Material Substitution using BOM

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a unique requirement.The business scenario is like this

Material A is in created in SAP.

This material is inventoried,delivered and invoiced.

Now after some time this material is discontinued and we have another Material B which should replace A.

The conversion of the quantity is

1 piece of Material A = 5 pieces of Material B

I got a suggestion that we can use a BOM to carry a substitution.

But if we use BOM then the first time we create the main item in SAP wht should be the item category group and will this item category group then be assigned to item category that will make the material behave like a normal finished product.

Also what should be the item category group for the sub components?

NOTE:at this time we wont create a BOM (CS01) for this material so this material

how will the item category group be used so tht this material behaves normally (inventoried,priced, delivered and then invoiced)

Now once determined that this material needs to be discontinued then we will create a BOM (CS01) and assign the components to the BOM.

But now this main component cannot be inventoried,delivered,priced or invoiced.Only the sub components will be delivered ,priced,nventoried and invoiced.

Is it possible to acheive this?

[Former Member]

Or use Engineering Change Management (ECM), this is more commonly used in your scenario

[Former Member]

Hi.

Create a material with item catagery group ERLA.

Create sub items with NORM.

Create a sales BOM in t.code CS01 for main material(ERLA).

Main material item catagery will be TAQ.

Sub items will be TAE.

Do item catagery determination (VOV4)

ORERLA(BLANK IN USAGE)+(BALNK IN HLEVEL)=TAQ---- This is for main level item where u create a pack for 5 materials.

Do ORERLA( )+TAQ=TAE.

Now u maitain main item in material detemination (VB11 T.code)

Give Replacement material(substitution) as main item.

This will solve your issue , I hope

Regards,

Reddyy