Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration (2XU)

Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration (2XU)

Variant configuration is an important tool in the manufacturing process. Improve your company's product Engineering, Sales, Procurement, and Manufacturing performance with SAP software for integrated variant configuration and classification. Enable your business process to handle highly individualized products in sales, Procurement and Manufacturing.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Create a customer sales order (optionally based on a sales quotation) for a product configured per customer requirement
  • Identify and create a purchase order for required configurable material for the supplier
  • Post goods receipt and invoice for payment to supplier
  • Process delivery and billing to customer

Benefits

  • Improve your company's manufacturing and procurement performance with integrated Advanced Variant Configuration covering single-level as well as multi-level configurable materials
  • Enable your business processes to handle highly individualized products in manufacturing and Procurement
  • Leverage the sophisticated algorithms in the performance-optimized rules engine within a state-of-the-art configurator
  • Use dependencies to prevent combinations of options that are not allowed and can be used to select exactly the right components
  • Set pricing according to the configuration

Additional Information

  • This scope item requires an additional SAP S/4HANA Cloud license

Where is Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration(2XU) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

  • As a core function of Operational Procurement within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group
  • As a core function of Product Lifecycle Management within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group

Process flow of Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration (2XU)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration as it is defined for release s4hc-2111.


Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration (2XU) - S/4HANA Cloud
Ref: R&D/Engineering of SAP S4HC-2111
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