BOM _alternative unit

[Former Member]

Dear all,

IS it possible to matain BOM in alternative unit.?

For Ex. X ---Header material

X1 ---component

X2---Component

X is a header material and BUM is LIT and alternative unit is KG

I want to maintain BOM of header material in KG not in LIT

But system is automatically fetch BUM LIT in bom

Is possible to change that unit ?

Kinbdly help

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Harish,

The BOM will be maintained always with base unit of measurement.

May I know why do you want to have alternative UOM there?

SmanS

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

we have 2 plant one is production and second is R&d . Production plant want to maintain bom in there own unit but R&D plant want to maitain bom in KG only.

But sytem not allow me.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Harish,

The base UOM is maintained at the client level & not at plant level.

So even if other plant WANT to maintain the BOM in alternative UOM, it can not be done.

Beside this the BOM is the master data which you need to maintain once.

I assume that your R&D dept. does produce the FG base on alternative UOM.

So you can tackle this by using concept of 'Production unit' in work schduling view.

That means even though the BOM is in base UOM the order will be created in order unit with due requirement of all the components.

Hope this helps you.

SmanS

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi SmanS,

I tried your solution that practice we are already following but we are making the BOM tolerance Limit Validation, I to use Alt UOM.as I maintied the conversion 1000 KL = 838 MT,My base Unit is MT,But I want to make the BOM using Alt Unit "KL".

Please advice.

Thanks,

Gauraw

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello, and I apologise if my answer is a little late, but all you have to do is maintain the production unit in the 'Work Scheduling' view of MM02.

In the 'General Data' tab, update the 'Production Unit' field with the UOM which you would like to create the BOM.

As long as the 'Additional Data' Units of Measure is updated in MM02 for the raw material, this should fix your problem.

Regards

Adam

[Former Member]

just wonder whether we can modify the base qty to suit your need.

just check if the below logic is helpful to u.

say, your base UOM is kg,

so 1 kg is .95 lt , so 1 lt is 1.05kg.

so change the base qty to 1.05kg in BOM so that will reflect 1 lt.

hope this helps

regards