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Function documentationFlexible Bill of Distribution

 

You can use this function to simplify the assignment of products to a bill of distribution (BOD).

To use this function, you must activate the SCM-APO-SPP, Service Parts Planning 1 (SCM_APO_SPP_GEN_1) business function. For more information, see SCM-APO-SPP, Service Parts Planning 1.

Features

There are two ways of handling BODs in the system:

  • Static BOD

  • Flexible BOD

Static BOD was the only logic the system used up to SAP SCM 7.0. In the case of static BOD, a BOD can only be assigned to a product if the product exists in all of the locations of the BOD as a location product.

Flexible BOD simplifies the maintenance of BODs and their assignment to products. In the case of Flexible BOD, the restriction that the product must exist as location product at all locations of the BOD that is being assigned to it no longer exists. Consuming applications consider the product at only those locations of the BOD where it exists as location product.

The following restrictions must be observed to maintain the consistency of the BOD:

  • If a location product exists at a certain BOD location, a location product for the product must also exist at the parent location of this BOD location.

  • A location product must exist at one entry point of the BOD at least.

  • If a location has a virtual child location in the BOD, but no location product of the product exists at any of its physical child locations, the virtual child location is considered as a location without location product.

Note Note

The two ways of handling BODs do not exist simultaneously in the system, you must choose between them and make the relevant settings. If you choose to use flexible BOD, for example, the system assigns BODs to products according to this logic in every case.

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Activities

To use flexible BOD, in Customizing choose Start of the navigation path SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Hierarchy Next navigation step Define Bill of Distribution (BOD) Type End of the navigation path, and select Flexible BOD in the BOD Type field.