Synchronization of Engineering BOM with Manufacturing BOM

Technical Data
Technical Name of the Business Function	/PLMU/GSS_E2M
Type of Business Function	Enterprise Business Function
Available As Of	SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	PLM Core
Application Component	PLM Web User Interface (PLM-WUI)
Required Business Function	PLM Web User Interface: (/PLMU/WEB_UI)

With this business function, you synchronize an engineering bill of material (EBOM) and a manufacturing bill of material (MBOM).

This enables you to reduce the time required to transfer engineering data to production, increase the quality of the information for production, reduce the number of errors when entering data for production, and support the reconciliation of data from the engineering BOM and manufacturing BOM.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component	Component	Is Needed Only for the Following Features
Software component	SAP_APPL 605, EA-IPPE 405, PLM WUI 7.1

Features

The synchronization contains the following functions:

Planning of the manufacturing BOMs based on an engineering BOM
Initial handover of an engineering BOM to a manufacturing BOM
Continuous adjustment and monitoring of changes to engineering and manufacturing BOMs
Full integration in change management (LO-ECH)
Full integration in the PLM Web user interface
Taking the status of change states into account
Decoupling of engineering and manufacturing BOMs from Guided Structure Synchronization (GSS)
Saving intended structural changes to the proposed manufacturing BOM and taking them into account in later synchronizations