Solution quotations in SAP S/4HANA are uniquely designed to offer customers a complex combination of different item types (e.g., physical products, services, subscriptions) as a single, integrated package. This is structured as a "product bundle," which is a hierarchical arrangement with a main item representing the solution and various sub-items for its components. While other sales documents can group items using Bills of Material (BOMs), the dedicated structure and processing logic for these mixed-item product bundles are a distinctive and core feature of the solution quotation process in the standard SAP delivery.

A. Using product proposals: Product proposals (cross-selling/up-selling) are a standard Sales and Distribution (SD) function available in multiple sales documents, including standard quotations and sales orders.

B. Using configurable products: Variant configuration, which allows for the use of configurable products, is a standard capability that can be utilized in regular sales quotations and sales orders.

D. Determining service contracts: Service contracts can be generated from various sales documents that contain service-relevant items, not exclusively from solution quotations.

1. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Solution Quotations": "You can use this process to create a solution quotation to offer your customer a combination of different product types

such as tangible products and services

in a single quotation... The solution quotation supports a hierarchical structure of items. This allows you to structure the items in the quotation and to form packages of items." This directly supports the concept of bundling as a core feature.

2. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Product Bundles in Sales": "Product bundles are used in solution quotations to group multiple items that are sold together as a package. A product bundle consists of a bundle main item and one or more component items." This documentation explicitly links the "product bundle" feature to solution quotations.

3. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Sales Quotation": The documentation for standard sales quotations (document type QT) does not mention the specific hierarchical bundling feature designed for combining sales

service

and subscription items in the same structured way as a solution quotation

highlighting the uniqueness of this feature in the latter.