S41600 - Variant Configuration: Integration and Configuration Training in South Africa

The Variant Configuration: Integration and Configuration course provides a deep dive into SAP S/4HANA Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC).
You will learn to model configurable products, manage object dependencies, and integrate variant configuration with sales, production, quality, maintenance, and project management processes.

Through practical scenarios and case studies, you will explore configuration profiles, variant tables, classification systems, and data distribution strategies. You will also gain hands-on experience in planning, reporting, and cross-module integration of AVC within SAP S/4HANA.

Essential:

• S41500 (Variant Configuration AVC on S/4HANA) or S4105 or PLM145

• Knowledge of Sales & Distribution, Planning, and Production processes

Recommended:

• S41000 (Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Product Development)

• Understanding of additional logistics processes

• Application Consultants

• Business Analysts

• Solution Architects

• Project Managers

• Process Owners and Technology Consultants

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Use and customize variant configuration scenarios in SAP S/4HANA.

• Apply additions to configuration profiles and object dependencies.

• Plan and evaluate variant products with BOM explosion and order BOM processing.

• Leverage variant tables and classification tools for product modeling.

• Integrate variant configuration with quality management, service, and project systems.

• Manage product data distribution and cross-functional AVC integration.

• Utilize new syntax and functionalities in Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC).

• Review of Variant Configuration (Basics from S41500)

• Advanced Configuration Scenarios:

  • Production Order without BOM Explosion

  • Production Order with BOM Explosion

  • Sales Order (SET Processing)

  • Order BOM for Engineer-to-Order (ETO) Process

• Enhancing the Configuration Profile

• Variant Tables and Reference Characteristics

• Planning and Forecasting for Variant Products

• Integration with Quality Management and Maintenance Service

• Variant Configuration in Purchasing and Project System

• Reporting and Product Data Distribution

• New Functionalities and Syntax in AVC