Define Spare Part Indicators

The spare part indicator is used to identify a BOM item as a spare part. This indicator can be used, for
example, to create lists of spare parts.

In a BOM explosion, you can use the spare part indicator to restrict the items selected.
The indicator does not interrupt the explosion of the BOM to the lowest level. There are two steps to the
BOM explosion:

First, the system explodes the entire BOM, regardless of the indicators selected to restrict items.
You do not see the result of this explosion on the screen.

Second, the system reads the indicators selected to restrict items, such as the Spare part indicator.
These indicators work as filters. The result of the explosion you see onthe screen only includes the
items that fulfil the selection criteria. In this case, only the items with the spare part indicator you
select are shown.

Example

Spare parts can, for example, be grouped according to maintenance cycle. Spare parts that need to be
replaced after a machine runtime of 100 hours are given spare part indicator A and spare parts that need to
be replaced after 500 hours are given spare part indicator B.

Actions

Define the spare part indicators you want to use.