Creating a Plant Allocation (SAP Library

Creating a Plant Allocation

Creating a Plant Allocation

To allocate a BOM to an additional plant:

From the bills of material menu, choose Bills of material ® Material BOM ® Allocation to plant ® Create.

You see the initial screen for plant allocation.

Enter the data of the BOM you want to allocate to an additional plant.

– Material

– Plant

– Usage

– Alternative

You do not need to enter an alternative for a simple BOM.

If you do not enter an Alternative for a multiple BOM, you see the alternative overview. You can select one of the alternatives on the overview to allocate to one or more additional plants.

Choose Edit ® New allocations.

In the Material allocations – BOM dataset, enter the plant to which you want to allocate the BOM.

– If you do not make an entry here, you see a list of all the plants to which you can allocate the BOM.

– Select the plants to which you want to allocate the BOM.

– Choose Edit ® New allocations.

You see the Current allocations screen. The system displays all the plants you selected for allocation on this screen.

Note

If a BOM or alternative could not be allocated to a plant, you see an information message. The reasons why are documented in a log. Choose Log.

If your BOM is a multiple BOM, you can maintain the lot-size range for the individual allocations on the Current allocations screen.

Note

If your BOM is a multiple BOM, the system copies the lot sizes from the plant to which the BOM was originally allocated. You can change these at any time.

Save the new allocations on the Current allocations screen.

The Save function automatically checks the allocations.

Checking Plant Allocations Before Saving

To check plant allocations:

To check whether the current allocations are also possible at BOM item level, choose Edit ® Check allocations. If not all allocations are possible, you see an information message. You can see the reason why in the log.

To see the log, choose Extras ® Log. You see information on why certain allocations cannot be made. For example, not all material components have material masters in the plant to which you want to allocate the BOM.

Note

Before you can save your allocations, you must delete the allocations that cannot be made on the Current allocations screen.

Deleting Plant Allocations Before Saving

To delete a plant allocation:

Select the allocations you want to delete on the Current allocations screen.

Choose Edit ® Allocation ® Delete. Confirm the query.