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 Process: Order BOM

Purpose

You use this processing type if you want to make customer-specific changes to the BOM of a material that you configure in the sales order. In the sales order, you assign values to the characteristics of the header material, but the BOM is not exploded in the sales order.

The BOM components that match the values in the sales order are not determined until you call a special processing function. Subordinate configurable materials can be configured in this function, and you can make order-specific changes to the BOM.

There are two types of order BOMs:

  • The result-oriented order BOM saves the configured BOM with the manual changes.

  • The knowledge-based order BOM saves the super BOM with all manual changes and dependencies, not the configured BOM. When you explode the BOM, the dependencies are processed dynamically, and only the selected items are displayed.

    Caution Caution

    If you change the characteristic values assigned to the material in transaction VA01, VA02, or CU51, this may affect the order BOM.

    End of the caution.

Prerequisites

The configuration profile of the configurable material has the Process: Order BOM indicator selected, with a single-level or multilevel BOM explosion.

Process Flow

Maintenance of Order BOM not Allowed in Sales Order

  1. Create a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item.

  2. You see the configuration editor, where you assign values to the characteristics of the header material. As you enter characteristic values, dependencies for the characteristics and values are processed.

    The BOM is not exploded in the sales order. You cannot assign values to subordinate configurable materials in the sales order.

    The header material appears as a sales order item.

  3. Once you have saved the sales order, you can process the BOM for the sales order by choosing Start of the navigation path Bill of Material Next navigation step Order BOM Next navigation step Maintain Multilevel End of the navigation path from the bills of material menu. The values assigned to the material in the sales order are displayed and cannot be changed.

Maintenance of Order BOM Allowed in Sales Order

You can only use this function if Result-Oriented BOM is set in the configuration profile.

  1. Create a sales order and enter the configurable material as an order item.

  2. You see the configuration editor, where you assign values to the characteristics of the material. As you enter characteristic values, dependencies for the characteristics and values are processed.

  3. Choose Engineering to process the order BOM:

    • You can assign values to subordinate configurable materials or change values already assigned.

    • Exit configuration and return to the sales order by choosing Sales.

      An order BOM is not created.

  4. The header material is shown in the sales order as an order item.

Result

In material requirements planning (MRP), requirements are determined for the order item. To ensure that MRP checks whether a material has an order BOM, set the Sales Order BOM indicator in Customizing by choosing Start of the navigation path Planning Next navigation step BOM Explosion/Routing Determination Next navigation step Define BOM Explosion Control. End of the navigation path

See also:

For more information on maintaining order BOMs with and without variant configuration, together with the preceding and subsequent processes, see the SAP Library Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Production Planning and Control (PP) Next navigation step Basic Data (PP-BD) Next navigation step Order BOMs (PP-BD-BOM). End of the navigation path

The following sections deal with maintenance of order BOMs with variant configuration:

Order BOMs for Variant Configuration

Settings in the Configuration Profile

Creating a Knowledge-Based Order BOM

Creating a Result-Oriented Order BOM

Instantiating Configurable Materials

Fixing Configurable Assemblies