Variants are different versions of a product that are distinguished by specific attributes, such as color, size, and type.

You can manage variants under the product. A product can have one or more variants. If your product has no variants, it means that the product itself is a variant, so one variant will always be created. If you have enabled multiple variants, you can assign Variant Codes (SKU), define Min/Max limits, specify Vendors, and set Pricing (Buy/Sales Price lists) for each variant.

You might create a table in various sizes and colors, which would be its variants. For instance, variants may include "Large White Table," "Small White Table," "Small Black Table," and so on.

Using variants makes managing similar items together much easier:

Creating variants using Brahmin Solutions Variants Configuration is much easier and faster than creating separate products for each variant;

You can create and change the Bill of Materials and Manufacturing Operations centrally for all product variants. At the same time, you can also create variant-specific BOMs.

Example: You have a bike manufacturing business, which offers 15 different variants of the product. There are 5 colors and 3 types of bikes, and each variant requires a specific set of materials. One of these materials is the seat, which is included in the product recipe for all variants. You want to replace the current seat with a new sporty one. If you have created separate product recipes for all 15 variants, you will need to manually change the recipe for each of them. However, if you have used variants, you can simply change the recipe for the parent product, and the recipe for all the variants will be updated automatically.