Wading into options and variants

[avillanueva]

We currently do not have options and variants enabled. While we've come close with past products that had some flavors of options, this new one fits the classic model. The number of options are currently low but we've introduced paint color of the housing as a variation. The housing and other external components are 3-4 level below the top level end item in both the BOM and the CAD assembly. I understand that introducing options will potential impact many levels and possible involve restructuring the BOM. Is it worth introducing the added complexity to the system or can this new feature be contained to only the product lines that need it? At what point do you introduce management of options and its functionality to the system?

[HelesicPetr]

Hi @avillanueva 

It is huge competition to start using the options & variants if you do not know it. 

Generally, yes you can use options  variants just for specific products where you really needs to generate specific BOM product. (for example Truck for specific customer) 

you can work parallelly with others products that are not configurable. 

You just need to know that unique BOM is generated from the configurable modules and this unique BOM is used to assembly the product. (send to ERP)

The first part is to define what can be configurable, and what does it mean for BOM. 

Our customer has a a team who cares just about the configurable options and variants how they are defined and so on. 

it is just general info

PetrH