Planning Bills of Material

A planning BOM is an artificial grouping of items in a bill of material format. PeopleSoft Supply Planning uses planning BOMs for aggregate forecasting or aggregate reporting purposes. With planning BOMs, you can explode forecasting and facilitate both your master scheduling and material planning. You can create and maintain, on a summary level, all components that comprise a planning BOM for a group of assembly items or product families in a specific business unit.

For planning bills, the item ID (the parent item in the bill) is always a nonstockable item that represents a group or family of items. It must be defined in the business unit item attributes with Planning as the source code. It also represents an item that, while forecasted, cannot be ordered. Because planning items can be components of other planning items, you can create multiple levels of planning bills.

Planning BOMs are defined and maintained with the Planning BOMs page in PeopleSoft Supply Planning.