Generic BOMHeader business object

The generic BOMHeader business object is a representation of a bill of materials structure used in various business processes. This business object is used to transfer bill of materials information among an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Interaction Management (CIM) application, or a supply planning application. Bills of material (BOMs) represent material requirements and product structures in a manufacturing environment. These requirements include raw material and possible material substitutions if specific material is not available when needed. BOMs list all component parts needed to make one assembly of the parent item and show how each component relates to the parent. BOM information is a primary input to the production planning process.

Business object structure

The generic BOMHeader business object is a hierarchical business object that includes a header and one child business object, BOMItem. Cardinality is n.

BOMHeader includes the following header information:

BOMItem includes the following component information:

Supported verbs

BOMHeader supports the following verbs:

Examining the object

To examine the attributes of the generic BOMHeader business object, System Manager.

Note: The generic BOMHeader Version 2 business object is not backward compatible with the generic BOMHeader Version 1 business object.

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