About Changing the BOM to a Multi-Level Format for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
You can process the Bill of Materials (BOM) for exploding to a multi-level structure to ultimately populate both the W_BOM_HEADER_D and W_BOM_ITEM_F tables.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne maintains BOM information in a single level format, but Oracle BI Applications requires it in multi-level format. Therefore, before loading data into Oracle BI Applications tables, the single level structure must be exploded into a multi-level structure.
Because all of the BOM information is stored in one single table in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne source and there are no defined levels for the BOM, the system has to loop through iteratively to get the BOM exploded. Also, Oracle BI Applications maintains all the revisions to the components as a new version of the BOM along with their effective dates. Considering these facts, it is not feasible to use ETL to convert the single level BOM to a multi-level BOM. Therefore the logic from an existing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne UBE (R30460) was used to create a new UBE for the explosion.
This new UBE (R30461) extracts the manufactured end products and converts the single-level BOM format into a multi-level BOM format. In addition, it also extracts some required information like Left bounds/Right bounds and level parents (1 - 10).
The UBE loads the multi-level BOM structure for manufactured end products with each revision into two work files respectively for BOM header and item (component).
The ETL then extracts the data from the two work files and loads it into the Oracle BI Applications tables.
Note:
If you plan to consume analytics on Bill of Materials, it is mandatory to run this UBE before starting the ETL. This UBE and the related JD Edwards EnterpriseOne objects are created solely for the benefit of analytics and therefore will not be available in the existing source system.