What is meant by Variant Configuration?

Answer Posted / manoj kumar guin

Variant cofiguration is a tool that offers the flexibility
of the configuration of the material during the sales order
processing by the end user according the customer
requirement .
IT has integration with different applications :
CA-classification
LO-material master
PP-bom and routing
SD-sales,conditions
pp,mrp,production orders.
Variant configuratin offers a unique feature by which
requrement of creating separate material for each variant
of production is eleminated by using "configurable
material"that contains all the components and operations
production planning requirements .

-Variant configuration offers "source code "creation tool
called DEPENDE that prevents the combination of options
that are not allowed .
-Dependencies select right BOM components and operations to
produce a variant .
-Each configurable material is assigned to a "class"
via "configuration profile "which controlls the
configuration in the sales orders .

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