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BOM Usage

You can create various BOMs for a material:

You can create a production BOM for a material that you produce yourself, for example. The production BOM contains all the parts needed for production.
The maintenance BOM contains only the parts that can be repaired or replaced during regular maintenance tasks or repair tasks.

In this section, you maintain the BOM usage . You define which user departments (production, plant maintenance, engineering and so on) a BOM of a particular usage can be used in.

The BOM usage must be specified when a BOM is created. If you then add components of the BOM, you can enter for each BOM item an item status which defines the possible usages of this special item. If you only allow the area of Plant Maintenance in theBOM usage, this means that even the individual items can only be relevant to Plant Maintenance.

Standard settings

BOM usage '4' is supplied as plant maintenance in the standard system. This means that BOMs defined as usage '4' are exclusively relevant to plant maintenance. Other areas such as production, for example, cannot use usage '4'.

Note

You can create BOMs for materials within maintenance BOM management for which no plant data is maintained. This function is only possible for BOMs that are exclusively relevant to plant maintenance.