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   <Header>
      <Title>Defining Bill of Critical Materials</Title>
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         <Level1>Defining</Level1>
         <Level2>bill of critical materials</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e169978">
         <Level1>Bill of Critical Materials</Level1>
         <Level2>defining</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>A BCM allows you to plan
		for bottleneck items in the production process. Typical examples of bottleneck
		items are components with long lead times, and subassemblies with a high
		capacity load for the internal or external production systems.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>An important feature in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> is the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd3120m000#cprpd320.cwar" role="manual">Warehouse</GUIRef> field in
		the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd3120m000" role="session">Bill of Critical Materials (cprpd3120m000)</GUIRef> session. You must fill this field
		to avoid that <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> explodes the dependent demand during a master-plan simulation
		to a different warehouse than it does during an order-planning run. If a
		warehouse is specified on the <Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000027" role="glossary">BOM line</Link> in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/bom/tibom1110m000" role="session">Bill of Material (tibom1110m000)</GUIRef> session, ERP Enterprise uses this
		warehouse to fill the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd3120m000#cprpd320.cwar" role="manual">Warehouse</GUIRef> field. If
		no warehouse is specified on the <Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000027" role="glossary">BOM line</Link>, ERP Enterprise uses the
		warehouse you specified in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd2500m000" role="session">Items - Ordering (tcibd2500m000)</GUIRef> session for the item. You can also fill the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd3120m000#cprpd320.cwar" role="manual">Warehouse</GUIRef> field
		manually.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>You can either define
		the BCM manually in this session, or click the Generate Bill of Critical
		Materials option on the Specific menu to let ERP Enterprise generate the BCM
		automatically. In the latter case, ERP Enterprise explodes the production BOM to the lowest <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#CriticBOMLev_ti" role="glossary">critical BOM level</Link> on which a critical item can be found. For more information, see <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000182" role="manual">Critical items</Link>.</Paragraph>
      <Note>
         <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
         <Paragraph>If ERP Enterprise makes a bill of
		  critical material, it takes the effective and expiry dates of the items, that
		  is, the item validity, into account.</Paragraph>
      </Note>
      <Note>
         <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
         <Paragraph>You can also generate
		  a BCM for generic items.</Paragraph>
      </Note>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000135" role="manual">To generate critical material requirements</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000182" role="manual">Critical items</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000020" role="manual">Master planning, an overview</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000149" role="manual">Plan levels and product families</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000406" role="manual">Warehouse on the BCM line</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>