Creating a Material BOM for Additional Usages 

Use

The different application areas within a company only process the item data that is relevant to their area. For this reason, you enter a BOM usage when you create a BOM. This usage defines which item statuses are allowed for all items in this BOM.

For example, if you create a BOM for the design department, data that is relevant to design is entered. Meanwhile, the sales department requires data that is relevant to sales and distribution. These two BOMs may contain different items. The system stores these different BOMs for a product under different internal BOM numbers.

Procedure

How to create a BOM for an additional usage:

  1. Choose Logistics ® Production ® Master data ® Bills of material ® Bill of material ® Material BOM ® Create.

    2. You see the Create material BOM: Initial screen.

  2. Enter the following data:

    3. – Material (which already has a BOM for a different usage)

    – Plant (in which you want the BOM to be valid)

    – Usage (for which no BOM exists yet)

    – Alternative (if required)

    – Data to define the validity period

  3. Confirm your entries.

    4. The item overview appears.

  4. Enter all the items you require.
  5. Confirm your entries.
  6. The BOM usage you selected may support some item status indicators as optional fields. If you want to process the indicator for several items, select these items and click .

    7. The item detail screen appears.

  7. Choose the Status/Long text tab page.
    8.

    See also:

    Status/Long Text

    – Process the indicators for the item status and new item data, as required.

    – Confirm your entries.

  8. Save your BOM.

You get the message:

BOM for material <material number> created

The system assigns a new internal BOM number.