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There are no transactions unique to Bill of Materials. That is, transactions involving Bill of Materials are Purchase Orders whose SupplierID is internal and whose Explode field is checked. Those Purchase Orders provide the input demand for Explosion.

 

The steps to set up Bill of Materials for Production are…

 

Enter or Import Items into the Product table

All items in the Master and Detail tables must exist in the Product table.

If there are any Master or Detail items, which don’t already exist in the Product table, then they must be entered or imported into the Product table.

 

Enter the Master and Detail tables

Use the Bill of Materials maintenance task to enter the Bill of Materials definitions directly into these tables.

 

Import the Master and Detail tables

If you are converting an existing computer based Bill of Materials, you may be able to Import your existing information into these tables. If you do this be absolutely sure that these definitions are correct. If you are not absolutely certain then enter this information using the Bill of Materials maintenance task so the system can guard against circular references.