Order Browser 

Definition

Navigation tool used to display the multi-level BOM of a material entered in a sales order item.

Use

You use the order browser when you, as a make-to-order manufacturer, work with order BOMs. After you have created a sales order and, if required, executed variant configuration, it is necessary to technically post-process the BOMs. The changes that you carry out during this process are only valid for this sales order.

In a central screen you get an overview of the current processing status of a multi-level BOM for a sales order item and you can navigate to the process and evaluation functions for order BOMs.

Structure

In the order browser, the multi-level BOM is displayed similarly to in the product structure browser. This means you see an overview tree, whose branches you can show and hide. As opposed to the product structure browser, in the overview tree of the order browser, only the BOM headers and items are displayed.

In the overview tree, the whole multi-level BOM for a sales order item is displayed. If an assembly was not saved as order-specific, the material BOM is displayed at the appropriate point.

In the order browser you process both configurable and non-configurable order BOMs. However, configurable order BOMs are only displayed if you have selected result-orientated in the configuration profile.

Detached order assemblies are not displayed in the overview tree. You can see an overview of the detached order assemblies for a sales order item in order analysis.