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Explain what do you mean by material variants? Material Variant - a product variant of a configurable
material.
A material variant is a material that can be kept in stock and that arises from an individual configuration of a configurable product. The material master record of a material variant is linked to the configurable material and configured using the characteristics of the configurable material. This variant of the configurable material can then be manufactured and kept in stock. If specific configurations or of a configurable product occur frequently, it is useful to create individual stock materials for these configurations, so that these materials can be manufactured in advance, and a sales order with this configuration can be supplied from stock if required. In the sales order, you can do type matching for variants, and replace configurable materials with material variants (see Variant Matching in the Sales Order). On the value assignment screen, you can check whether the values assigned match the configuration of a material variant (see Settings for Variant Matching). For material variants, a separate material master record is created with a material type that is kept in stock. You can create a separate BOM and routing for a material variant, or you can link the material variant to the BOM and routing of the configurable material. The correct BOM items and operations are determined from the characteristic values assigned to the variant. Configurable Material - A substance that can have variants such as a car can have different paint, trim, and engines. Configurable materials contain a super bill of material (BOM) that contains all components for producing each variant of the material. When configuring a material, only the components and operations needed for a variant are chosen. Configurable materials are created in a material type that is designated for the configuration, material type KMAT in the standard system, or the Material is configurable indicator is activated in the material master record.
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