Allocating BOM Items using BOM Transfer

Allocating BOM Items using BOM Transfer

Purpose

If you use bill of material (BOM) transfer to allocate BOM items to a network activity, subsequent changes in the BOM are automatically updated in the network.

You can only allocate reference points for items in a bill of material, not for the component in the header. You can only allocate such components as Assembly Items

You cannot allocate BOM items to a standard network using reference points. You can however enter reference points in the data fields which have been defined for this purpose, so that when you use this standard network to create an operative network the system also copies the reference points.

During allocation using reference points, the system ignores material components that you have already manually allocated to a network activity. These material components do not appear in the list of allocations.

Prerequisites

To use BOM transfer, one of the following prerequisites must be met for the activities or the network.

All the network activities, to which you want to allocate components, must be assigned to a WBS element. You can use different WBS elements within a project. The system ignores the WBS assignment of the network header. In Transfer Control, you can allocate individual material components to other WBS elements (than the WBS element in the network header).

The network must be assigned to a sales order.

Process Flow

You define the data fields in the BOM items and the network activity to be used as reference points. These data fields can have different field names, but they must have the same structure.

In general you only do this once, the first time you want to use BOM transfer. Hereafter you should not need to change the designation of the data fields again.

You maintain the reference point in the BOM item.

You maintain the reference point in the network activity.

The reference point in the BOM item must be the same as the reference point in the network activity, to which you want to allocate the BOM item. Generic entries are allowed.

You enter the selection criteria and execute the BOM transfer allocation program.

After this you can allocate manually or change existing allocations.

Result

The BOM items and the activities are linked logically.

For information about how changes to BOMs affect the network, if you execute the allocation again, see The Effects of Changes in Bills of Material and BOM Transfer.