Variant Management

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Preparing the Examples

Working with a Variant Wildcard

Working with Structures (Identical Items)

Working with Orders

Working with Optional Items

Working with Default Variants

The example applications are divided into a short documentation and a corresponding step-by-step example for each function. The short documentation is directed at advanced users and only lists the required steps in a general way. The full description contains a real world example application which allows less experienced users to learn the use of a function step-by-step.

The application examples are logically structured and based on another to discuss a full project.

Not all functions are explicitly explained. Especially simple standard functions and repeated functions have been neglected. In this project, the example of the business process "Designing the EP Ball Pen" the realization using Agile e6 is explained.

Item Management
BOM Management

Note

For the following examples the manager should have set the type of variant wildcard to VARATT by default.

Type of Variant Wildcard (VAR-Flag)

The ball pen is designed as follows: