# Variant Management

## How to ...

Preparing the Examples

- Prepare Items for Variants

Working with a Variant Wildcard

- Enter a Variant Wildcard
- Define the Variant Wildcard Properties / Attributes
- Open and Edit the Variant Form
- Display the Matrix List
- Assign a Variant Wildcard to an Item
- Display the Variant Wildcard Assignment to Items
- Delete the Variant Wildcard

Working with Structures (Identical Items)

- Define Identical Items
- Delete the Structure (Identical Item) Assignments

Working with Orders

- Create an Order (Vari.)
- Derive an Order
- Display the Structure of a Derived Order
- Display the Order-specific Bill of Material
- Display Order-specific BOM Items
- Delete the Derived Structure of an Order
- Delete an Order

Working with Optional Items

- Create Optional Items
- Derive an Order with Optional Items

Working with Default Variants

- Define a Default Variant
- Assign Items to a Default Variant
- Assign a Variant Wildcard to a Default Variant
- Derive an Order with Default Variant
- Delete a Default Variant

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

| 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: