Maintaining Alternative Items 

Prerequisites

Before you maintain alternative items, decide the following points for MRP and withdrawal postings:

  • Do you want to assign the same item number to all alternative items in an alternative item group?
  • Which character string do you want to use to group alternative items together in an alternative item group?
  • What is the usage probability for the individual alternative items in the assembly?
  • What are the priorities of items in an alternative item group?
  • Which strategy do you want to use for withdrawal postings?

Procedure

To maintain alternative item data:

  1. Select the tab page Material in the item overview.

You will find it easier to use the same item number for all the items in an alternative group. Change the item numbers if necessary.

  1. Select the items that you want to group together in an alternative item group.
  1. Click .

The item detail screen of the first item selected appears.

  1. On the Basic data tab page, enter the alternative item group in the group frame General Data and click .

You see the Alternative item data dialog box, in which you enter the following data:

– Priority

– Strategy

Enter the same strategy for all alternative items in an alternative item group.

– Usage Probability

If you enter a usage probability, then the alternative item serves as information. In this case, the system displays an appropriate warning message.

  1. Confirm your entries.

The system goes back to the item detail screen. The button is displayed alongside the AltItemGrp field. By clicking on this button you can later change the data.

  1. By clicking on , the next alternative item appears. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each alternative item.