Related topics
- Connect a configurable parent item to a configurator parameter
- Connect a component item to a configurator parameter
On this panel you can connect real items from the Item file to a parameter previously defined in the Configurator parameter table. This is important if the configuration is to function.
Both the configurable parent item and the components must be connected to configurator parameters. The real parent item and the configurable components must also be connected to bill of materials and bill of routings.
The configurable parent item should be connected to the parameter in which all possible attributes for that configurable item are defined. (For example, the item Car is connected to a parameter with the attributes Colour, Engine and Gear.)
Function keys
| Text | Maintain text that is connected to the configurator item.
If the text is active for document *CFGTEXT, it is used to create text lines for the configured item to be printed on external documents. If the text is active for document *SHOPFLOOR, it is used to create text on the manufacturing order (BOM) to be printed on shop floor documents. The configurator item text can also be configured, if you refer to substitution variables (an attribute code with a “%” as a prefix). |
| Alternative bill of routing | Only used when DC1 Manufacturing is activated.
Maintain alternative bills of routing that are connected to the configurator item. |
| Validation | Maintain constraints that are connected to the configurator item. |
| Alternative selections | Maintain alternative selection constraints that will be used to identify and select the item when generating a bill of material. |
- Item
- Warehouse
When generating the bill of material, and main warehouse is used as material allocation warehouse, the entered warehouse in this table may be used to override the main warehouse for reservations.If the STKOWNER (Stock Ownership) function is activated in the Function control file, the warehouse entered must be classified as a normal or trade (logical) warehouse (i.e. the Warehouse characteristic flag in Work with warehouses must be set to 1 (normal) or 2 (trade). See About the stock ownership functionality for more information.
- Parameter
- Bill of material
- The configurator bill of material that is connected to the configurator item. Mandatory entry if the item will be used as a parent item for configuration on lower levels.
- Bill of routing
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. The bill of routing that is connected to the configurator item. Mandatory entry if the item will be used as a parent item for configuration on lower levels. If this field is left blank the routing code of the bill of material will be used.
- Type of constraints
- The code indicates if the constraints that are defined for the configurator item are invalid or valid. Note: This code cannot be changed if constraints have been defined.
Code Description 1 Invalid combinations are defined 2 Valid combinations are defined
- Type of dialogue
- The code defines the selection method to be used during the product configuration.
Code Description 1 Prompted entry (attribute entry)
This method displays all available attribute selections.2 Part selection (component item selection)
This method lists all possible component items for each variable component (configurator parameter) in the configurator bill of material.
- Display gen BOM/BOR
- Indicates if the generated bill of material and bill of routing should be displayed after answer on the prompted entry panel.
- Alt BOR option
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. Indicates if the alternative bill of routing should replace the selected bill of routing or be added to it. Enter 1 for replacing the selected bill of routing; 2 for adding one alternate BOR to the selected bill of routing; or 3 for adding multiple alternate BOR’s to the selected bill of routing. Note: This field appears blank if bill of material and bill of routing fields do not hold any information.
- Product costing
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. The code indicates if and how the product costing should be performed when the configuration has been accepted. It is important to do a product costing for complex configurable items, such as items in which the optional components have different prices. For these items, the price of the parent item will differ depending on the selected attributes. Product costing is, however, not that important for items in which the components have the same price. In this case, the price of the configurable item will be the same regardless of the selected attributes.
Code Description 0 No product costing. 1 Product costing without display. 2 Product costing with display. Note: Product costing is not performed in the following cases:
- At configuration of order structure items
- When an item is used as a configured component in an order structure with Sales price calc = 3
Note: If Pricing is selected as 2 (sales price based on product costing), then Product costing should be selected as 1 or 2.
- Pricing
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. The code indicates how the sales order line price should be handled.
Code Description 0 No pricing from configuration. Order is priced according to normal pricing routine within the sales order. 1 Additional price. The configured item’s sales price list along with the price calculated using price formula defined in the configuration BOM/BOR will be the base sales price. 2 Sales price based on the product costing set-up for base price. Note: It is mandatory to select either of the values 0, 1, or 2 in the event the item is defined with a bill of material.
Note: An error message will be displayed if the item is defined without a BOM and Pricing is selected as 0, 1, or 2.
- Create standard item
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. Indicates if a new standard item should be created automatically from the configuration. If this field is set to YES, standard items will be created in the following cases:
- At order entry when you configure a new variant of a configurable item
- When you copy a configuration variant to a new order from an order or a quotation
Note: Creation of standard items is not performed on MDC orders.
- Check for std item
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. Indicates if the system should search for an existing configured standard item that matches the attribute values of the entered configuration at order entry or when copying an order configuration or quotation configuration to a new order.
- If this field is set to NO, and if Create standard item is set to YES, a new standard item will be created even if a matching configured standard item already exists.
- If this field is set to YES, and if a standard item exists that matches the attribute values of the entered configuration, the system will add the existing standard item to the order instead of the configured item.
Note: This field is automatically set to YES the first time that a new standard item is created.
- Item code mask
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. Mandatory entry if Create standard item is set to YES. The variables indicate how the item code should be generated when you create a standard item from a configuration. The item code mask can be defined using configurator attributes (preceeded by %), predefined variables (preceeded by &) and fixed constants (text).
Variable Description &91 Order number/quotation number &92 Line number &93 Serial number created from number series defined in the CFG control file. Example:
If you use the attributes A1 and A2 for the configurable item TABLE, you could define the item code mask as TABLE%A1%A2.Note: If fixed constants (text) are defined after the attribute code, at least one blank must be inserted after the attribute code (i.e. %A1%A2 TABLE).
Note: When a standard item is created during sales order copy, the variable &91 refers to the order/quotation that has been copied.
Note: If item segmentation is activated in the DIS control file and a segmentation type is used for the configurable item in the Item file, the item code mask must be defined according to the rules defined by the segmentation type.
- M-order type
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. The code from the Manufacturing order type table defines the order type that is used when a manufacturing order is created after a sales order configuration for this item. Note: The order type defined in this field overrides the one that has been defined in the MFG control file or in the manufacturing information for the user profile.
- Variant
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated and if the Variant handling field is set to YES in the MFG control file. The variant of the item that is used as a component in the generated bill of material. An item can have several variants, where parts of the bill of material and/or bill of routing differ from the base structure. The base structure always has variant 000. Note: The variant defined in this field overrides the one that has been defined in the Configurator bill of material.
- Price list
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. The price list to be used when calculating an additional price according to the price formula defined in Configurator bill of material table when this item is selected. This price list overrides the price list for the order/quotation. Calculated price is automatically added to sales price for the configured product.
Note: Price calculation using price formula is not used when configuring an order structure item or when an item is used as a configured component in an order structure with Sales price calc = 3.
- Edit description
- The code for a component item that is used to edit the description of the configured product. This code will be added to the item description of the parent item at order entry. Substitution variables may also be used to edit the description of a configured product. This is done by referring to an attribute code, with a “%” as a prefix, in the item description for the parent item.
- Pr unit conv formula
- This field is only displayed if DC1 Manufacturing is installed and activated. Enter a formula code from the Work with configurator formulas file to calculate the price unit conversion factor to be used for sales price unit. Note: An error message will be displayed if the item is defined without BOM and you enter a formula code in this field.