuration
- D Comprehensive Examples of Variant Functions
- E The Authors
- Index
