BILL OF MATERIALS

A Bill of Materials is a formally structured list of the components that         make up a product or assembly. The list contains the object number of           each component and description, together with the quantity and unit of             measure.

The Bills of material used in PP for exploding bills of material on a certain date.

A work scheduling department uses bills of material as a basis for operation planning and production control; the production order management department uses bills of material to plan the provision of materials. When the BOM is executed the costing document will be generated automatically.

One product can be manufactured from alternative combinations of            materials depending on the quantity to be produced (lot size). The    product is represented by a number of alternative BOMs (alternatives).            The multiple BOM can contain components, which are only used in one of            the alternatives, and one component, which is used in both alternatives

All alternatives of a multiple BOM are stored as a BOM group (Super         BOM comprising all alternatives) under one internal BOM number. The      FG material code will be used for the description of BOM group for easy       identification. As soon as you process one alternative in a multiple BOM, all the other alternatives are locked for processing.

Changes in BOM can be made individually or collectively. By default, all the changes to a BOM will be with immediate effect. However, changes           can be made with effect from a future date if required.