Settings for Bill of Material Selection

You can make the following settings for bill of material selection:

You specify how the bill of material selection is to take place in the material master in the field Alternative selection. The bill of material can be selected by:

If the selection is to take place using the production version then you must maintain the production versions and assign a bill of material alternative to each of these.

To maintain the material master choose  Logistics Production Master data Material master.

The bill of material usage is assigned to an order type. It groups together various parameters. The bill of material usage controls whether, for example, the bill of material is selected by date or by production version. You can also control for each application which bill of material status is checked during bill of material selection. For production orders you would get the system to check, for example, the status Released for order.

You maintain bill of material usage in Customizing for Shop Floor Control by choosing  Operations Bill of Material Selection Define Usages.

You assign bill of material usage to an order type in Customizing for Shop Floor Control by choosing  Master data Order Define Order Type-Dependent Parameters .

You can specify a selection priority according to which bills of material are selected with different usages. This priority is used if several bills of material with different usages exist for one material (for example, production BOM and engineering/design BOM).

The selection priorities are assigned to the individual bill of material application and define the priorities used to determine the bill of material usages during bill of material selection.

To maintain the data for the selection priority, choose  Operations Bill of Material Selection Define Priorities for BOM Usages in Customizing for Shop Floor Control .

If bill of material selection takes place according to the material master by date then you must maintain the validity periods for the bill of material alternatives.

You maintain the data for alternative selection in Customizing for Shop Floor Control, by choosing  Operations Bill of Material Selection Define Alternative Determination for Multiple BOMs.