Converting With Result Preview (SAP Library - Product Designer for Controlling Engineering Processes)

Converting With Result Preview

Use

Before you convert an iPPE product structure to a material BOM, you can check in the result preview which iPPE objects have been copied to the material BOM.

You can check which BOM objects have been created and changed.
You can start processing of the BOM objects in the engineering workbench, for example adding documents or changing quantities.

Prerequisites

In the settings (settings tab page), you have set the Result Preview indicator.

Procedure

Start the conversion process.

The system decomposes the product structure and determines the conversion-relevant iPPE objects. You see the Result Preview screen.

Check the objects.

The following two screen areas tell you which objects have been extracted for conversion.

Screen area	Use
Hierarchical structure tree	The structure tree shows the BOM objects (BOM header and BOM item) that represent the iPPE objects. The hierarchical sequence corresponds to the iPPE structure. You can expand the structure node in the tree. One object (such as M1) can occur more than once in the structure, for example as a header material of a subordinate assembly and as an item. To see detail information on an object, select the object with a double-click, or choose for the selected object. On the All Objects tab page, and some other tab pages, the selected object is shown in a different color. You can check detail data, such as quantity data. An object that occurs more than once in the product structure is only shown once on the tab page.
Tab pages for detail information	Several tab pages list the BOM objects that represent the iPPE objects. On the individual tab pages, object lists are generated according to the following criteria: Object type ( Header and Item) Processing type ( Created and Changed) An object is only shown as created when it is first created. Once the object has been transferred to the material BOM, it has the status changed for all subsequent conversions. Each list shows the objects with errors first. You can change the sort sequence. To restore the original sort sequence, choose Original sort sequence. If you need information on how an object is linked to the structure, select the object and choose Identify object in tree. You can also use a double-click on the object to select it. In the hierarchical structure tree, the selected object is shown in a different color. If the selected object occurs more than once in the product structure, each use within the structure is shown.

Check the status.

The following overview contains all the possible statuses.

Status	Use
Conversion is possible	Conversion to the BOM object was successful.
Error	Conversion is not possible due to an error. The Object Log contains a message on the cause of the error. You cannot convert the iPPE object until the error has been resolved. If this error occurs for a BOM header, all subordinate BOM items have the status inherited error, right down to the lowest level. If a subordinate item contains an error, the BOM header is marked with this error.
Inherited error	Conversion is not possible due to an error in a higher-level BOM object. The object that caused the error has the status error.
Status error	Conversion is not possible due to the status of the component variant. You cannot convert the iPPE object until the error has been resolved. You have two options: In the iPPE workbench, set a status in the component variant that flags the component variant as released. Run the conversion without checking the status. To do this, in the settings, on tab page Variant, set the Ignore Status of Variant indicator.

Check the incorrect objects.

In the Log screen area below the tab pages, you can analyze the errors in two different logs:

If you want to display information on the extraction process, choose Extraction Log. The messages tell you, for example, which focus or filter was used to explode the iPPE structure.
If you want to display information on an incorrect object, choose Display Object Log on the tab page. These messages tell you, for example, about an incorrect status for the iPPE object.

You can display the log in a separate window, by choosing Display Log in Separate Window.

Check the objects for which conversion is possible. These objects are transferred to the material BOM.

Once you have checked the data, you can run the conversion.

If you want to save the BOM objects without further processing, choose Save.
If you want to process the BOM objects in the engineering workbench (EWB) before saving, choose To EWB. You can process the objects for which conversion is possible. Once you have finished processing, choose Save in the engineering workbench.
The conversion was run before processing in the EWB. For this reason, the changes are saved as local changes when you save.

Result

The system saves the iPPE data that has been extracted without errors (and changed in the engineering workbench) to the material BOM.