You use production versions to determine which alternative BOM is used with a routing to produce a material or create a master production schedule.
Production versions are used in sales & operations planning (SOP), material requirements planning, creating production orders as well as product costing to select the most suitable routing.
The material, for which you want to create a production version, must exist in the system.
For one material you can have several production versions for various validity periods and lot-size ranges.
You assign each production version to an alternative BOM and up to three work centers for different planning levels.
In detailed planning you determine which routing is used for materials requirements planning, product costing and in production orders.
In rate-based planning you determine which (rate) routing is used in repetitive manufacturing.
In preliminary planning you determine which rough-cut planning profile is used for sales and operations planning.
If you want to create capacity requirements during preliminary planning, you can use a routing instead of a rough-cut planning profile.
You edit production versions for a material in the material master record in the Work scheduling view (see the SAP Library Material Master (LO-MD-MM). There you can:
Create several production versions for one material/routing combination
Delete production versions