You can organize BOM processing in your company to suit the way your company is structured. It is often the case that basic data that is relevant to all applications is created in a central department, then application-specific data is added using the change function.

You can structure authorizations to reflect your organization. The 4 authorization objects for defining access authorizations are assigned to object class Production planning.

The following authorization objects are defined for maintaining BOMs:

The following table shows which functions check which authorization objects.

The documentation assumes that the user has unrestricted authorization for all functions.