Product Configurator (tipcf5120m000)

You can activate the product configuraton in one of the following sessions:

• Product Variants (tipcf5501m000).
• Product Variants (Assembly) (tiapl3500m000).
• Sales Quotation Lines (tdsls1501m000).
• Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000).
• Element Budget (Material) (tpptc1510m000).
• Activity Budget (Material) (tpptc2110m000).
• Planned PRP Warehouse Orders (tppss6815m000)
• Estimate Lines (tpest2100m000).

You can configure product variants that contain purchased configurable items. You can use a configurable item to create a item structure that can hold a configurable purchased sub-assembly. The purchased sub-assembly is issued at the assembly line like other assembly parts.

For more information on procuring purchased configurable items in Assembly Control module, refer to

• Procuring configured items in Assembly Control - Master Data Setup
• Procuring configured items in Assembly Control - BOM setup
• Product variants - Purchased configurable items

Product features of option sets lower in the configuration structure are automatically inherited from higher levels. This means that the option values for product features in the upper levels of the configuration are automatically exported to the lower levels in the configuration structure. Horizontal dependencies between option values in the configuration structure are achieved with the help of global variables.

When an option set is initialized, the option value is initialized from the higher option sets by inheriting. This is performed for each product feature that belongs to the option set. Afterwards, the before-input option constraint section is performed. During this process, the option value is initialized with the default value that you defined in the Before Input constraint. The option set is then read.