Bill of Material Transfer 

Purpose

The bill of material transfer component simplifies the allocation of material components to network activities and keeps this information up-to-date.

If you allocate bill of material (BOM) items to a network activity manually by exploding the BOM and then change the BOM, you have to manually make these changes in the network as well.

Making the allocation and keeping this information up-to-date can be a lot of work, particularly if you

When you use the BOM transfer function to allocate individual BOM items to network activities, the system creates a logical link using a reference point. As opposed to the manual allocation of single components, you can automatically update subsequent BOM changes in the network activity.

For instance, if you change quantities or the material description in a BOM, You can these automatically transfer these changes to the network as well as to the corresponding purchase requisitions and reservations. You only have to regularly execute the allocation program to keep the data up-to-date during the design phase of your project.

Features

You can allocate items from several types of bills of material such as:

You can select from all networks in one project. You can select complete assemblies or single items; you can also allocate BOM items that do not have a reference point. You use various criteria to select the items, for instance by selecting according to BOM usage you can exclude certain assemblies from the selection.

You can use BOM transfer to assign text items or allocate material components with material number "0".

You can identify assemblies created in the network by using Assembly Items.

You can simulate allocations by executing the allocation program and then changing the results afterwards or by not saving the results or the changes.

Activities

After a BOM item has been successfully allocated to a network, the system will generate requirements if the requirements ahve been activated.

The system uses the execution factor in the network activity to determine the required amount. You can decide whether the system generates real requirements (purchase requisitions or reservations) or preliminary requirements (preliminary purchase requisitions or planned independent requirements).

For the allocation of a large number of components using BOM transfer, you can use priorities for stock types in Inventory Management . In this manner you can, for example, determine that components should be kept in sales order stock if possible or, if the component does not allow this, in plant stock.

This means that you can assign costs to another WBS element than that to which the activity is assigned. If the components are kept in project stock, this means that the stock segment changes.