Defining the Item Status with the BOM Usage

By defining the BOM usage (Customizing for Bills of material, step Define BOM usages), each company determines which item statuses can and cannot be set.

The item status covers a range of indicators that can be entered for BOM items, such as relevant to engineering , relevant to production , relevant to costing, and so on.

These item status indicators control:

  • Processing of the BOM in related application areas.

    The indicators define whether further processing is required, allowed, or not allowed. If processing in an application area is supported, you can maintain application-specific data for the items. For example, only items that are relevant to production are copied to a production order.

  • The selection of items for BOM explosion

    See also:

    Restricting the View for BOM Explosion

Item Status Indicators

You can define indicators as optional fields for a BOM usage. This means that you can set these indicators for one item in a BOM and not for another item.

In Customizing for Production, you define application areas for which BOM items are relevant by using the following indicators:

  • Item relevant to production

  • Item relevant to engineering

  • Item relevant to plant maintenance

  • Item relevant to sales and distribution

  • Item relevant to costing

  • Spare part

See also:

Item status

Item Status Example

The following table shows an example of indicators set for the BOM usage Design.

Item statuses for BOM usageDesign

Indicator

Maintenance

Item relevant to engineering

must be maintained

Item relevant to production

Spare part

can be maintained

Item relevant to plant maintenance

Item relevant to sales and distribution

cannot be maintained

Note Note

Before you can enter PM structure elements and items relevant to plant maintenance in functional location BOMs and equipment BOMs, you need to choose a BOM usage that supports plant maintenance items.

End of the note.

Each area (for example, production or design) maintains a separate BOM with a separate usage. If you create several BOMs for one material with different usages, the system saves each BOM usage under a separate internal BOM number.

Authorizations for BOMs are defined per BOM usage.

BOM Usages for a Material: Example

The following graphic shows how BOMs with different usages are stored for one material (men’s racing bicycle PP-MRB01).