Searching for the closest match

When you search for a component across BOMs, Teamcenter looks for the closest match. This allows you to search for a component in one BOM that is a close match but not identical to a component in the other BOM. If it finds any instance of the component in the second BOM that has the same path from the top line item, it stops; otherwise, it detects if there are any instances of the component in the second BOM that share the same absolute occurrence of the component in the first BOM.