Create Variants for Generic Articles

Hi

I need your assistance in terms of creating Variant articles for Generic Materials. Before I pose my question I would like to give bit of background of my project.

Currently we are required to implement part of Retail solution for one of the IS-Media global corporation. Currently there are multiple companies running all over the world on SAP IS-Media solution. We have already looked to switch on the Retail verticals on the same server. However due to potential business risk it posses, SAP Recommended to do a full regression testing. . Business wouldn’t like to do a regression test, which is the outcome after months of negotiation. The business unit we are required to implement retail is not much significant from a global prospect. Anyway what we have is what we have. This is something we need to work with.

One of the biggest requirements for us to create Variants for generic Articles. Most of our materials are variants in the outlets.

Example in their outlets they sell shirts:

For this we are required to crate Variant Materials based on colour and size. This is possible using SAP Retail creating variants for generic articles. When you create generic articles with below colour and size characteristics, then it will create variant articles such as below automatically. It’s easy to maintain the master data. If master data maintained at the generic level it will automatically be updated at variant level. Each variant is a individual article number.

Example:

Do you have any concept in IS-Media I can use to replicate? Or has any one come across a situation such as this. I seen sap media variants, from what I understand it is something to create using MM01 one at a time. I will be happy if someone can prove me other wise and provide in this regard.

I also have looked at ECC variant configuration, its doesn’t work for my requirement as each variant will not have separate material number and I cannot maintain the master data at generic level and automatically it will update the variants.

I would appreciate your inputs in this regards.

Best Regards,

Ameen