Material Assignment to Networks 

Use

If you only need a few material components in a project, you can assign these components to the network activities manually. In the case of materials with BOMs, you can explode the BOM level by level or all at once in the network activity.

If a material is not included in a BOM, you cannot assign it using BOM explosion or BOM transfer and therefore you must assign it manually.

In material assignment, you can specify the requirements date and the requirements quantity.

You can also specify negative quantities and as a result assign assembly items, which are assembled later in the network. The "requirements date" is then set automatically to the end of the activity, however the resulting goods movement is a material receipt from the network to stock.

You can use Execution Factors in network headers or activities to multiply the requirements quantities by constants.

If there are different options available for inventory management or procurement, a dialog box appears during component assignment, in which you can choose

• In which stock type the component in managed
• Whether advance procurement is possible
• Whether a directly procured component is a third party order and, in this case, if the component is delivered to the customer or the construction site