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Function documentation Bills of Material  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

AFS materials contain information about colors, sizes and qualities that are stored in grids and categories. Due to the data quantity, there are certain requirements for the bill of material that must be covered by AFS. These requirements are also used as a quantity structure for the product costing (see Definition of BOMs and Routings).

Features

In the area of production planning and control, AFS has developed specific enhancements for the material BOM.

Prepacks are also included in the material BOM. Prepacks and assortments are bills of material you use in Sales (see Prepacks and Assortments).

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Component Consumption at Grid Value Level

In AFS you can store the component consumption at grid level in the BOM. That means, for example, that you enter the fabric consumption in the color black for a black jacket.

If the header material and component material have different grids, you can maintain the corresponding component quantities for each header grid value using a tree structure. The first dimension of the header grid is the first level in the tree structure, the second dimension is the second level, and the third dimension is the third level. This way you can maintain the corresponding component quantities for these header dimensions in the grid below the tree display by selecting a specific header dimension which is represented by a node in the tree. With the tree structure you only have to enter a component quantity once which is valid for several header grid values.

You can find further information on this subject under Automatic Grid Value Assignment, Manual Grid Value Assignment, Deviation Quantities and Zero Quantities and Quantity Distribution Profile.

Note

Bills of material can consist of one or several levels. You can assign an SAP standard component to an AFS material. But you cannot assign AFS components to an SAP standard material.

Categories

You can include or exclude certain categories in the BOM. During the AFS MRP, the BOM is exploded using the category control.

Note

If you include or exclude categories in the BOM, make sure that the categories are assigned to you header material.

You can only include or exclude categories.

Example

You want to create a BOM for a jacket in quality 1 and for customer segment A. For this jacket you need the following components: Fabric, zipper and buttons.

You have assigned the following requirements categories to your jacket: 001A, 002B and 003C. You either exclude both categories 002B and 003C from the bill of material or you include category 001A in the BOM.

AFS Restrictions

     Multiple bills of material are not supported in AFS.

     AFS MRP does not consider follow-up materials.

     AFS MRP does not consider alternative items.

     AFS does not support intra materials.

     AFS only supports the direct procurement of BOM items that are described as stock items. However, non-stock items are not supported by AFS.

     Mass changes for AFS-specific data are not supported.

     AFS does not support the selection-ID for the alternative selection when exploding the BOM during MRP (Standard Customizing). Instead, AFS uses the alternative determination using the key for the BOM application that belongs to the order type (Standard Customizing).

     The AFS BOM does not support an interface to CAD.

     In the where-used list of components in other BOMs, AFS-specific data is not considered.

     In the modification parameters of the SAP standard Customizing you can define that changes of subitems should be documented. This function is not supported by AFS.

     BOM change documents for deviation quantities and categories - Essentially whenever you make any change to a field, change documents are created. For an AFS BOM if you make changes to the deviation quantity (either insert, change or delete) or to the categories (exclude/include) the change documents are not created. This is because the functionality to create the change documents are not enhanced for AFS BOM.

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