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Alternative Item Group in BOM
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Alternative Items in an Alternative Item Group

An alternative item group is used to group together alternative items in a BOM. Any of the materials in
the alternative item group could be included in the assembly. These items are known as alternative
items in the BOM.
You can use alternative items in the following situations:
Alternative items with a usage probability

The alternative items are included with a certain usage probability.
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Material requirements planning (MRP) uses the usage probability to determine

dependent requirements for the materials.
In the production order, dependent requirements are converted to a reservation.
The withdrawal posting for the reservation in the production order uses either the
usage probability or the 100% availability check according to ATP logic.
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Data for Alternative Items

Use
When you enter an alternative item group for the item, you can enter the Priority, Strategy, and Usage
Probability in a dialog box.
Features
Usage Probability
Material requirements planning (MRP) plans the alternative items according to usage probability.
If you use the usage probability to determine the withdrawal posting (strategy 1), the quantities are
proposed according to the usage probability. You can change the proposed quantities.
An alternative item is only planned if the usage probability is at least 1%.

If the usage probability is 0%, a dependent requirement with quantity 0 is generated for the
material.
The component with the quantity 0 is displayed in the planned order. If required you can
increase the quantity there.
It is possible to plan too much for alternative items, because you can enter usage probabilities
that add up to more than 100%.
Priority
The priority of an item within an alternative item group determines the sequence in which material
components are reserved in the production order.
Strategy
The strategy is only relevant to the withdrawal posting in the production order. The strategy is ignored
in MRP.
You use the strategy to determine how the items within an alternative item group are selected for the
withdrawal posting. Use the same strategy for all alternative items in an alternative item group.
The following strategies for withdrawal postings are supported:
Withdrawal according to usage probability (manual changes possible)

Withdrawal if availability is 100%

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Strategy 2 (100 % Availability):-
Strategy: Example
If you use this strategy, the availability checks uses, ATP logic according to the priorities you define.
100% Availability
Gross requirements: 100 pieces
Calculating issue quantity for 100% availability
Material
A
B
C
Percentage usage
probability
20
30
50
Priority
1
2
3
Planned
requirement qty
20
30
50
ATP
qty
30
150
180
Issue
quantity
0
100
0
The required quantity of the first material in order of priority that covers 100% of requirements is
reserved (material B).
The system sets the usage probability of the reserved material to 100%. The quantity and usage
probability of the other alternative items (materials A and C) are set to 0.
Missing Parts Situation

When none of the alternative items cover the requirement 100% on the requirements date, the
availability check confirms a 0 quantity for all the items. This means that there is no reservation.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Demonstration:In the Bill of Material all the alternatives have 10 as the required quantity for 1 base quantity
For component 40000555 priority 1 is given, strategy 2 is given and usage probability is 30%

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For component 40000666 priority 2 is given, strategy 2 is given and usage probability is 40%
For component 40000777 priority 3 is given, strategy 2 is given and usage probability is 30%

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------While the stock of materials is as follows
40000555
7 quantity
40000666
12 quantity
40000777
14 quantity

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Planned order is created and is converted to production order.
Production order shows all materials are available

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the component overview of the production order only item 40000666 shows requirement 10 and
other two materials having zero requirements as item 40000666 is having higher priority than
4000777 and can satisfy with the quantity available
Goods issue to the order

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Only material 40000666 is issued
Order shows 10 quantities withdrawn for 40000666 material.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Strategy 1 Manual Maintenance/by usage probability: - In this strategy all or more items can be
chosen with the usage percentage.
Strategy 1
Material
Usage Probability
40000555
30%
40000666
40%
40000777
30%

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Alternative Items in an Alternative Item Group

Alternative items with a usage probability

Material requirements planning (MRP) uses the usage probability to determine

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Data for Alternative Items

An alternative item is only planned if the usage probability is at least 1%.

Withdrawal according to usage probability (manual changes possible)

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Missing Parts Situation

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Production order shows all materials are available

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Goods issue to the order

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Order shows 10 quantities withdrawn for 40000666 material.

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