Definition

Navigation tool for displaying a multi-level BOM of a WBS element.

Use

You use the WBS BOM browser if you work as a make-to-order producer such as in plant engineering and construction with the project system and WBS BOMs.

Since each project has different requirements, you want to modify your material BOMs to a specific project. If you have created a WBS element for an assembly, you can create a WBS BOM for the assembly. In the WBS BOM, you carry out the project-specific modifications. The changes that you make to a WBS BOM only apply to this project and for this WBS element. If you change a WBS BOM, the corresponding material BOM remains unchanged.

In the WBS BOM browser, you get an overview of the current processing status of the multi-level WBS BOM in a central screen area, and you navigate to the processing and reporting functions for WBS BOMs.

Structure

In the WBS BOM browser the multi-level BOM is displayed in a similar way as to in the product structure browser . As you do there, you can see an overview tree, whose branches you can reveal and hide. In contrast to the product structure browser, only the BOM headers and items are displayed in the overview tree.