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Use

Sub-items are used to describe the different installation points of these partial quantities.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Bills of material (work step Item data ® Define item categories), you can define whether sub-items are supported for each individual item category. In the standard system, for example, sub-items are supported for the following item categories: Stock item Non-stock item Variable-size item PM structure element

Procedure

You can start the function for entering sub-items either from an item overview or from an item detail screen.

  1. If you are on an Item overview, select the items for which you want to enter sub-items.

If you are on an item detail screen, start with step 2.
  1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Subitem.

You see the Subitems screen, on which sub-item numbers are already given.
  1. Enter the subitems.

You can enter the following data:

– Installation points

– Sub-item quantities

The system compares the item quantity to the sum of all sub-item quantities. If the item quantity is different from the sum of the sub-item quantities, the system changes the item quantity.

You see the following information:

Item quantity changed from <old value> to <new value>

– Sub-item description

Enter a descriptive text for the sub-item (up to 40 characters).

  1. If you have selected several items, you can switch between then sub-item overviews and the individual items using the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text and This graphic is explained in the accompanying text buttons.
  1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Result

On the item overview, all the items that have sub-items have the Sub-items exist (SIs) indicator.

Once you have entered sub-items for an item, you can only change the component quantity on the sub-item overview.

Note

No history is stored for sub-items. If a change to a sub-item quantity leads to a change to an item quantity, a new item record is created. The sub-items are maintained separately for each item record.

 

 

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