Empties and Full Products in S/4HANA Product Master Application

In the standard SAP Retail system, you create empties as single articles of article type Empties (Retail) . The full product can belong to the following article types:

Single articles

Variant of a generic article

The corresponding full product must not belong to the article type Empties (Retail).

The “With empties BOM” indicator must be set for the full product.

As of SAP S/4HANA 1709, you can create a full product with Empties BOM in the Product Master Application. Unlike in the classical transactions, the user is allowed to create/edit/delete multiple BOM alternatives in the same draft. The user is allowed to add/edit/delete components from multiple alternatives also in the same.