The following are examples of situations in which you need to know what a product consists of:
- You need to determine the requirements for a product.
- The engineering design department needs to look at the overall structure of a product.
- You need an overview of all the necessary parts and materials.
- You need to calculate costs or effects of cost changes.
The BOM application defines the following criteria for the search procedure:
- Priority of the BOM where-used list
- Priority of a specific alternative for a particular multiple BOM
- Production versions in the material master
- Checks for particular status indicators
In your user master record, you can enter a default value for the BOM application field. This value is the SET- / GET-parameter CSA.
Where-Used Lists
You can create where-used lists for the following:
- Work centers
- Capacities
- Production resources/tools
- Reference operation sets
- Materials
- Documents
You can use the object overview to select the list you require.
Single-Level and Multi-Level Material Where-Used Lists
Whenever a multilevel BOM was created, it is necessary to display and evaluate your multilevel BOM on one screen.
The following are examples of situations in which the where-used list provides information:
- Calculating the requirements for a particular material
- Identifying the products that are affected by a change to an individual part
- Identifying the assemblies that will be produced late. For example, because of a delay in the delivery of a raw material
- Calculating the cost effects on a product if raw material costs change
Explode Bills of Material
With this app, you are able to execute a multilevel BOM explosion. Inside this app, you can decide, whether you would like to execute a Multilevel Explosion, or Summarized Explosion, expand all levels, or collapse them.
Inside screen settings, you can decide which of the 197 columns should be displayed.
An export to a spreadsheet is also possible.
