BOM Usage as a Special View on a BOM
Application as procedure for automatic alternative determinationIf you maintain separate BOMs for a product in different areas of your company, you can use BOM reporting functions to obtain information that is directly relevant to your requirements.
The design BOM includes all the components of the product and their technical data from the design point of view. This BOM is generally not linked to any order.
The production BOM includes all the items required from the production and assembly point of view. To assemble a product, you only require items that are relevant to production, which contain process data.
The costing BOM describes the product structure and is used to automatically determine the costs of the materials required for a product. Items that are not relevant to costing are not included in the costing BOM.
Each area (for example, production) creates its own BOM that contains application-specific data, instead of using one BOM for the entire company. Each area can target the BOM explosion to find only the data that is relevant. The data shown in a BOM explosion also depends on how the BOM application is defined. For example, a BOM application can define priorities for BOM usages.
The following graphic shows how different application areas in a company add their data to a BOM.
