Determining the Valid BOM Items 

Process Flow

When the valid BOM is determined, the system checks the items to see if they require the creation of secondary requirements:

  1. If you have maintained alternative items, the dependent requirements of the alternatives are calculated according to the usage probabilities (see Alternative Items).
  2. The system checks whether a BOM item is a discontinued material and, if necessary, diverts the requirements to a follow-up material (see Discontinued Parts).
  3. In the planning run, dependent requirements are only created for BOM items that are relevant for production. The system copies only these items to the planned order (see BOM Items Relevant for Production).
  4. For variant configuration, the BOM that corresponds to the configuration of the sales order is exploded. Thus, the system only plans those components that are to be used in production as specified by the configuration from the super BOM (see BOM Explosion for Variant Configuration).
  5. If a BOM item is a phantom assembly, the dependent requirements of the higher-level assembly are directly passed on to the components of the phantom assembly. The phantom assembly itself is still not taken into account (see BOM Explosion with Phantom Assemblies).