Bills of Material: New BOM Categories and Changes (SAP Library

Bills of Material: New BOM Categories and Changes in the Area of Validity

Description

You can now also maintain bills of material for the following SAP objects:

Document info record -> Document structure

You can enter related documents in a document structure. The bill of material is created in a document info record and contains document items (such as, technical drawings, photographs, papers) as well as text items.

These related documents can be contained as a sub-component in other bills of material (for example, material BOM, equipment BOM).

Document items which have a bill of material (such as, material components) are marked by the indicator: Assembly available.

For a document structure, you can maintain variant document structures (variant BOMs) which you can allocate to a common BOM group. Since no area of validity is maintained for documents, no plant allocation is provided for this BOM category.

Functional location -> Functional location BOM

In this bill of material, you group together the elements of a technical structure (for example, a functional unit in entire asset). The functionality of the bills of material for functional locations corresponds to that of the equipment.

So that you can enter PM structure elements or items relevant to plant maintenance for this bill of material, you must create the bill of material with a usage which provides items relevant to plant maintenance.

For a functional location BOM, you can maintain variant BOMs which can allocate you to a common BOM group. Furthermore, you can allocate the functional location BOM to other plants.

Standard object -> Standard BOM

In this bill of material, you enter the components for a model object (standard object) whose structure can be copied to several objects.
For a standard object, no master record is maintained in the SAP System.

The components can be allocated to the operations of a non-project-related library network.

For a standard object, you can only maintain simple BOMs; BOM groups (variant BOMs or multiple BOMs) as well as plant allocations are not defined.

Sales order BOM

If you enter a sales document item for a sales order to a standard product (configurable material), the bill of material of the standard product is configured directly in the sales order according to special customer specifications.

The system stores this sales order BOM under the number of the sales document, the sales document item and the material.

In the "BOM maintenance" area, you can only display this sales order BOM. If you want to change this sales order BOM, you must reconfigure the bill of material during the sales order processing.

To configure the bill of material of the standard product, the following requirements must be met:

You must create the configuration parameters for the configuration. In the BOM menu, choose Environment -> Var. configuration -> Configurable object Create.

Allocate one or more classes, whose class types are defined for the configuration of variants, to the material master record of the standard product (indicator: Only variant configuration in the Implementation Guide "Class Type"). In this way, you link the standard product to the characteristics of the classes.

On the detail screen for the class, you determine control parameters and select the bill of material; In this case, you choose the order BOM.

As of this release, you can maintain a Group BOM for a material. Due to the group BOM, the Plant field entry has changed.

You create the group BOM without reference to a plant (value Blank ). No plant check occurs for the materials of a group BOM. This is useful, if an engineer maintains a bill of material in the engineering phase which is then later allocated to the production of one or more plant(s).

The entries in the Plant field now have the following meaning:

	Entry	Meaning
	Blank	no plant (group BOM)
	*	all plants

If you now want to allocate a bill of material to other plants and want to see all plants to which allocations can be made, enter the special character * in the field of the allocation plant.