Selection variant maintenance in SAP

Selection variant is a very commonly used feature in SAP to save set of input values for a selection screen of a program. You can execute the program easily by calling the relevant variant. Selected variant will contain all necessary values for your selection criteria.

For example, if you run a report in SAP, you will first get a selection screen, where you need to maintain the selection criteria to filter data out of SAP. If you have to fill same set of data every time you execute this report, then you can save those values as a variant.

And also similar setup is significantly used in large scale SAP customer to execute AFS allocation run, delivery note creation, etc in the background mode.

These variants can be used both dialog mode (Online) and background execution. 

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Variant Maintenance in SAP