Product variants - Purchased configurable items

This topic explains the following functionality that pertains to purchased configurable items:

  • Compare any configured item of the variant.

  • Define product variant purchase price structure.

Compare variants

You can compare two product variants to check the following:

  • The inventory of a configured purchased subassembly.

  • The possibility of using inventory of a matching configuration rather than order a new configured item.

Note

You can consider two configured items as interchangeable if all the options are the same.

You can compare the following configured items of a product variant:

  • The configured end item

  • Any configurable child

To compare the configured items of a product variant , you can use the Option List ID. The configurable items are compared at the option set level. Two configured items that are created by a variant are considered as interchangeable if they have the same Option List ID.

The Option List ID is used for the following types of transactions:

  • Manufactured assembly item transactions

  • Purchased configured item transactions

  • Inventory transactions

Variant numbers and Option list IDs

The matching of demand and supply of purchased configurable items is based on the Option List ID.

The matching of the demand and supply of a manufactured assembly end item is based on the product variant. Example the demand for the manufactured assembly end item is generated when a product variant is created for a new sales order. The Option List ID for this variant matches with a redundant variant which is in stock. An assembly order is created to meet this demand is created as the variant numbers differ.

The variants numbers and Option List IDs are used in the following processes:

  • Create assembly planning ( Calculate Assembly Part Requirements (tiapl2221m000)

  • Generate assembly orders

  • Generate warehouse outbound advice.

Product variant purchase price structure

You can set up the purchase price for a configured item. The purchase price depends on the options of a configured item. You can calculate the purchase price of a variant during the configuration process. You can do so, after you calculate the sales price. If you update the variant, you are prompted to re-calculate the sales price.

To re-calculate the sales price, the configuration date is used as the reference date for price list validation. You can set the configuration date in the Sales Parameters (tdsls0500m000) session in the Sales package. The Configuration Date (PCS) can be:

  • Order Date

  • System Date

  • Delivery Date

To calculate the purchase price for a set of variants, you can use the Calculate Product Variant Purchase Price Structure (tipcf5235m000)

To calculate the purchase price for the current variant, you can use the following sessions:

  • Product Variants (tipcf5501m000)

  • Product Variant Purchase Price Structure (tipcf5535m000)

The purchase price for the schedule is retrieved from the Generic Price Lists (tipcf4101m000) session and is based on the value selected in the Purchase Price Date Type field in the Pricing Parameters (tdpcg0100m000) session. Allowed values

  • Order Date

  • System Date

  • Delivery Date

Important!

The purchase price structure is used for analysis only.

Note

Since different dates are used as reference date for sales price/purchase price calculation, the price on the schedule can differ from the price displayed in the variant data.

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