BOM-PM

[former_member217512]

Hi experts,

I have three doubts regarding BOM in plant maitenance.

1) How to  make a Equipment or Functional Location BOM available for more than 1 plant? Please explain the procedure.

2) Can we make one BOM is available for any 2 plant out of 5 plants in a company?

3) Can we create more than one equipment BOM or Functional location BOM for equipment or Functional location? I understood from other treads that  we can have material BOM via construction type field along with equipment or FL BOM?

While answering  please mention the Question number. It will be useful for other readers also.

Thank you

[jogeswararao_kavala · Accepted solution]

Hello Renjit,

1. I do not think it is possible to have cross plant BOMs. BOM is always for a specific plant. There is a provision for making a BOM without plant which is called BOM making  it possible to assign to any one plant later.

2. Because of the negative answer ot Question 1, this question is not applicable.

3. There is a confusion here. I see 2 queries here:

a) Whether we can make more than one BOM for Equipment or F/Locn or Material.The answer is 'Yes' . That is Alternative BOM. When you try to create a BOM for Equipment/FLocn/Material for which already a BOM exists, then system takes it as 1st alternative BOM and assigns no. 1 in the Alternative BOM field.

b) About Construction type: Construction type is nothing to do with a BOM. It is an field in Equipment master/FLocn master where you can put a  material number. This indicates that, this particular Equipment can also be identified by this material number. This is shown in the Plant Structure with a Brown line. Means is shown as if the Equipment is having an Equipment BOM with one component. Then when you make a Material BOM on this Construction type material, the BOM will be displayed in the plant structure.

Regards

KJogeswaraRao

[former_member217512 · Accepted solution]

Hi Rao,

Let me clarify myself:

For answer 1). We need to create Tech: Obj: BOM with out specifying a plant in IB11,IB01 or CS01. These BOMs are called as Group BOM.

Once the Group BOM is created, these BOM must assign to a plant in IB17,IB07 or CS07. Then only these BOMs can be used in Mntc order to select the components for operations.

Correct me If I am wrong at any point.

For answer 3), When I tried to create 2nd BOM for the tech: Obj: in the same plant, system giving an error. Is there any configuration to be done to have alternative BOMs? Please help me with instructions.

Thank you

[jogeswararao_kavala · Accepted solution]

Hello Renjit,

In fact typo error in my reply to pont1. I meant 'Called Group BOM' but the 'Group' word omitted.So farI did not have the opportunity to take a dip into this area. However I'm giving the Configuration set-up in my client where there is no issues for creating alternative BOMs.

Good luck

KJogeswaraRao

[former_member217512 · Accepted solution]

Hi Rao,

Thankyou very much for fast response..

so my understanding in answer no 1 is correct..?

[jogeswararao_kavala · Accepted solution]

Yes Renjit,

My understanding is also same.

Regards

KJogeswaraRao

[former_member616269 · Accepted solution]

Hi Renjit,

I followed your configuration for the creation of an alternative BOM for the same FL and Equipment in the same plant, but I received always the same error:

A BOM already exists for functional location/plant/usage

Message no. 29752

Please, could you help me?

If the creation of more BOM for the same FL is not possible, how can i manage the multilevel BOM for a FL?

Thanks a lot

[peter_atkin]

Renjith N K,

1. How to  make a Equipment or Functional Location BOM available for more than 1 plant? Please explain the procedure. A F-BOM or E-BOM has a 1:1 relationship with the BOM and relevant Equipment/Floc. Why do you need to have these BOMs in different plants? The system does allow you to create E/F-BOMs in alternative plants, but issues a warning message.
2. Can we make one BOM is available for any 2 plant out of 5 plants in a company? What is the business scenario behind this requirement?
3. Can we create more than one equipment BOM or Functional location BOM for equipment or Functional location? I understood from other treads that  we can have material BOM via construction type field along with equipment or FL BOM? You can only have one F-BOM or E-BOM per object in a specific plant, but you can use multi-level BOMs... General BOMs can be linked to any number of equipment or flocs, but remember that they are general and may not contain materials specific to the equipment and/or floc.

Maybe it would be a good idea to give us the business requirements behind the questions above??

PeteA

[former_member217512]

Hi Pete,

I have these doubt as part of self investigation in SAP PM BOM (I am new to SAP).

1)Could you please guide me to create E-BOM or F-BOM for more than one plant.? Warning is not a problem.

2)Is it only general BOMs can be added in multilevel BOM? please help me to create multilevel BOMs.

Thank you.