BOM in SAP (Bill of Material)

BOM in SAP stands for Bill of Material. For making a product or assembling, there needs
several components (part of product). A well structured list of these components is known as
BOM. The list will contain object number of each components and its unit of measure with
quantity.

Here is a list BOM that we can create.

Material BOM
Equipment BOM
Functional location BOM
Document structures
Order BOM
WBS BOM

In a product designing department, on designing phase the result will come up with product
drawings and the parts required for that. This list is BOM.

The BOM data acts as a basis for several activities in Production Planning (PP).See the below
list for some examples.

Design Department
MRP Department: BOM data can be used to calculate cost-effective order quantities for
materials
Work scheduling department: BOM data can be used for operation planning and control.
Production order management department: BOM data can be used to plan the provision
of materials.
Sales Order
Reservation
Product Costing

Technical types of BOM

Variant BOMs: A variant BOM consist of several BOMs for describing similar products which
have a lot of common parts. (Multiple products with similar parts)

Multiple BOMs: A multiple BOM consists of several BOMs for describing about different
configurations for a single product. (Variations of a single product with different parts)

BOM structure
BOM Header: maintaining the data refers to the entire object. Header contains the data for
identifying that BOM. It consists of the data like material, plant, revision label, technical type
etc.

BOM Item: It specifies about each of the component parts of a product. It consists of item
number, component, component description, quantity, unit of measure, item id and item category
etc.

Sub Items: Partial quantities of a BOM item may be installed at different points. Sub-items are
used to describe the different installation points of these partial quantities. Sub-items have no
operational function in the BOM.

Sample BOM tables

MAST: Material BOM assignment

DOST: Document structure assignment
EQST: Equipment BOM assignment
KDST: Sales Order BOM assignment.

Sample BOM tcodes

CS01: Create BOM

CS02: Change BOM
CS03: Display BOM
CSMB: Bom check for material