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Bills of material: changes in BOM
reporting
Description
For Release 3.0, the screen layout and the handling of the BOM reporting
functions have been changed.
1. The initial screens of all BOM reporting
functions have been changed.
- Previously, you entered the selection criteria for BOM explosion and
where-used lists in the following three dialog boxes: Define
view, Extend view,
Restrict view . Now you enter all selection criteria on one
screen, which is subdivided into the above data groups.
- In addition, you can now change the list format as required. For this
purpose, the screen View has been expanded to
include the data group Format profile.
In this group, you maintain the following two
profiles:
- The list profile, which contains information on the formatting of list
displays.
- The print profile, which contains information on the formatting of print
lists.
Each profile is allocated to a list
identification, whose maximum blocks contain all the fields that can possibly
appear on the list. The display blocks assigned contain all the formatting
information for the displayed list and the print list.
Note:
To date, each BOM explosion or where-used list is set up according to a
standard profile, which is allocated to a list ID.
2. As for the where-used list, the
following functions have changed:
- You can now create a bill of material with reference to an equipment, a
functional location, a document info record, or a standard object. When
generating the where-used list for a material or document, you can limit the
search to particular BOM categories where the material or document is
contained by selecting the BOM cateogories in the data group
<Used in.
In the where-used list for classes, the data
group Used in is not displayed because to date class
items can only exist in material BOMs.
If the system finds that a material or document
is used in several BOM categories, it divides up the where-used list per BOM
category, starting each BOM category on a separate page.
Exception messages are displayed at the bottom of the list.
Note:
In a where-used list for a material, the default BOM category is "material
BOM", and in a where-used list for a document, the default is "document
structure".
Exception messages are displayed on a separate
page after the last where-used path.
- The following changes have been made to the field
Plant) on the View screen:
|
Entry |
Meaning |
|
Blank |
no plant (group BOM) |
|
* |
all plants |
If, for example, you want to display the
where-used list of a material across all plants, you must enter the special
character * in the field plant on
the screen view.
3. The following functions for the
where-used list are new:
- Documentation (F1 help) is now available for all list fields.
- The where-used list for a material can now also be generated over several
levels. If you select the material BOM as the only BOM category in the data
group Used in, the indicator:
multi-level is displayed on the screen
View in the data group Extend view.
Use this indicator to determine whether the where-used list is to be generated
over one or all BOM levels.
If you select "multi-level" and the system finds
occurrences of the material at several BOM levels, the explosion level is
displayed in column Lv).
The end of a where-used path is indicated by a separator line.
Example: Where-used list for material A
Material A is contained in the bill of material
of material B. This bill of material is in turn item B of the bill of material
for material C.
The following where-used path for material A results:
|
Explosion level |
Material |
|
1 |
B |
|
2 |
C |