Update Product Structures

Managing product structures involves updating the structure.

This includes adding or removing components in the structures, making changes to first-level component attributes, and maintaining substitute and reference designator information for first-level components. Managing product structures also includes deleting product structures that you no longer use.

Update Components

Structure component updates include the following actions:

• Add: Search for items and add them as first-level components to a structure.

  You can’t add duplicate components to a structure or a parent component to a child component using commercialization change orders.

  You can add duplicate components to a structure if you opt in to the feature Add Find Number and Suggested Operation Sequence for Structure Components. This feature allows you to differentiate between multiple instances of a component within a structure using find numbers.

• Update: Select component rows and update their attributes. You can update multiple components with the same attribute changes using a single action.
• Delete: Remove the component from the structure permanently and integrate the component into a delete group. You must add the component deletion request to the delete group.
• Disable: Specify an end date to a component. You can also edit the component to specify the end date.

Update Substitutes

You can assign any number of substitute items to each structure component, and you can assign the same substitute item to more than one component. The substitute item quantity is the quantity needed to replace the full component quantity. The quantity can differ from the component usage quantity.

Planning bills and model, option class, and planning components can't have substitute components.

You can add substitute components with or without a change order. When you add the substitute component:

• in the change context - the organization is assigned only when the affected item is in the Completed status.
• through import - the organization is assigned on the completion of the job, or on the completion of the change order if the item is added to a change order.

You can’t assign substitutes to inactive organizations.

Component Reference Designators

A reference designator is a sequence of comments and instructions that pertain to a component. For example, drawings that clarify the assembly process for certain components, or further instructions for the use of a large quantity of the same component. You can specify whether to assign one reference designator for every usage of the component or assign more than one reference designator to the component.

You can indicate whether the reference designator is related to component quantity.

Planning bills and model, option class, and planning components can't include reference designator.

Component Item Usage

The Where Used tab enables you to view component item usage in other structures.