Material BOM is a BOM with Reference to a Material
A bill of material that can be create for a material is known as a material BOM in the SAP System.
To create a material master in the SAP System, you can use the following functions:
Material > Create > Immediately
For this material, the SAP system creates a material master immediately, so that you can also create a BOM for it.
Material > Create > Schedule
For this material, the SAP system only generates a change document. This is why BOM cannot be created for the material at first.
Only when you activate the scheduled material does the SAP system create a material master record. Then you can create a BOM for it.
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In the SAP System, BOMs (Bills of Material in SAP Production Planning) can be used to represent different objects (such as materials, equipment, functional location BOMs, and documents) and to maintain object-specific data.
Before you can create a BOM for the component parts of an object, the object must have a valid master record in SAP system.
The following shows the objects for which BOMs can be created.
- Material Master Record –> Material BOM
- Equipment Master Record –> Equipment BOM
- Document Info Record –> Document BOM
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A single-level BOM displays the assembly or sub-assembly with only one level of children. Thus it displays the components directly needed to make the assembly or sub-assembly.
You can break down large and complex product structures into a number of related units. Each unit can be represented by a BOM, referred to in this documentation as a single-level BOM.
A single-level BOM describes one or more assemblies by means of component quantities. In the following, the term single-level BOM will be shortened to BOM.
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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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