Advanced Configurator

The BuyDesign advanced configurator is an interactive configurator which is integrated with LN. The configurator is user-friendly. The Product Configurator (PCF) module stores the configuration information required to handle the manufacturing process.

To set up the advanced configurator, complete the following steps:

  1. Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000)
    To enable the advanced configurator functionality, select the Advanced Configurator Integration check box. This field is enabled only when the Product Configurator (PCF) check box is selected.
  2. Profiles (tipcf0120m000)
    Specify the profile used for the advanced configurator. The profile defines the language and the view of the model of the configurator.
  3. User Profiles (tipcf0125m000)
    • Specify the default profile as part of the user profile. The user profile overrides the profile defined in the Advanced Configurator Settings (tipcf0110m000) session.
    • Before starting sales order configuration LN checks for the confirmation of the user. When you start the advanced configurator, by default the profile defined in the user profile or Item settings is executed. The authorized user can override the default profile, by selecting a different profile from the list of profiles defined in the Profiles (tipcf0120m000) session. You can use either the defaulted or manually changed profile to start the BuyDesign configurator.
  4. Advanced Configurator Settings (tipcf0110m000)
    To enable the advanced configurator settings for the company, item group or the item, select the Configured by Advanced Configurator check box. You can define the Specific Settings such as, Currency, Application URL and Profile. It is very important that the settings defined in LN must be in sync with the settings of the advanced configurator.

To configure an item using the BuyDesign advanced configurator, complete the following steps:

  1. Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000)
    Create a sales order line, select the configurable item and confirm the configuration of the product. The BuyDesign advanced configurator starts in new Web user interface page and the options defined for the model in BuyDesign are displayed.

    Apart from the sales order lines in the Sales package, the product variant can configured using below sessions:

    • Sales Quotation Lines (tdsls1501m000)
    • Product Variants (tipcf5501m000)
    • Product Variants (tiapl3500m000)
    • Element Budget (Material Lines) (tpptc1510m000)
    • Activity Budget (Material Lines) (tpptc2110m000)
    • Estimate Lines (tpest2100m000).
    • Planned PRP Warehouse Orders (tppss6815m000)
  2. BuyDesign configurator Web UI
    You can view the product features, options, images of the options and also the final image of the model as defined in BuyDesign. Select the required options to configure the product. The BuyDesign configurator also provides you the final price of the item. Save the data and close the configurator. The product variant is created. If the features and options configured in Buydesign are not available in LN, then they are created after the configuration. However, only the options or features which are selected are integrated, but not the options which are not selected in the model.
  3. Product Variants (tipcf5101s000)
    Review the status of the product variant in the Advanced Configurator Status field. Review the Advanced Configurator Variant field, the check box must be checked for the variants created using the advanced configurator.
Note

The sales price is calculated by the BuyDesign. The product variant created in the advanced configurator and the features, options, option sets (PCF levels) of the product variant are stored in the Product Configurator (PCF) module.

You can configure, reconfigure, modify or delete the product variant. After the product variant is created, you can continue with the standard sales and manufacturing process if required.