Online Course
Modeling Products for Variant Configuration in SAP S/4HANA: Best Practices for LO-VC and AVC
with Lars Frerichs
05/29/2026 – 06/12/2026
The course in detail:
In the complex world of variant configuration, best practices never lose their value. In this long-awaited course, you’ll dive into the essential modeling techniques that support both classic LO-VC and AVC with SAP S/4HANA! Get your model up and running by mastering the relationship between its constituent parts. See how your model interacts with pricing, sales order processing, and manufacturing processes. Explore advanced modeling topics—integration with e-commerce and CPQ tools, configurator documentation, engineering change management, and the use of AI. With guidance on governance and collaboration, the expert-tested best practices in this comprehensive course will elevate your VC setup—whether you’re optimizing classic LO-VC or exploring SAP’s newest tool, advanced variant configuration!
What you'll learn:
- Apply modern modeling best practices to your VC setup
- Model configurable products and master VC dependencies and logic in SAP S/4HANA
- Understand model integration with pricing, sales, order processing, and production planning
- Integrate with CPQ and e-commerce platforms
- Perform essential housekeeping activities to maintain your models
- Explore AVC syntax and modeling differences and plan your transition
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 3:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this Variant Configuration course suitable for?
- Functional consultants (SD/MM/PP)
- VC modelers and product modelers
- Solution and enterprise architects
- Manufacturing and engineering professionals
- VC governance teams and process owners
Prerequisite: Attendees should have a basic understanding of SAP logistics processes (MM, SD, or PP) and exposure to material master data, BOMs, or sales order processing. Some familiarity with logic or decision-making processes is helpful, especially for modeling dependencies. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These Variant Configuration topics will be covered in this course:
- Classification system
- Basic modeling
- Configuration profile
- Dependencies
- Variant tables
- Pricing, sales order processing, and manufacturing
- Material variants
- Online configurators
- Engineering change management
- Migration to AVC
- Governance process and collaboration
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Online Courses
Classification, Configuration Profiles, Dependencies, and Variant Tables
Construct your configurable product using materials, BOMs, and routings. After you create and assign configuration profiles to materials, link classification data, and set key control parameters, you’ll learn how to choose dependency types and replace hard-coded rules with data-driven logic using variant tables.
Topics:
- Classification system
- Basic modeling
- Configuration profile
- Dependencies
- Variant tables
- Testing configurations
Variant Configuration in Pricing, Sales Order Processing, and Manufacturing
Deploy strategies to keep your configuration models clean, consistent, and aligned with sales, engineering, and production!
Topics:
- Variant pricing logic
- Dependency-based price control
- Sales documents
- Sales BOMs vs. manufacturing BOMs
- Make-to-order production
- Material variants
- Material requirements planning (MRP)
Configurators, ECM, and Migration to AVC
Apply best practices for using e-commerce and CPQ tools, specifying and documenting configurators, performing engineering change management, and incorporating AI into your VC processes. Prepare your LO-VC system for AVC!
Topics:
- CPQ and e-commerce platforms
- KB versions, generation, and compression
- IPC delta list
- Configurator specification and documentation
- Engineering change management (ECM)
- AI in variant configuration
- Migration to AVC
- Governance process and collaboration
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Your Expert
Lars Frerichs is a senior consultant specializing in variant configuration, business process optimization, and SAP S/4HANA implementations. His extensive career spans leadership roles across the mechanical, high-tech, and manufacturing industries in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. From leading global rollouts of SAP e-commerce and variant configuration to streamlining post-implementation processes and organizational change, he has consistently delivered value by aligning business goals with IT architecture. Adept at facilitating cross-functional workshops, driving process governance, and implementing scalable solutions, Lars is known for turning complex challenges into actionable strategies in both greenfield and brownfield SAP projects.
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