Editing Bills of Material (SAP Library - Master Recipes (PP-PI-MD))

Editing Bills of Material

Use

You use this procedure to edit alternative bills of material (BOM) for the master recipe header materials in the master recipe itself.

If you have not yet edited a BOM from within a master recipe, you can also edit it in BOM management. Note, however, that the master recipe does not support the parameter effectivity of engineering change management (see Engineering Change Management and Recipe Approval). For this reason, you may only use change numbers with date validity for BOMs that you want to use in master recipes.

Prerequisites

A production version exists for the header material and the alternative BOM you want to edit has been assigned to the recipe in this production version.

If the BOM has already been changed with a change number, you must enter a change number on the initial screen for recipe editing. Otherwise, you cannot change the BOM.

If you have just edited the material list or bill of material of another production version in the master recipe, you must access the recipe group again. For technical reasons, you can only display or edit the material data for one production version in a transaction call.

Procedure

Go to the material list of your master recipe (Materials tab).

If more than one header material and/or production version exists for your recipe, select the material or production version whose alternative BOM you want to edit.

Depending on whether you edit a new or an existing alternative BOM, the system takes you to:

The initial screen for creating alternative BOMs
The material list of the recipe

Depending on the function you want to carry out, proceed as follows:

Function	Procedure
Create an alternative BOM	Choose on the initial screen.
Change an alternative BOM	Choose BOM in the material list.

The item overview of the BOM appears.

Enter the relevant data for the bill of material.

For more information on how to do this, see the SAP Library Bills of Material Guide (PP-BD-BOM), section Steps in Creating a Simple Material BOM and Changing a Material BOM.

Go back to the master recipe.

The system saves the BOM when you save the master recipe.