Common Elements Used in Bills of Material

Field or Control	Description
BOM Type	Select the type of BOM that you are creating. Values are: Production: BOM is used as the basis for manufacturing assemblies or end items. Rework: BOM is a rework BOM, which you can create if you have a standard rework process that involves including additional components. For example, if you have a repair kit of components that you always issue when an item is reworked, you can define that repair kit here. As with manufacturing BOMs (MBOMs), you can define a primary rework BOM and up to 98 alternates by creating BOM codes. Rework BOMs are not required to create rework production IDs.

Field or Control

Description

BOM Type

Select the type of BOM that you are creating. Values are:

Production: BOM is used as the basis for manufacturing assemblies or end items.
Rework: BOM is a rework BOM, which you can create if you have a standard rework process that involves including additional components.

For example, if you have a repair kit of components that you always issue when an item is reworked, you can define that repair kit here. As with manufacturing BOMs (MBOMs), you can define a primary rework BOM and up to 98 alternates by creating BOM codes.

Rework BOMs are not required to create rework production IDs.