Sir I work in an automobile company and I want to know about the Material Type KMAT soc an you please tell me the details for the same

Well the KMAT is material type that used to create configurable materials.

It is not mandatory to use the KMAT material type.

A custom material type can be used for configurable materials.


The KMAT material type shall used for variant configuration scenario

This material type is used for representing the different variants say for example: A Car in an automobile industry or a computer.


In the KMAT default setting for material is configurable shall be set when creating the material in the Basic Data to view.


Variant configuration used to manufacturing complex products in which customer determines the features of the product. Objective of variant configuration is to react quickly to customers’ requirements.

Benefits of VC

Able to react more flexible to customer demands.

Increase Information exchange between sales, engineering and production

No need to Create separate material master for each variant combination.

Super BOM and Super Routing is enough for representing all possible Variants and
Operations.