The data stored in BOMs (bills of material) serves as a basis for production planning (SAP PP)activities such as:
- A design department (working with CAD) can base its work on bills of material. BOMs can be created in the SAP system from CAD program, via the SAP-CAD interface.
- Material requirements planning (MRP) department explodes bills of material) on a certain date to calculate cost-effective order quantities for materials.
- A work scheduling department uses bills of material as a basis for operation planning and production control.
- A production order management department, uses bills of material to plan the provision of materials.
The data stored in BOMs is also used in other activities in a company such as:
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BOMs (Bills of Material, PP-BD-BOM)
BOMs (Bills of Material in Production Planning) is a formally structured list of the components that make up a product or assembly. The list contains the object number of each component, together with the quantity and unit of measure.
BOMs are used in their different forms in various situations where a finished product is assembled from several component parts or materials. Depending on the industry sector, they can also be called recipes or lists of ingredients and so on.
BOMs in Production Planning (SAP PP) contain important basic data for numerous areas of a company, for example:
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There are missing functions from logistics invoice verification program (MIRO transaction).
The ‘translation date’ field for the foreign currency translation for foreign currency invoices was really removed from MIRO transaction since SAP enjoy implementation. The default date of ‘translation date’ is equal to the posting date.
SAP remove translation date field in order to make the Enjoy transactions easy to use, the input field was not implemented as it is only rarely used. This field is in old SAP transactions (MR01)
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Displaying Session Logs
The batch input system keeps a detailed log of each session that is processed. The log contains not only progress messages from the batch input system itself, but also error messages from the transactions that are processed.
For analyzing an SAP error in a session, you should start by checking the session log for relevant messages. A session log is kept only if the session was generated with the KEEP option or if the session is aborted or contains an error.
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Normally translation date of SAP document, posting with foreign currency is taken as posting date. So if you want the translation date should be the same to document date.
Go to GGB1 transaction for substitution creation
The next step is create step for substitution: now a popup comes up and you have to select translation date.
If BKPF-WWERT is not in the list you have to change the corresponding entry in table GB01 (BEXCLUDE has to be empty). When you select translation date, you choose field-to-field substitution and you enter BKPF-BLDAT (document date) as source field.
Save then! After that you have to activate in OBBH transaction as well.
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