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BOM Explosion in PR/PO

Former Member
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Hi All:

I have a situation, where client purchases consumables which is non stock item (NLAG - Mat Type). They also define BOM for those materials. Now at the time of creating PR/PO if assign this BOM material, it is not exploding in the document. Account assignment is K - Cost Center, A - Asset, Item Category is Standard Purchasing.

Can you please help me with exploding BOM in purchasing document?

Thank you.

Regards,

- Rohan

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JL23
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Can you explain in detail what you want with this explosion?

The only BOM explosion in a PO is for sub contracting.

Former Member
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I understand, Standard SAP allows BOM explosion in PO only for Subcontracting.

In this particular case, client buys non stock material as Asset or consumables with standard purchasing. they define BOM for their material, and they want to explode the BOM at the component level while creating PR/PO.

Is there any way to do that?

Thank you

Regards,

-Rohan

JL23
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I am not sure if I understand what you want, but I believe you want order a material called furniture, and furniture has a BOM which is one table and 4 chairs.

And you want enter 1 furniture in ME21N and SAP should do a miracle and order 1 table and 4 chairs instead.

Is this what you want?

Former Member
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Yes Sir, That is the exact miracle I am looking for.

Is there any way to do that?

Regards,

Rohan Shah

JL23
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not to my experience.

Certainly it would be nice for manual PR and PO creation.

But I valuate a scenario always as a complete process, which means you have setup MRP views for the materials and MRP run scheduled daily.

As there is no stock for furniture, how should SAP know when it has to order furniture? do you expect SAP to explode the BOM, check any BOM items according to MRP parameters, just to finally create a requisition for the furniture, which is then again exploded into single components in the PO. Pretty complicated scenario.

As you store tables and chairs, SAP is able to create requistions automatically based on stock figures and demand directly In turn there is not need to have furniture as material.

for manual PO creation, you can use old PRs and PO and create the new one as copy from these old ones.

Former Member
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SAP doesn't have to determine when to buy the furniture in this case, as there is no MRP involved for such non stock materials. They will create Purchase requisition manually but only thing they are looking for is when they enter furniture in PR it needs to explode and create the line items for 1 table and 4 chairs.

Thank you.

Rohan

JL23
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even this fact will not change SAPs design.

Former Member
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Ya, I understand. Anyways I will find some way around... Thank you very much for taking time for brainstorming with me.

I appreciate your help.

Rohan

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