Determining the Structure Information about BOMs (SAP Library

Determining the Structure Information about BOMs

Use

Here the automatic completion of the structure with the help of BOMs is described in detail. The system carries out all the work steps.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Configuration Management, you determine for each individual life cycle phase, which BOM usages are planned. You select the work step Application control ® Define life cycle profile ® Life cycle phases ® Selected usages.

Process Flow

When you create a Baseline, the system carries out the following steps to complete the structure.

The system looks for BOMs for the controlled object as well as for the materials and documents in the structure that are flagged as relevant for Configuration. The system transfers the following BOMs into the structure of the Baseline:

BOMs that you have included in the structure of the configuration folder
Material BOMs with their usages that are planned in Customizing for the relevant life cycle phase
Document structures

If you have made the settings in Customizing, you then only have to manually copy a BOM into the structure of the configuration folder if you want to fix the BOM to another usage in the Baseline that is not planned in Customizing of the life cycle phase.

For each BOM, the system creates a list of all released change numbers with which you have processed.

If you have changed a BOM with reference to an ECR/ECO, then only the ECRs/ECOs that you have released up to the Baseline date are taken into consideration in the Baseline.

By clicking on in the structure of the Baseline, you can display this list.

The system transfers the objects of all BOM items (such as materials, documents) into the structure of the Baseline.

This happens irrespective of whether the object is flagged as relevant for Configuration Management or not. It does not mean that the object is also fixed.

For each material and document in a BOM item, the system checks whether it is flagged as relevant for configuration management.

If the object is flagged as relevant,

the system fixes the master record (material master record or document info record) provided all other prerequisites for the fixing are met ( see: Fixing Objects).

the system looks for all other objects (BOMs and object links). The process starts at step 2 again, but with one difference: in each subtree, the system only looks for BOMs with the same usage as in the superior BOM.

If the object is flagged as not relevant,

the object is not fixed
the search for other dependent objects stops

See also:

Fixing a BOM