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Prerequisites

The superior assembly must already have been saved as order or project-specific.

Procedure

  1. Select the BOM header whose material you want to exchange.

  1. Open the BOM header context menu with the right mouse button and select Material Exchange .

The Setting Material Data dialog box appears.

  1. Select which data you want the system to create in the material master.

  • Basic data for plant

  • Maximum transfer

  1. Enter a material number and a description for the new material.

If you do not enter a material number, the system assigns a material number from an internal number range.

  1. Click ( ) .

The system carries out the material exchange.

Result

The system

  • Creates a new material master record with the new material number

  • Copies the BOM for the previous material and saves it as an order BOM, whose header is then assigned the new material number

  • Replaces the previous component in the superior order BOM item with a component that has the new material number

  • Writes a log , in which system activities during the material exchange are documented.