Variant production

In the BoM and in the routing, you simply specify the variant with which this is used. An extra activation switch is available for each variant. This simple type of variant production is used if no other calculations are needed. This procedure is inflexible but very easy to use.
Advantage:

▪Very simple operation

▪Very quick setup

▪Very transparent

 
Disadvantage:

•Limited possibilities

Item version control can serve as variant management tool. Every version will be a variant in this case.

Control by setting up the visibility of single routing or BOM positions or define a separate BOm position per variant ( = in this case the version)

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The formulas or tables obtain their values via source types, which can in turn be assigned any kind of information. This could be information from the product configurator, from the item, from the customer order or simply a manual input.

The variant generator is active when creating a calculation or work order.

The manually input data is not saved. The product configurator can be used for this.

Advantage:

- Theoretically unlimited calculation possibilities

Disadvantage:

- If the product configurator is not used, there is no proper user interface

- Not considered in material requirement planning - unless you create a calculation which the MRP run can reference.

Use this for

- generate order related sales order or quotation with price calculation

- Business to Business: Business partner can use the WEB front end to generate orders

Don't use it

- For End user, if you need more then 50 parallel sessions

- if you need very complex configurator

The product configurator requires the variant generator, if you want to create Items or Work orders.
The configuration is created at the time of the quotation/order and transferred to the precalculation or production document using the variant generator.

Advantage:
- good and simple interface
- Many calculation possibilities

Disadvantage:

- High training requirement for setup

- High setup costs

- Not considered in material requirement planning - unless you create a calculation which the MRP run can reference

Limitations:

If you change a property in Front end, the system calculate at real time the complete configurations
All formulas must be executed. beas use in memory technology and check, which formula must be calculate again

If you need more than 400 formulas (WEB: 200) inside or if the configuration have more then 2000 (WEB: 1000) lines, the Frond end can be slow.

- Split configurations. Define more then one configuration definition

- Try to use less formulas as possible

- Use DataWindow Syntax for formulas, if you've a fast client

- Use SQL Syntax, if clients slow, but SQL server fast

-  Only calculate information, which you need for the Configuration. Don't calculate information which you need for the work order.  

It is possible to work with external configurator

This make sense, if you need better graphical interface or for End user web pages

The external configurator must save the result in some tables in current SQL Database

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