BOM Management

[Former Member]

Dear All,

I have a scenario, where one of the sub-assembly inside a assembly is to be procured by us & supplied to the vendor for them to assemble the entire assembly.

Since we are buying at assembly level, the buying pattern of the assembly is F blank & so p-req is generated at assembly level. Now how i can make the system generate a p-req only for this sub-assembly which we have to procure & provide to vendor? At the moment i have 3 options

1. Change buying pattern of main assembly to F-50, so i can have p-req for all sub-assemblies, but this is not OK from business perspective as we do not buy any of these individual sub-assemblies or maintain stock at this level.

2. Change buying pattern to F-30, but business does not want to manage sub-contracting PO, so solution is not acceptable

3. I can move this sub-assy from level - 2 to level - 1, meaning treating it as a separate assembly. This also would not be acceptable, since the BOM is shared on a global basis & this shift will cause an impact to other plants. Furthermore maintaining of plant specific BOM only for this assembly is also not acceptable.

I would like to know is there any other option for my specific scenario?

Vivek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

the only option you have is to use PIR as you will not get any dependent requirement.

One more option is you can make the system to create a requirement for sub assembly by exploding the BOM of assembly when you create a PR for assembly through user exit. user exit is MEREQ001

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Mr. Rajesha,

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Vivek