PGVariant (Product Group Variant)

A PGVariant is a specific variety or sub-type within a product group — used to differentiate articles at a finer granularity than the product group level alone allows. In an agricultural context, a PGVariant typically represents a crop variety (e.g. "Pannonikus" within the wheat product group) or a quality/grade designation (e.g. "Premium" within an oilseed group). This allows the system to track and report on variety-specific volumes, prices, and quality data without creating separate top-level product groups for each variety.

PGVariants are organized into variant groups (PGVariantGrp), which define which variants are valid for a given product group. Contract positions and transaction positions can reference a specific variant, enabling precise traceability from the field through the warehouse to the buyer. This is particularly important in markets where variety identification affects price premiums, certification eligibility, or seed multiplication accounting.