Entering a Sales Order 

Prerequisites

If you are working with sales order BOMs for configurable materials, you can define, in the configuration profile for the configurable material, whether characteristic value assignment for lower-level components for the sales order BOM is possible from the sales order.

If you wish to carry out characteristic value assignment for lower-level components in the sales order, you need to select the indicator Maintenance in order allowed in the configuration profile for the material. This means it is possible to go from the sales order to maintaining sales order BOMs, via the Engineering button, in order to carry out characteristic value assignment for lower-level components here.

It is not possible to process the sales order BOM in the sales order.

Process Flow

Characteristic Value Assignment for Lower-Level Components not Allowed in the Sales Order

  1. Enter a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item (see also Item Categories for Configurable Materials).

    2. You can find out how to create a sales order by reading the Sales document in the section Create Sales Order.

  2. You will get to the characteristic value assignment screen by assigning characteristic values for the material characteristics. Depending on the characteristic value, the object dependancies are evaluated for the configuration profile, the characteristics and characteristic values.
  3. The bill of material is not exploded in the sales order. Lower-level configurable materials cannot be assigned characteristic values in the sales order.
  4. The header material is displayed as an order item in the sales order.
  5. Once you have saved the sales order, you can process the bill of material for the sales order, using the function Bill of Material ® Order BOM ® Maintain (Multi-Level) in the bill of material menu. As a result, the assignment of characteristic values for the material from the sales order can only be displayed, and not changed.

Characteristic Value Assignment for Lower-Level Components Allowed in Sales Order

  1. Enter a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item (see also Item Categories for Configurable Materials).

You can find out how to create a sales order by reading the Sales document in the section Create Sales Order.
  1. You will get to the characteristic value assignment screen by assigning characteristic values for the material characteristics. Depending on the characteristic value, the object dependancies are evaluated for the configuration profile, the characteristics and characteristic values.
  1. Choose the Engineering button, in order to process the bill of material.
  1. Save your changes.

The bill of material is stored outcome-oriented.
  1. Choose the Sales button, in order to get back to the sales order.

Changes, which you make when valuating the material, can have effects on the order BOM.
  1. The header material appears as an order item in the sales order.