Substitute Ingredient when out of stock in Bill of Materials?

[Former Member]

Hi, Is there a way to have substitute items in a bill of materials? If an ingredient is out of stock could sap business one suggest an alternative ingredient when making a production order?

Thank you.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jose ..

The issue is that alternative items functionality is not implemented in the Product Trees as if it is possible to use in sales documents (ctrl + tab)

In this case, what you can do is check the stock and if one is not covered, the teacher would have to open the product and from there check your Alternative for manual update on the Product Trees

Regards,

[former_member583013]

Jose,

Not possible in BOM. It has to be done manually.

Suda

[Former Member]

Hi Jose..........

The provision for substitutes is already there in B1. You can use the altrenative item utility for this. So if the main item stock is nil then you can use the alternative item as substitue........

Regards,