BOM BOS Interface
BOM BOS Options in SAP EHS Management
Do you know how many different “BOM BOS” interfaces are delivered by SAP? According to my analysis we have three as part of these solutions:
- SAP EHS Management Classic
- SAP Product and Reach Compliance Suite
- Component Extension for SAP EHS Management
If you would add SAP Recipe Management then may be we can say: there are four “similar” solutions.
Any of them does have some benefits. At least you can not use them at the same time. This is confirmed by SAP regarding the first two (there is a corresponding OSS note available; check e.g. http://www.stechno.net/sap-notes.html?view=sapnote&id=1404115)) and I assume the same is true for the last solution as well.
How can you use these solutions? The answer is: if your company is mainly “mixing” chemicals without chemical reaction the use of BOM BOS interface can help you during the maintenance of the data. The “BOM header material” will be linked to one REAL_SUB; the BOM items as well to REAL_SUBs and in doing so a “BOS” is generated. Now if you properly prepare a set up of e.g. the classic BOM BOS interface you can run rulesets based on the data maintained on the REAL_SUBs.
The whole topic depends on the strategy how you would like to use this tool/these tools or precisely how you manage your material master in combination to REAL_SUBs. Using BOM BOS it is not easy to “combine” many materials to the same “chemistry” to avoid generating too many REAL_SUBs.
Some discussion are running in this FORUM regarding BOM BOS interface. Most of them are related to SAP EHS Management classic interface. I assume that the “roll out” (that means more and more companies wil may be use this solution) of “Component Extension” solution might change this.
SAP EHS Management Classic
This solution is described here:
Chapter:
Bill of Material Transfer
SAP Product and Reach Compliance Suite
This solution is described here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_rc20sp02/helpdata/en/90/ffb0cf41c74aae9c72b26737d26d4f/frameset.htm
Chapter: Taskmanagement
Component extension for SAP EHS Management
This solution is described here:
Chapter:
Creating Product Structures by BOM-BOS Transfer
For those who would like to dig deeper: may be check: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40810
For those who need more references: This thread contains a lot of links to other threads regarding BOMBOS transfer in classic EHS: BOMBOS transfer SPRO settings and technical details
Thank you for your link about BOMBOS for "Component extension". Can you explain two quistions here Basic Material creating and editing are not working, Specification Type doesn't exist? I think, that Basic Material is Prerequisite for BOMBOS.
Best Regard!
Hi Christoph,
Technically I would say there are two different BOMBOS interfaces:
(1) The EHSM Classic BOMBOS interface
(2) The BOMBOS interface of the SAP Product and REACH Compliance / EHSM Component Extension, as SAP PRC is the predecessor of EHSM CE Product Compliance and both solutions can not run in parallel.
The main difference between (1) and (2) is that the EHSM CE BOMBOS interface (2) creates specifications automatically for BOM items if no specification exists for a component in the BOM and that multi-level BOMs can be transferred in one run. There are also some more user exits in (2) that allow more complex BOMBOS extensions.
The BOMBOS in EHSM CE Product Compliance compared to SAP PRC BOMBOS has some further functionality to create (additionally to the EH&S specification) the new Business Objects (Compliance Data Objects) for SAP EHSM Product Compliance.
Best regards,
Andreas
Dear Andreas
thanks for valuable feedback. I hope that your feedback will help other people to check solutions options if needed. As there is less chance that SSAP PRC will be developped further and in regards of SAP EHS Classis for BOMBOS the same, I would expect that, if needed, only BOMBOS solution of Component Extension will be enhanced in the future.
C.B: