Flexible Bill of Distribution

Use
You can use this function to simplify the assignment of products to a bill of distribution
(BOD).

Features
There are two ways of handling BODs in the system:

 Static BOD

 Flexible BOD

In the case of static BOD, a BOD can only be assigned to a product if the product exists
in all of the locations of the BOD as a location product.

Flexible BOD simplifies the maintenance of BODs and their assignment to products. In
the case of Flexible BOD, the restriction that the product must exist as location product
at all locations of the BOD that is being assigned to it no longer exists. Consuming
applications consider the product at only those locations of the BOD where it exists as
location product.

The following restrictions must be observed to maintain the consistency of the BOD:

 If a location product exists at a certain BOD location, a location product for the
product must also exist at the parent location of this BOD location.

 A location product must exist at one entry point of the BOD at least.

 If a location has a virtual child location in the BOD, but no location product of the
product exists at any of its physical child locations, the virtual child location is
considered as a location without location product.

Note
The two ways of handling BODs do not exist simultaneously in the system, you must
choose between them and make the relevant settings. If you choose to use flexible
BOD, for example, the system assigns BODs to products according to this logic in every
case.

Activities
To use flexible BOD, in Customizing
choose Extended Service Parts Planning Master Data Hierarchy Define Bill of
Distribution (BOD) Type, and select Flexible BOD in the BOD Type field.