On my recent evaluational for variant configuration, I got to get back into the CRM world a little bit again. It’s been a while, but this client is using CRM and is looking into using VC & IPC. If the IPC isn’t familiar, it’s SAP’s Internet Pricing and Configuration. It’s the CRM version of variant configuration. It uses all of the standard VC componets (well, almost…). In this post I want to talk about the Variant Configuration integration with the IPC.
If you have a VC model, and you want to use the IPC (which, by the way can also be used in ERP in your sales orders/CU50), there are some key limitation you need to be aware of for the integration with the IPC. Because the IPC is written in java, and not ABAP, there will inevitably be some things that differ. So, I wanted to capture what all those things were.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm700_ehp02/helpdata/en/e8/a3fc3739a25941e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
Among the obvious things like functions, pricing requirements, and anything else ABAP must be rewritten in Java, there are pages of other little things that won’t work, or at least won’t work exactly the same way. So if you’re looking at using the IPC, make sure to check this out. If you are new to variant configuration, try to do all these things in your model from the get go, it’ll make your life much easier later on. Happy configuring.
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Mike