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Purpose

The bill of material transfer component makes it easier for you to assign material components to network activities and keep this information up-to-date.

If you assign bill of material (BOM) items to a network activity manually by exploding the BOM and then change the BOM, you have to manually make these changes in the network as well.

Making the assignment and keeping this information up-to-date can be a lot of work, particularly if you

When you use the BOM transfer function to assign individual BOM items to network activities, the system creates a logical link using a reference point. Unlike the manual assignment of single components, you can automatically update subsequent BOM changes in the network activity.

For instance, if you change quantities or the material description in a BOM, you can automatically transfer these changes to the network as well as to the corresponding purchase requisitions and reservations. You only have to execute the assignment program regularly to keep the data up-to-date during the design phase of your project.

Features

You can assign items from several types of bills of material such as:

For more details on sales order BOMs, refer to Structure link Order BOM

WBS BOMs are mainly used together with Structure link production lots. They are bills of material that are valid only for a particular WBS element. For information on how to create WBS BOMs, refer to Structure link Creating Single-Level Work Breakdown Structure BOM or Structure link Creating Multi-Level Work Breakdown Structure BOMs. (Note that if you want to use WBS BOMs with the Project System, it is not necessary to create production lots)

You can select activities from all the networks in a project. You can select complete assemblies or single items; you can also assign BOM items that do not have a reference point. You use various criteria to select the items, for instance by selecting according to BOM usage you can exclude certain assemblies from the selection.

You can use BOM transfer to assign text items or assign material components with material number "0".

You can use assembly items to identify assemblies created in the network.

You can simulate assignments by running the assignment program, and then changing the results afterwards or not saving the results or the changes.

Activities

After a BOM item has been successfully assigned to a network, the system generates requirements if the requirements have been activated.

The system uses the execution factor in the network activity to determine the required amount. You can decide whether the system generates real requirements (purchase requisitions or reservations) or preliminary requirements (preliminary purchase requisitions or planned independent requirements).

For the assignment of a large number of components using BOM transfer, you can use priorities for stock types in inventory management . In this manner you can, for example, determine that components should be managed in sales order stock if possible or, if the component does not allow this, in plant stock.

This means that you can assign costs to another WBS element than that to which the activity is assigned. If the components are kept in project stock, the stock segment changes.

 

 

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