Variant configuration with SAP
Mastering complex product variants easily and reliably
SAP variant configuration made easy
Addressing the specific needs of individual customers in a timely manner presents significant challenges for companies within the manufacturing sector, particularly regarding time, cost, and technology. We assist our customers by providing tailored solutions and consulting services to maximize the potential of their variant configuration with SAP. Our approach involves maintaining a comprehensive perspective on the entire digital configuration lifecycle, collaborating with our customers as equal partners. Transform your SAP variant configuration into an engaging purchasing experience for your customers with msg. We provide you with independent consultancy.
Why you can trust us:
- msg is the market leader in the DACH region in the area of SAP variant configuration
- We have over two decades of experience as an SAP partner
- We provide solutions that can be fully integrated within the SAP standard
- Our team comprises experts in variant configuration and solution architecture, dedicated to achieving outstanding results
- We deliver extensive strategy consulting, design, and implementation services throughout the digital configuration lifecycle
- Our expertise and user knowledge in SAP S/4HANA, SAP AVC, CPQ, and CRM integration spans multiple industries
Our service
We provide comprehensive consulting services throughout the entire variant lifecycle. Our expertise includes offering thorough guidance on your SAP VC architecture, as well as assessing your processes, data, and users.
We are pleased to assist you with tailored solutions that align with your specific needs.
Are you considering the implementation of SAP variant configuration within your organization, or are you currently using it?
We offer guidance in the following areas
- LO-VC (classic SAP variant configuration)
- AVC (Advanced Variant Configuration)
- CPQ (SAP Configure Price Quote)
- Transition/transformation
Drawing on all industry-relevant best practices and the latest technologies, we analyze and develop your digitalization strategy.
As a service partner, we also offer you support after successful system implementation: We inform you about changes and updates and help you implement new software updates. Continuous quality assurance is our top priority.
Overview of our msg.Variant product family:
- msg.Variant Calculation
- msg.Variant CoFE
- msg.Variant Create
- msg.Variant Master Data
- msg.Variant Modeling
You can find more information on the individual products further down on this page
You would like...
... shorter lead times?
... Independence from rules experts?
... less coordination effort between departments?
... faster time-to-market?
... more customer satisfaction?
... lower repair and reworking costs?
The solution: Master data and process management with msg.Variant
SAP variant configuration requires a wide variety of techniques in master data maintenance and imposes specific demands on the related processes. With msg.Variant, we offer an effective solution to address these challenges. This industry-neutral solution includes a comprehensive suite of modules designed to optimize the SAP standard.
Our msg.Variant add-ons for your use case
msg.Variant Modeling addresses the intricacies associated with AVC, transforming dependencies into code. This process accelerates the integration of your master data into the system and expedites the introduction of your products to the market.
Benefits:
- Data maintenance in specialist departments: No advanced expertise necessary
- Accelerated master data maintenance
- Cloud native development: Quick, easy and release-secure
- Creation and maintenance of object dependencies in a modern, cloud-based no code modeling environment
msg.Variant Create facilitates the swift and reliable creation of material variants (MV). Consequently, the creation process for material variants can be both automated and expedited.
Benefits:
- Reduction of up to 99% in the effort needed to create material variants
- Generate and use new variants directly during the quotation or order entry phases
- Standardized creation process governed by product configuration rules
- All required process steps are monitored in a simple workflow including monitor program
- Update and enhance existing material variants
- Rule-based text generation
msg.CoFE (Configuration Frontend), provides your sales department with a simplified configuration experience through its user-friendly and contemporary interface.
Benefits:
- Direct access to models within the SAP backend, eliminating unnecessary data duplication
- Personalized access to the frontend via an SAP document or an external shopping cart feature
- Integration of multiple 3D visualizations that offer live rendering of the configured product
- Real-time pricing calculations for specific valuations, ensuring accurate information for customers
- Product-specific administration interface that enables customized presentation of features, images, and texts
With msg.Variant Calculation, msg provides an SAP-certified tool for calculating manufacturing costs with system support. Variant conditions can be defined easily and created and maintained as master data and condition records in the system.
Benefits:
- Simplification of master data updating and maintenance via tabular entry
- Maintenance via tabular entry
- Cost savings by simplification of processes
- No know-how transfer between different departments necessary, the specialist department can maintain its data itself
What our customers say (selection)
"The add-on supplied by msg enabled us to deliver the necessary material masters both efficiently and on time during a crucial stage of our ambitious project timeline. This was not a given during the initial wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. Even throughout the following hypercare phase, we were always able to rely on msg's prompt support."
Marian Jesse, Global Key User Production, SWISS KRONO
“Even seemingly simple and standardized products can attain an unforeseen degree of complexity through variant configuration, thereby enabling the provision of a diverse range of products derived from a modular system consisting of a limited number of components. Fast and with the best service. The new system incorporating the solution from msg has established a robust technological framework.”
Guido Rudolph, Head of Product Configuration, Busch Vacuum Solutions
"It is evident that we will rely on the configurator indefinitely. We gain advantages from a level of professionalism, competence, and expertise that is unmatched within our competitive landscape. Moving forward, our efforts will be directed towards the integration of additional products into the configurator and its international deployment."
Ansgar Jost, Director of Engineered Solutions, DENIOS AG
Product tour
msg.Variant CoFE with 3D Integration
msg.Variant CoFE with 3D Integration
msg.Variant CoFE with 3D Integration
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