Compare Bills Of Material
Application component: Fiori UI for Material BOM
App type: Transactional
Line of business: R&D and Product Management
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Integrated Product Development (S/4)|Product Development Foundation (S/4)
Description:  With this app, you can compare two BOMs to understand the similarities and differences between the compared BOMs. We refer to the BOMs being compared as the primary BOM (BOM 1) and the secondary BOM (BOM 2). Primary BOM (BOM 1) Secondary BOM (BOM 2)  The item data of this BOM is used as a starting point for the comparison. The item data of this BOM is compared with the item data of the primary BOM.  You can compare: Same BOM with different alternatives and validity dates. BOMs with different plants to know how the production process is different across plants. Different BOM types (Sales order BOM and Material BOM) to understand how “as engineered” product structure differs from “as sold”. BOMs with different BOM usages. Version BOMs and date-effective BOMs.  The app also allows you to analyze the comparison and provides a detailed comparison result. 
An application to compare two bills of material (single and multilevel)
Key features:    Search for BOMs that you want to compare. You can search based on the material, plant, BOM usage, alternative BOM, validity date, sales order, sales order item, or a plant by efficiently making entries in the key fields. You can also customize the search criteria for the advanced search.   Specify the criteria for comparison to identify the similarities or differences in the BOMs. By default, the system selects the material type, item category, and component quantity as criteria for comparison.   Compare single BOM with different alternatives or validity date or compare two different BOMs.   Compare versioned BOMs and nonversioned BOMs.   Explode the BOM down to the lowest level and compare in multilevel comparison.   Provides different views of the comparison result. For example, differentiated, summarized, BOM 1 versus BOM 2. The comparison results are also illustrated using colored bars and icons.   View comparison details of the compared items in a side panel and you can filter the fields that are relevant and not relevant for comparison.  Edit the BOM component by navigating to the Manage Product Master Data app.  
Business roles: Administrator - Recipe Development| BOM Engineer| BOM Engineer - Customer Order| Development Manager - Discrete Industries| Design Engineer| Master Data Specialist - Maintenance Management
Administrator - Recipe Development : 
Performs special, rarely occuring maintenance tasks related to Recipe Development, like Pure Substances, Allergens etc. and ensures consistency of the database.

BOM Engineer : 
Creates bills of material and consistent overall product model, drives changes across organizations, and is responsible for the change process until handover to manufacturing. Is typically a member of the R&D group of the company.

Master Data Specialist - Maintenance Management : 


Design Engineer : 
Creates product designs, i.e. functional specifications, CAD drawings, etc. Is typically a member of the R&D group of the company and is measured by the quality and innovation of his outputs in line with given design targets.

Development Manager - Process Industry : 
Manages a team of formula developers and analyzes changes and their impact in line with given targets.

Development Manager - Discrete Industries: (is an add-on role to the Development Manager)
Manages a team of design enegineers and analyzes changes and their impact in line with given targets.

BOM Engineer - Customer Order : 
Maintains bills of material and component configurations for customer orders.  Aligns with the sales and product engineering teams until the handover to manufacturing.