Use Up and Alternative Materials (tibom0150m100)

	Use Up and Alternative Materials (tibom0150m100) Use this session to view in which bill of material (BOM), this component is defined as use-up or alternative materials. Related topics Using up remaining stock of outdated items Alternative materials in BOMs To define alternative materials Alternative Item The alternative material. Note The alternative item must be a non-configurable item. For more information on procuring purchased configurable items, refer to Procuring configured items in Assembly Control - Master Data Setup Procuring configured items in Assembly Control - BOM setup Product variants - Purchased configurable items Allowed values If the item is a project item, the project must be equal to the project of the main item. Main Item The main item of which you want to maintain the use-up item or the alternative items. Site The site ID. Related topics Multisite overview BOM Position The component's BOM position number. Position The position number identifies the material. Alternative Priority The priority based on which the alterative material usage is determined. LN considers the alternatives based on specified priority. Allowed values Use up This material is an outdated material ( use-up material) that must first be used up. 1 The alternative that will be selected if the inventory of the standard material, and the use-up material, if any, is insufficient. 2 The alternative that will be selected if the inventory of the standard material and the first alternative material, and the use-up material, if any, is insufficient. 3, 4, 5, ... Lower priority alternative materials. 9 The lowest priority alternative material. Related topics Searching for alternative and use-up materials Effective Date The date on which the validity of the materials or the operations is checked. The application considers a material or operation to be valid, if this date is within the effective date and the expiry date range. The effective dates are used in the explosion process to create demands for the correct items. Expiry Date The date when the validity period of an entity ends. In the case of effectivity control the reference date is checked against the expiry date. If the reference date is greater than or equal to the expiry date the configuration entity is not valid anymore. Net Quantity The quantity of a component or material that is theoretically required to manufacture a certain quantity of a product. This quantity is referred to as the net quantity because in practice you may require more than this quantity to make up for certain losses of material or product during the production process.