Types of structures you can compare and propagate

Using an accountability check, you can compare the following pairs of source and target structures:

• EBOM and MBOM to see which of the EBOM parts are aligned to the MBOM

• Product and product

• Process and product to see if all parts are consumed

• Process and process

• Process and plant

• Generic BOP and product BOP

• Product BOP and plant BOP to see which of the product BOP processes and operations are already allocated. It is also possible to see if any data was changed in the product BOP processes and operations after these were allocated to the plant BOP.

• Product BOP and product BOP

• Plant BOP and plant BOP to see any differences when they have a common product BOP as origin.

After comparison, you can propagate changes between the compared structures.

Note

BOM-BOP propagation depends on the properties mentioned in the MEAssignProperties preference.

The following is an overview of the types of structures you can compare.

		Target
		BOM	BOP	Generic BOP	Product BOP	Plant BOP	Part BOM	IDC	4GD
	BOM	X	X		X	X		X
	Design BOM						X
	BOP	X	X					X
	Generic BOP			X	X			X
	Product BOP				X	X		X
Source	Plant BOP					X		X
	IDC							X
	4GD	X

Note

You can compare two revisions of the same BOM, BOP, or plant BOP structure. You can compare item IDs, item revisions, item revision and BOM line attributes and properties, and quantity for pack/unpack lines. This provides a better understanding of what has changed from one structure event to another, including which objects were added or changed, which were updated, and which remain the same. To compare two revisions of the same structure, open each in its own structure and run an advanced accountability check using the top lines as source and target.

Related Topics

• Propagating changes in compared structures

• Setting up the accountability check