Sort String

[Former Member]

Hello,

Someone asked me about the fiel Sort String in a BOM. I have seen it in a BOM layout but never know how this works and how to use it. I've read a little about it but not confident that I grasp a full understanding of it.

Could somebody please explain how this field is used and the benefits of using it? I would appreciate it if you could present a concrete example with a step by step so I could comprehend it well.

Thanks,

GIE

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I guess you're new to the forums, so in future use the search feature & you should find most of the queries asked earlier, as in this case.

To keep it simple its a field which you can use for sorting. Normally the sorting is done based on the item nos. so in many cases you might want to sort the components not just based on item nos. or material nos. but based on some logical connection between the components. So in that case you can specify the string and sort based on this column.

The benefit if I can say so is, it helps in visualization. Anyway the best way to understand is go to CS02, open some BOM in edit mode, maintain some sort strings, follow menu path Edit -> Sort -> Sort by sort string & check the results.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your replies.

[Former Member]

Hi,

This field you can use for the sorting purpose. Let me give you some example.

If you have the let say 60 parts in a BOM. In these 60 parts some are let say Inhouse parts, some are subcontracting parts, some are subassy imported part etc. You can define the same in this field and can observe the same whenever you are watching the BOM. this field does not effect any thing.

Regards

Vivek

[Mayorga1981]

Question , Im trying to assign to the master material because its the Country origin of this that I want to print in the label, not the subcomponents of it. how i can do it?

[Former Member]

Hi - In the standard R/3 System, items are sorted in ascending order of item number. However, you can change this sort sequence while you are processing a BOM.

You can enter a 'sort string' to indicate a certain type of material and use it to sort the BOM components when viewing theBOM. Sort string (field SORTF) is a text field and you can enter any values that logically makes sense to your sort sequence.

for E.g. - You can call some materials as class A, some as B and some as C. now you can use the sort string to list all A class items and so on.

Hope this helps

Regards,

Pradeep