How to change a Bill of material (BOM) item on a production order

In manufacturing industry, there are scenarios where there is need to change some bill of materials items due to various reasons. i.e. due to lack of availability of original material, or there may be increase in price of original material. & once production order is scheduled then it is not possible to change raw materials.

As a result, Microsoft has added a new feature that allows users to switch out BOM items for other items on planned or estimated production orders. This feature is useful for production manager to keep production running as well as to business personnel to keep business running in absence of or lack of required material, provided that alternate material is available.

Prerequisites for altering BOM items on production orders: –

system must meet the following requirements:

• System version should be 10.0.38 or later.
• In feature management, the “Change BOM item” feature needs to be enabled.

Also note that, one can change BOM items only for production orders that have a status of Estimated or Scheduled.

1.Now, will consider finish good L0001 for this example. Finish good number L0001, as per original BOM has raw materials M0001, M0002, M0003, M0004, M0005, M0006 & P0002.

2.Create production order for item L0001.

3.Change status to Estimate.

4.Now check estimation from Manage cost -> View calculation details -> original raw materials are considered for production order.

5.Now to change BOM item go to Production order -> Change BOM item

6.Now select raw material which needs to be replaced “From item” & “To item”.  & “To item quantity” specify required quantity of new item. Or if “To item quantity” indicates how much of the new item is needed.

7.In Production order lines Tab, select required production order / Orders in which needs to replace BOM item. Click Ok.

8.Now if we check estimation from Manage cost -> View calculation details -> New raw material is considered for production order. M0007 is considered for production order instead of M0006. & consumption is same as original material as “To quantity” was kept as 0.

Conclusion – By activating “Change BOM item” feature on system version 10.0.38 or later, can change BOM item on Estimated or scheduled production orders.

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