Use

You fix a material BOM if you want to make order-specific changes to the bill of material. In the order browser, you use this function primarily for non-configurable BOMs.

Prerequisites

You have created a sales order. You have not yet saved the bill of material you want to fix, as order-specific.

Features

When you fix a bill of material, the system creates an order-specific copy of the material BOM. In other words, it generates an order BOM from a material BOM. If you fix a BOM in the order browser, the system saves the data in the same way as for fixing a result-orientated order BOM in the variant configuration.

You can fix a bill of material on a single-level or on multiple levels. When you fix a bill of material on a single-level , the system creates just the one order BOM.

When you fix a bill of material on multiple-levels , the system generates order-specific copies for all subordinate material BOMs as well. The BOM, with which you trigger the multi-level fix, has to be a material BOM. The system creates order BOMs for all material BOMs of the subtree. If a subordinate assembly already has an order BOM the system leaves it as it is. If however, there are still material BOMs under such an order BOM, these are fixed.

Order BOMs for Configurable Materials

If you use this function to fix an order BOM for a configurable material, you will always see a result-orientated order BOM.

If you call up the variant configuration at a later date, do not forget that a configurable order BOM is merged with a material BOM that has the same material number.

You can stop the merge operation with the help of a customer enhancement.

See also:

Merging with Global Material BOMs