automatic spares updation in the equipment bill of material

[Former Member]

Dear sir,

I ve a requirement that the maintenance user wants to use the spare part for maintenance activity in the order .

This spare should be updated in the equipment bill of material automatically.

because this equipment is very old equipment , so the maintenance user not able to list out the bill of material for this equipment.

'when he remove the equipment and disassemble time, he finds out new part to be used in this equipment.

is there any option available in the maintenance order to give pop up that while entering the component , it should show pop up as " new spare is used and updated in equipment bom"

[former_member1107731]

Dear Vinoth,

Automatic spares updation in the Equipment BOM is not possible in the standard system. You will have to enhance the system to include this requirement. You should have a look at the following enhancements: CNEX0037: Check a freshly created component, CNEX0038: Check a changed component, From these User Exits , you would need to call this function module "CSAI_BOM_MAINTAIN" to perform the relevant changes in the BOM. However, I would not recommend you to go for the Automatic spares updation in the Equipment BOM, the reason being that there is a possibility of several scenarios that you would need to cater for example:

A material already has been included in the BOM with a specific quantity, now you create a maintenance order and mention a greater quantity than what was previously included in the BOM, you will have to compare the material numbers and then the previous quantity with this one and then will have to update the new quantity with this one.

There can also be materials needed for the equipments operation such as Grease, Lube Oil, Diesel Oil etc, these would also be included in the BOM though they are not part of the BOM, you will have to also check these.

Most of the equipments in industries have spare parts which have further material BOMs attached to them. This would be very tricky to cater for, creating a material BOM for such materials. A part in one of these Assemblies is fault and you create a maintenance order against the equipment and the assembly and create a reservation for the relevant part, now the system would include this as a part in the Equipment BOM and would not consider it as a sub part for the material.

so Here are some of the scenarios that would need detailed consideration.

@ Pete, The functionality is Parts Interchangeability/Configuration Control in SAP IS- Aerospace and Defense for which you need to create Illustrated Parts Catalog which tells you the Permissible configuration for any equipment and you also maintain the actual configuration and then you can compare both to identify any inconsistencies between both the two.

Regards,

Muhammad Usman Kahoot

Edited by: Usman Kahoot on Jan 5, 2012 4:28 PM

[former_member661330]

Hi,

A couple of years ago I created a custom program to receive a pop-up when the work order is closed; on this pop-up you can select all materials were used on the work orders.

Regards

[peter_atkin]

There is an MM option to provide you with a replacement material number - can't remember what the functionality is called...

Another option is to perform a search-and-replace function (TCode CS20) in your BOMs to replace the old material numbers with a new one.

PeteA

[Former Member]

Hi,

give a try for user exit :-CNEX0035,CNEX0037

Please check in SMOD ..read the documentation ..