Creating a BOM by Copying an Existing BOM with a D (SAP Library

Creating a BOM by Copying an Existing BOM with a Different Usage

The usage of the BOM you are creating and the usage of the BOM you are copying from do not need to be the same. The item statuses of the copied item can be extended or reduced in the new BOM usage if a copy default is defined.

Note

In Customizing for Production, you define copy defaults by choosing Bill of Material ® BOM Usage ® Define copy default for item status. These copy defaults determine how the item statuses in an existing BOM are changed when the items are copied to a new BOM.

Example of a copy default

You want to create a BOM with usage Production (1).

The item statuses are defined such that all items are relevant to production, and items can be relevant to design or spare parts.

You enter a BOM with usage Engineering/design (2) that you want to copy.

The item statuses are defined such that all items are relevant to design, and items can be relevant to production or spare parts (new usage 1; usage of source BOM 2).

If you defined a copy default when you configured your system :

According to this copy default, the items you copy to the new BOM are marked as only relevant to production and design. All other indicators in the source item are ignored.

If you did not define a copy default when you configured your system :

The items are copied to the new BOM as they are, insofar as this is possible.

As the Indicator: item relevant to production is a required entry in the new BOM with usage Production (1), and this indicator may not be maintained in all items in the source BOM with usage Engineering/design (2), you may need to enter the Indicator: item relevant to production manually.