Defination of the Item Status with the BOM Usage

March 14, 2010 by mySAP
Filed under: Production Planning Module

By defining the BOM usage (Customizing for Bills of material, step Define BOM usages) in the SAP system, each company determines which item statuses can and cannot be set.

The item status covers a range of indicators that can be entered for BOM items, relevant to engineering, relevant to production, relevant to costing, and so on, for example.

These item status indicators control:

Processing of the BOM in related application areas. The indicators define whether further processing is required, allowed, or not allowed. If processing in an application area is supported, you can maintain application-specific data for the items. For example, only items that are relevant to production are copied to a production order.
The selection of items for BOM explosion

Item Status Indicators

You can define indicators as optional fields for a BOM usage. This means that you can set these indicators for one item in a BOM and not for another item.

In Customizing for Production, application areas are defined for which BOM items are relevant by using the following indicators:

Item relevant to production – can be maintained
Item relevant to engineering – must be maintained
Item relevant to plant maintenance – cannot be maintained
Item relevant to sales and distribution – cannot be maintained
Item relevant to costing
Spare part – can be maintained

Before you can enter PM structure elements and items relevant to plant maintenance in functional location BOMs and equipment BOMs, you need to choose a BOM usage that supports plant maintenance items.

Each area (for example, production or design) maintains a separate BOM with a separate usage. If you create several BOMs for one material with different usages, the system saves each BOM usage under a separate internal BOM number.
Authorizations for BOMs are defined per BOM usage.