Transferring Bills of Material Manually (SAP Library

Transferring Bills of Material Manually

Prerequisites

See Bill of Material Transfer, Prerequisites.

For manual transfer, you must have set the environment parameter BOMBOS_WL_DIALOG in Customizing for Product Safety in the section Bill of Material Transfer in the IMG activity Specify Environment Parameters and Conditions.

Note

Using the environment parameter BOMBOS_WL_DIALOG you can choose whether:

The display of the worklist is skipped and the composition is generated automatically

The bills of material (BOMs) are displayed in the worklist. You decide yourself whether a composition should be generated.

Procedure

In the Product Safety menu, choose Data transfer ® Bill of material ® Worklist.

The Display Worklist screen appears.

The worklist is displayed as a tree with the following structure:

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The following key sequence is displayed for the bill of material: material number - plant - usage - alternative.

You can get detailed information by clicking the BOM or specification.

Choose to display the meaning of the icons.

Choose to switch to editing mode.

Assigning a Missing Specification-Material Assignment

Select the specification for which the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

icon is displayed.

The system displays the Specification data group box with the Specification field.

Use the input help to select the specification to which the BOM material is to be assigned.

Choose Confirm to transfer the specification to the worklist.

Note

If you do not assign a specification, the SAP System creates a specification during generation.

Resetting an Error Entry

Select the BOM for which the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

icon is displayed.

Choose

If the error is displayed because the material is assigned to a number of specifications, you can:

Assign a specification as described above
Alternatively, allow the system to create a new specification.

Generating the Composition

Select the BOMs for which the composition is to be generated.

Choose

Choose Log to display the log.

When you exit the worklist, you must save if you want the changes to be transferred.

Result

The composition is generated if the BOM items

Match the check criteria you defined in Customizing
Are each assigned uniquely to a specification

The specification key is displayed in the worklist as a branch with all its components and the calculated proportions. The specification is assigned the identifier NUM BOM (material number, plant, usage, alternative).

See also Bill of Material Transfer, Prerequisites.