Alternative Determination Using the Application
A material can have several BOMs with different BOM usages, such as production, sales, and costing.
A BOM for a specific BOM usage (such as production) can also have several alternatives, if the BOM is a multiple BOM.
By entering an Application, you can target your explosion of a BOM for one specific area within the company (such as sales).
In your user master record, you can define a default value for the Application field. This value is defined as a SET/GET parameter. When you start the BOM function, the value you see in this field is the default value from your user master record. Then you see the last value that was entered.
To define this setting in your user master, choose: System