Once you have entered the product structure records of the manufactured products, you can proceed to perform several inquiries by entering a reference date. Links having a validity start date after this date or a validity end date before this date are ignored. If no link is valid, a message appears.
Gives the list of the valid links on the reference date.
If you select a line and you click on OK, the component code is entered for you in the Item code field of the Bills of material maintenance window. This function is not available if you have called the Bills of material maintenance window from the item maintenance window.
Displays the bill of material of a product down to the lowest level. Every component is itself decomposed into its own components, until the lowest level of the bill of material (made up of the purchased items, which have no bill of material).
Displays the list of the components down to the lowest level by cumulating the required quantities each time a component is found during a product decomposition.
Same presentation as the cumulative bill of material but includes only the purchased components.
Gives the list of items having the reference item as direct component.
If you select a line and click on OK, the component code is entered in the Item code field of the Bills of material management window. This function is not available if you have called the Bills of material Maintenance window from the Item Maintenance window.
Gives the item uses, moving from lowest to the highest level of the bill of material. It lists the items that do not enter in the composition of any other item.
This function lists the cumulative where-used of a component in the top level items whatever is its position in the sub-assemblies.