About Alternate BOMs

The Alternate ID field allows you to specify a routing that can be used as an alternative to an item's current routing. The current routing must exist before you can create another alternate for an item, and you cannot create alternate BOMs for revision-tracked items.

An alternate BOM does not have current or standard costs. Therefore, it is not possible to roll current cost to standard cost.

Jobs using alternate BOMs appear as a cost variance.

Note: Alternate BOMs do not affect the capability to promise (CTP).

Specifying Alternate BOMs

You can specify alternate BOMs on the Engineering Workbench form. You can also specify alternate BOMs manually.

Using Utilities

Alternate BOMs can be processed with these utilities:

Delete BOM Components
Substitute Bill of Material Components
Change Cost Rates

Generating Reports

Alternate BOM information is printed on these reports:

Indented Costed BOM Report
Item BOM Where Used Report
Item Current Routing Report
Single Level Current BOM Report