How are Bills of Material Used in SAP PP?
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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SAP PP – Bills of Material (BOM)
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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SAP Tip: How to Set Mandatory field for Standard SAP Report
The question is whether it’s possible to define a field as mandatory for standard SAP report such as FBL1N, FBL3N, FBL5N transaction. For example you need to define the field “Company code” as mandatory for these SAP transactions.
We can set the mandatory field as you want by creating variant for SAP transactions (such as FBL5N (Customer Line item display) transaction, for example).
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SAP Process : Reorganize Sessions and Logs
Some question about the processed items in Batch Input Session. We found that there is no any processed item/log under processed tab in batch input session.
So the question is why the processed items are deleted?
Batch Input: Reorganize Sessions and Logs
The program RSBDCREO will delete only successfully “processed” batch session. This SAP standard program will do reorganization on APQD table (control BDC session). Otherwise, the table will become so big.
The SAP program RSBDCREO does the following:
- Deletes (sucessfully) processed sessions still in the system and their logs. Only these sessions are deleted and not “sessions still to be processed”, “sessions with errors”, and so on.
- Deletes logs, for which sessions no longer exist.
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SAP Tip : How to default translation date for Foreign Currency document
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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Input and Output Tax Definition
Input / Output Tax:
At month-end, Input tax is offset with output tax and balance have to pay/receive the goverment.
Some countries allow setoff of output tax against inout tax which is called VAT in European countries and MODVAT in India ( hta is tax payable on sold items against tax paid against bought out items) based on materials and products.
Input Tax is receivable account and Output Tax is liability account. Output tax is periodically set off against input tax.
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