Entering Sub-Items 

Use

Sub-items are used to describe the different installation points of these partial quantities.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Bills of material (work step Item data → Define item categories), you can define whether sub-items are supported for each individual item category. In the standard system, for example, sub-items are supported for the following item categories: Stock item Non-stock item Variable-size item PM structure element

Procedure

You can start the function for entering sub-items either from an item overview or from an item detail screen.

  1. If you are on an Item overview, select the items for which you want to enter sub-items.

If you are on an item detail screen, start with step 2.

  1. Click Subitem.

You see the Subitems screen, on which sub-item numbers are already given.

  1. Enter the subitems.

You can enter the following data:

– Installation points

– Sub-item quantities

The system compares the item quantity to the sum of all sub-item quantities. If the item quantity is different from the sum of the sub-item quantities, the system changes the item quantity.

You see the following information:

Item quantity changed from <old value> to <new value>

– Sub-item description

Enter a descriptive text for the sub-item (up to 40 characters).

  1. If you have selected several items, you can switch between then sub-item overviews and the individual items using the and buttons.
  1. Click .

Result

On the item overview, all the items that have sub-items have the Sub-items exist (SIs) indicator.

Once you have entered sub-items for an item, you can only change the component quantity on the sub-item overview.

No history is stored for sub-items. If a change to a sub-item quantity leads to a change to an item quantity, a new item record is created. The sub-items are maintained separately for each item record.