Alternative Products

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Alternative products are used to add similar or related products, like accessories or spare parts, and build relationships between the alternative products and the original product. These product relations are used for cross- and up-selling, or it can be also used to provide alternatives in case any of these products is out of stock.

In SAP use cross-selling to create alternative products.

Transaction Codes

• Create cross-selling (VB41)

• Change cross-selling (VB42)

• Display cross-selling (VB43)

In the webstore alternative products are shown on the product details page, under the general product information. You can add several groups of alternative products to one product. Each group can contain multiple products.

If there are more than four alternative products in a group, then alternative products will be shown in the carousel on the product details page. A customer can easily switch between alternative products using the buttons.

The alternative products are shown on the product details page using the Related products content element.

Add Alternative Products

Step 1: Choose the material determination type, which identifies how products relate to each other. You can use any condition type for cross selling available in your system.

You can add multiple alternative products per each type and show them on the product details page in the web store.

Step 2: In the first Material field, enter a product to which you want to add alternative products. In the second Material field, enter a product that should be used as alternative to the one specified in the first field.

Step 3: At the top, click Alternative materials. In the Create Alternative Products table, you can add more alternative products.

Alternative Items Mapping

The Alternative Items Mapping table in SAP ECC is used to group alternative items. For example, you can assemble alternative items into groups, like related products, accessories, spare parts and show them in the Sana web store.

In the main menu of the Sana add-on, click Webstore Configuration. In the Webstore Id field, select your webstore and click on the Change Webstore Settings button at the top. Expand the Products area.

The table below provides the description of the fields in the Alternative Items Mapping table.

Field	Description
Related Items Heading Text	Enter the type of alternative items. These can be alternatives, related items or mix & match. You can enter any name. You can create as many types of alternative items and map them to the SAP condition types as needed.
Material Condition Type	The SAP condition type that is mapped to the data type of alternative items. You can use any condition type for cross-selling available in your system.

Alternative items can be grouped using the above-mentioned types and shown in the webstore.

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