Material Exchange in the Order Browser (SAP Library

Material Exchange in the Order Browser

Use

You exchange the material to a node of a multi-level BOM for a sales order item if you want to carry out different changes to a non-configurable assembly that is used on various levels in one of the multi-level BOMs.

Note

If you want to exchange the material of a configurable assembly, you use the instantiation in variant configuration. An instantiation is then particularly necessary if you have configured material BOMs differently to various nodes, and now want to fix. You can find further information about instantiation in Instantiation of configurable materials.

Material exchange is necessary, is an assembly is used on more than one node and you

Want to make order-specific changes to one of the nodes, but want to use the unchanged material BOM on the other nodes
Want to make different changes to various nodes in the bill of material
Transfer a BOM to Project System

Prerequisites

The BOM whose header material you exchange, must be a material BOM.

The superior BOM, that means the BOM that contains the components to be exchanged, has to be an order BOM.

If you work with variant configuration, we recommend that you close the configuration before you start the material exchange. You instantiate configurable assemblies in variant configuration.

Features

The system creates a new material master record and for the selected nodes an order BOM. Consequently, data is copied from the original material master record and items are copied from the original BOM.

You can select the scope of the data to be copied:

If you only transfer the basic data for a plant, the system copies the basic data and the MRP data to the plant of the sales order. You get a material master record that only contains the data that is required for a material exchange. You can enhance this material master record manually.
If you select maximum transfer, the system also copies additional data that is available in the original material master record, such as sales and distribution and costing data. Consequently only the data for the plant of the sales order or, if not available, the group data is copied.