Determining materials to be transferred to APO

[nitin_thatte]

Hi

We are implementing APO at a client that has a deep Bill of material (8 to 9 levels).

There are certain critical materials and components that we want to plan in APO.

Since to correctly arrive at the demand for these materials, we need to identify all the materials that are superior to these.  For example if a component is going into three assemblies, we need to take all three of them to APO.

Has anyone an idea to find out the vertical chain from a child material?

Thanks in advance.

Nitin Thatte

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin

can you check following transaction in ECC system

CS15 : Where use list

Unfortunately this transaction only works for one material at each time.

The similar option you have in APO in /SAPAPO/MAT1 where you can enter material and fine Where use list from Extra tab on header.

Please let us know if this information helps you.

Thanks

Amol

[nitin_thatte]

Hi Amol,

Thanks for reply.

CS15 in top down (and one at a time)

/SAPAPO/MAT1 is in APO.  Since we want to identify materials to be sent to APO we need some method in ECC itself.

Regards,

Nitin Thatte

[RahulHanda]

Hi Nitin,

In CS15 you should see what you are asking for. If you put a component and select multi-level and execute, it should show the results.

If you don't see the results share one example. On the other hand if you want to put multiple entries and want to see the results then check below links where reports were generated with enhancements.

CS15 (multiple selection of materials) | SCN

CS15 - How to extand list using CLVL - ERP Operations - SCN Wiki

Regards

Rahul

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin

can you check the data in the following tables.

STKO BOM Header

STPO BOM item

STPU BOM Subitem

you need to use also the MAST Table, using the Field Value

STLAN - BOM Usage

STLNR - Bill of material

you can retreive the BOM compnenets

Create a query using the Tbale MAST & join the Tables STKO, STPO, STPU.

Here I think you can use in Mass.

Amol