Header Detail Screen: Quantity/Long Text (SAP Library

Header Detail Screen: Quantity/Long Text

This detail screen contains descriptive texts, quantity data, and validity data, grouped together in three datasets.

Texts Describing the BOM

You can enter the following texts:

BOM text :

Short text describing the BOM or BOM group.

This text refers to all variants of a variant BOM or all alternatives of a multiple BOM.

Alternative text :

Short text describing the individual variant of a variant BOM or alternative of a multiple BOM.

This text does not refer to the entire BOM group.

By clicking on This graphic is explained in the accompanying text you can enter a long text for both text types. If a long text is available the system displays the symbol: . By clicking on this button you can change the long text.

Quantity Data for the Different Technical Types

The Base quantity is relevant to all BOMs. There is also a special quantity entry for multiple BOMs – the Lot size.

Base quantity

All component quantities in a BOM refer to the base quantity. In Customizing for Production, you can define a default base quantity for creating BOMs by choosing Bill of material ® Control data for bills of material ® Define default values.

Base unit of measure

All component quantity units in a BOM refer to the base quantity unit.

For material BOMs, the system determines this unit from the material master. You cannot change the unit, because stocks of the material are kept in this unit.

In Customizing for Production, you define a unit of measure for piece in the Unit of measure ‘piece’ field by choosing Bill of material ® Control data for bills of material ® Define modification parameters. This unit is the base unit of measure for the following BOM types:

Equipment BOMs
Functional location BOMs
Document structures
Standard BOMs

Lot size from/to

These fields are only relevant to multiple BOMs.

You can enter a lot-size range for each alternative. Components or component quantities in an assembly may vary according to the quantity to be produced or procured (the lot size).

The lot size is an essential factor for determining which alternative is to be used. For example, the alternative selection for the dependent requirements can take place via the lot size. During the planning run, the system finds the alternative that matches the lot size in the planned order and uses this alternative to determine dependent requirements.

Validity Data

The Validity dataset contains various data that restricts the processing of a BOM.

Change number

Number of the change master record that controls the change to the material BOM.

The system uses the change master record to determine the valid-from date of the change. All changes are logged and can be documented in detail.
You can also assign a revision level to change statuses of a material and a document.

Valid-from date

Start of validity period of the BOM in the standard R/3 System.

If you process a BOM using a change number in the standard R/3 System, the system uses the change master record to determine the valid-from date.

If you process the BOM with reference to a change number that has a new validity type (for example, validity by serial number), the system ignores valid-from date. The validity of the item depends on other values (for example, range of serial numbers).

BOM status

The status is used to control BOM processing in the different application areas.

In Customizing for Production, you define the statuses for BOMs, using indicators that allow or prevent processing by choosing Bills of material ® General data ® Define BOM status. This indicator enables you to process BOMs in the selected areas of a company or to exclude them.

Example

BOM A:
A BOM with status 1 can be exploded in material requirements planning (MRP) and released for a planned order.

BOM B:
A BOM with status 2 can neither be exploded in MRP nor released for a planned order.

Authorization group

This key, which refers to an authorization value in the user profile, controls access to the entire BOM.

In addition to the authorization group, values for the Activity, BOM usage, and BOM category are defined in the user profile.

Provided that the values in these fields pass the system checks, the authorization group controls the check as follows:

If there is no entry, the authorization group of the user is not checked. Any user can access the BOM.

If there is an entry, only those users with the authorization group entered in their user master record can access the BOM.

If you want to assign an authorization group to the BOM, you can only enter an authorization group from within the range defined in your user profile.

Deletion indicator

This indicator shows that the BOM is marked for deletion.

Before you can archive a BOM (archiving object CS_BOM), you must mark it for deletion. You can still process the BOM, but the BOM will be deleted during the next reorganization run.

See also:

Archiving