| Selling multiples of product variants for assemblyFor assembly items, two types of sales order lines exist. Depending on the type of
end item, Assembly Planning must be configured differently for both types of sales order
lines. Depending on the setting of the Sell Multiples of Same Configuration check box in the Assembly Planning Parameters (tiapl0100s000) session you either: Sell single If this check box is cleared, the order quantity on the sales order line has
a fixed value of one. To sell multiple end items, you must create multiple
sales order lines. Sell multiples If this check box is selected, the order quantity on the sales order line is
one or more.
The following table displays the differences: Sell single | Sell
multiples | The Sell Multiples of Same Configuration check box in the Assembly Planning Parameters (tiapl0100s000) session is cleared. | The Sell Multiples of Same Configuration check box in the Assembly Planning Parameters (tiapl0100s000) session is selected. | The
sales order line has a fixed quantity of one. You maintain sales order lines in
the Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session. | The sales order line has a quantity of
one or more. Specified quantities must be whole numbers. | The
end item has item type Generic, Manufactured or Product. | The item must be storable in inventory
and have item type Manufactured, or Product.
To store items with this item type, they must be linked to items of the type Generic in
the Configurable Item - Assembly Line (tiapl2500m000) session. To keep track of information on
the link between sales order, product variant and assembly line, use demand pegging. | Each sales order line
corresponds with one assembly order. | Each sales order line corresponds with one or more assembly orders. All assembly orders have an order quantity of
one. | The item's serial number is used to determine which completed item is delivered to the
customer. | The item's specification is used to determine which completed item
is delivered to the customer. | The AssemblyStatus field of the Product Variants (Assembly) (tiapl3500m000) session displays the progress of the
assembly order for the product variant of the sales order line. | The AssemblyStatus field of the Product Variants (Assembly) (tiapl3500m000) session always has value Open. | The requested offline date and planned offline date for the associated assembly order are displayed in the Product Variants (Assembly) (tiapl3500m000) session. | No requested offline date or planned offline date can be displayed for the assembly order, the product
variant may be in use on multiple assembly orders at once. | The
product variant's reference type is Sales Order. | The product variant's reference type
is Standard Variant. | You can view demand related date in the Assembly Orders (tiasc2502m000) session for the assembly orders with the Demand Order Type Sales Order. | Assembly orders for multiples do not have demand order
information. |
Note - Selecting Sell Multiples of Same Configuration check box does not affect product
variants already in use.
- You can configure product variants that contain purchased
configurable items. Usually these items are configurable subassemblies that are
part of the item structure and issued at the assembly link similarly to other
assembly parts.
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