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Function documentationReplication of Sales Bills of Material from SAP ERP (Structured Products) to SAP CRM

 

You can use this function to replicate sales bills of materials (for example, structured articles) from an SAP ERP system for retail to SAP CRM. In SAP CRM, these bills of material are stored as structured products.

You cannot upload bills of materials from SAP CRM to SAP ERP.

Note that the following restrictions apply to the download:

  • Multilevel BOMs are not downloaded.

  • Only group BOMs or BOMs from a specific plant are downloaded.

    This is because structured products cannot be defined for a specific organization, but are always valid across clients.

  • Alternative BOMs or different BOM usages, such as multiple BOMs, are not downloaded.

  • BOMs in which a material is used multiple times as a component are not downloaded.

  • BOMs in which a configurable product is used as a header product or component are not downloaded.

Also note the following restrictions in the target system:

  • It is not possible to assign any type of validity parameters, such as time, to a BOM.

  • Header-level attributes of a BOM are not stored.

    The reference quantity at header level is always 1 base unit of measure.

  • The only attribute at component level is the quantity (in the component base unit of measure).

Integration

The initial download is triggered in SAP CRM and is executed by middleware, using the adapter object BOM. Delta downloads take place automatically when BOM data is changed in SAP ERP.

Activities

To run the initial download, start transaction R3AS, specify the load object BOM, and then select an SAP ERP system as the source site and an SAP CRM system as the destination site.

More Information

For more information, see SAP Note 1156808Information published on SAP site.