Material BOM Changes with a Change Number

Bill of Material Management helps you create and maintain single and multi-level bills of materials (BoMs).

Use change masters to define, revise, plan, and release different effectivities of BoM changes at the component level.

Locate all occurrences of a component, across all of your BoMs with the "Where Used" function.

Use the mass replace function to update all occurrences of a component at once.

The following video shows the roles individual users play in changing a material BOM with a change master.

As you just saw, the process steps for revising a material BOM with a change master include:

• Understand at any time who has made a change to a bill of materials and why
• Create a new change number within the material BOM and use it directly
• Compare old and new development levels of the material BOM

Note

This process flow is covered in scope Item 64F- Bill of Material Management

BOM management provides functions for creating and maintaining single-level and multi-level BOMs.

Change masters can be used to define, revise, plan, and release different validities of BOM changes at component level.

With the where-used feature, BOM engineers can find all occurrences of a specific component across BOMs. In combination with a mass replace function, component substitutions can be easily managed.

In the upcoming video, you will first get an impression of how Eric, our production engineer, creates two different change numbers with different validities. Then he defines the necessary object types to make a Material BOM change possible.

Inside this video you see, how Samar, our BOM engineer first performs a material BOM creation together with an existing change number. Then inside material BOM he does a change with an existing change number. Finally he creates a new one and does again a material BOM change. At the end he checks the used change numbers inside timeline.

Material BOM changes are done and the change numbers are not used anymore. Therefore Eric sets the change numbers to inactive.

In a second scenario Eric again creates a change number. Samar uses this one to perform mass changes of material BOM components.

Inside last scenario Samar uses a new change number, created by Eric, to do an engineering BOM handover to a manufacturing BOM.

Now you should have an impression of "How the manage a material BOM with a change number".