Summary
You can use product configuration in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to create many product variants that meet individual customer requirements. You can achieve this by reusing a small set of components that you can define and use in many combinations.
You can create a product configuration model to represent a generic product structure. After you have a complete product configuration model, you can create distinct product variants that have their own unique BOMs and routes.
Some key areas that were discussed in this module include:
Product configuration parameters - Errors will occur if the parameters are not defined when you try to test a configuration or configure a line.
Components - Must be created or existing components must be used to add subcomponents to a product configuration model.
Attribute types - Define the possible values that can be assigned to an attribute. They can be used for any attribute in all product configuration models.
Subcomponents - Represent the tree structure of a product configuration model.
Attributes - Describe the features of the product.
Constraints - Represent conditions that a product configuration must satisfy.
User requirements - Resemble subcomponents, except that they do not have the item master mapping and behave like a phantom BOM.
BOM lines - Identify a manufacturing BOM for each component and can reference an item or a service.
Route operations - Include route operations to identify the manufacturing routes for the subcomponents.