Creating Table-based Object Dependencies Made Easy

By Manfred Böhm and Manfred Münch, SAP AG

Introduction

During the most recent CWG meetings a fairly large group of modeling experts joined the workshops on constraint based modeling. The expert discussions reconfirmed that variant tables provide powerful and flexible means to design a robust product model that is easy to maintain and understand. The meaning of a variant table is part of general knowledge - reading and updating a variant table does not require special modeling skills.