Creating a Configuration Profile

Procedure

From the Variant Configuration menu, choose Configuration profile ® Create.

You see a dialog box. Select the object for which you want to create a configuration profile.

Enter the name of the object.

Confirm your entries.

3. You see the profile overview.

4. Enter a profile name and the class type whose classes you want to use for configuration. In Customizing for the Classification System, the class type must be defined as a variant class type.
5. Choose Goto
® Class assignments or the Class assignments pushbutton to assign the object to a class. (You can also specify the class assignment in Materials Management by choosing Create/Change Material, or in the Classification System by choosing Assign Object to Class.)

• You see the classification screen, where you enter the class.
• Define allowed values for the configurable object if required.

You can only release a profile if you have assigned the configurable object to a class. (see also Class Assignment)

4. To go to the detail screen, where you define further settings, choose the Profile detail pushbutton or double-click on the profile.

Optional Settings on the Profile Overview

• Organizational Areas

You can specify organizational areas for configuration. If you restrict a profile to specific organizational areas, you only see the characteristics that are relevant to your area when you configure the object.

You can change how characteristics are displayed according to organizational area for your user on the value assignment screen (see Organizational Areas).

• Priority of Configuration Profiles

You can create several configuration profiles for a configurable material. The profile with the lowest number has the highest priority.

If you define several profiles for an object, you see a dialog box for selecting a profile when you start configuration. The profile with the highest priority is at the top of the list.

The priority is also relevant if you use Application Link Enabling (ALE) or intermediate documents (IDocs) to run configuration, rather than dialog mode. In this case, the profile with the highest priority is selected for the object.

Profiles that have no priority are at the top of the list, because they automatically have priority 0.

Profile Detail

Configuration Profiles for Materials

The configuration profile has several screens. Depending on what you enter for the BOM explosion and configuration process, fields are shown or hidden.

The parameters you maintain for a material apply to the material as a header material in a BOM structure. You cannot define separate settings for use of a configurable material as an assembly in a BOM.

• By choosing the Assignments pushbutton, you can assign dependencies to the configuration profile. You also see this pushbutton on the basic data tab, once at least one dependency is assigned.

Basic Data Tab

• In the basic data, you see the profile overview data.
• You can determine whether the configuration process starts with a Start logo. To do this, you assign the document you want to display, such as a graphic showing the product you want to configure, to the variant class.

Configuration Initial Screen Tab

Configuration parameters

You specify the parameters for BOM explosion and the configuration process in the sales order.

• You must enter a BOM application, unless you select BOM explosion: None:
• You can enter a level of detail for a multi-level configuration. You can display configurable assemblies only in the BOM explosion. This improves system performance.
• You can define a filter.
• You can set the indicator for an availability check on assemblies.

Userinterf

Under Userinterf, you maintain the settings for the configuration editor user interface.

• You can specify an interface design to group characteristics together on the value assignment screen.
• You can choose Settings to define object-specific settings for functions in the configuration editor. These settings are defaults for configuration, and can be overwritten for your user in the configuration editor.
• For all configuration parameters except BOM explosion: None, you can select screens for the configuration editor and define which screen configuration starts with. The start screen must be one of the allowed screens.

You can select the indicator for the configuration browser independently of the other start screens, because the browser is an additional screen section.

Configuration Profiles for Objects Other than Materials

You see the basic data, where you see the profile overview data.

You can define object-specific settings for displaying characteristics and characteristic values in the configuration editor. These settings are defaults for configuration, and can be overwritten for your user in the configuration editor.

See also:

On configuration parameters:

Controlling the BOM Explosion

No BOM Explosion

Single-Level BOM Explosion

Multi-Level BOM Explosion

Process: Sales Order

Process: Order BOM

Filters for BOM Explosion

Availability of Components

On settings:

Defining Settings for the Language

Defining the Scope and Display Options for Characteristics

Defining Settings for the Default Values

Defining Settings for Pricing

Defining Settings for the Configurator

Settings for Variant Matching