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Procedure documentation Creating an Item (Group Maintenance)  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You use this procedure if you want to create an item and also work with group maintenance.

Note

If you work without group maintenance use the Creating an item procedure instead.

Group maintenance is activated in Customizing the Engineering Workbench under Editing working areas. Other information for checking whether you work with or without group maintenance can be found under Group maintenance.

Prerequisites

You have already created the BOM header for the bill of material in which you want to create the item. You have also already created the material to which you want to assign the item that you are creating. You work with group maintenance.

Procedure

  1. Call up the EWB: Items overview group maintenance screen.
  1. In the context, enter the identifying data for the bill of material in which you want to create the item. For the item select whether

In this case also enter the BOM alternative.

In this case do not enter the BOM alternative.

Note

If you have not created the material to which you want to assign the item that you are creating, then the system automatically calls up the EWB: Create material in plant <plant for the context-material> dialog box in the material master where you then create the material.
  1. In the View screen area, choose the radio button
  1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text. If the EWB: Process using dialog box appears, you have to enter either a key date or a change number.

The system provides input lines beneath the objects that are displayed in the overview. The system proposes default values in certain columns.
  1. Enter the data for the item you want to create in one of the empty fields and click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The system then creates the copied item and its assignment(s) in your worklist and locks the item for other users. You can see this from the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text lock symbol. If you have not entered an item ID for your item, the system automatically generates one.
  1. Save your data.

Result

The system creates the item and its assignment(s) in the database.