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Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer

Martin Preiß — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:48:14 +0000

Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer (ABASC)

Transparency across product structures – from suppliers to customers and back

In SAP systems, information on bills of material, materials, suppliers, customers, stocks and requirements is distributed across numerous standard transactions.
A consistent, context-rich view across product structures is missing – especially for complex, multi-level BOMs and cross-plant scenarios.

PREISS Consulting Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer (ABASC) is an SAP add-on for manufacturing companies that consolidates this information into integrated, mass-capable evaluations.

ABASC combines:

Bills of material (top-down and bottom-up)
Material masters and dependent objects
Suppliers and sources of supply
Customers and sales context
Stocks, requirements and consumption

into a single, consistent view within the SAP system.

zu einer gemeinsamen, konsistenten Sicht innerhalb des SAP-Systems. ABASC supports, among others:

Analysis of multi-level product structures
Top-down and bottom-up, cross-plant and with quantity relationships
Material analysis including dependent objects
Transparency across relevant master data and their existence
BOM usage analysis
Compact mass analyses with material, supplier and customer context
Source of supply analysis
Transparency across suppliers, supplying plants, single- and multi-sourcing, and country dependencies
Integrated operational context
Display of stocks, requirements and consumption directly within the analyses

All evaluations are dialog-capable, filterable, variant-driven and designed for large data volumes.

Typical use cases for ABASC include:

Ramp-up of new product structures or changes to existing BOMs
Transparency for purchasing, MRP, logistics and supply chain management
Analysis of supplier and customer dependencies
Evaluation of single-sourcing risks and country dependencies
Support for questions related to tariffs, sanctions and supply chain regulations
Increasing supply chain robustness
Analysis and preparation of transformation and harmonization initiatives
Improved explainability of purchasing and planning decisions (e.g. sources of supply)

View presentation: The presentation provides an overview of objectives, functions and typical use cases.

System Demo or pricing request: Please contact me to arrange a system demo or to discuss pricing.

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Neues Add-On: Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer

Martin Preiß — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:53:03 +0000

Heute gebe ich das neue Add-On „PREISS Consulting Advanced BOM Analytics, Supplier to Customer“ frei, an dem ich die letzten zwei Jahre neben meinen Kundenprojekten gearbeitet habe. Deutlich länger als zuerst erwartet.
Ich bin aber sehr zufrieden mit meinen Entscheidungen und dem Ergebnis.

Die erste wichtige Entscheidung war, ein Gesamtpaket zu bilden, das neben der neuen Verwendungsanalyse und neuen Versionen von Stücklistenbrowser und Materialübersicht auch neue Transaktionen für Bezugsquellenfindung und Kundenbezug enthält. Außerdem bin ich froh darüber, dass ich den Lieferanten- und Kundenkontext konsequent realisiert habe und die Bezugsquellenfindung sowohl über Einkaufsstandardfunktionen als auch über Simulationen von MRP (Classic) und MRP Live eingebaut habe.

Die Übersicht über die gesamte Kette von Lieferanten über die eigenen Produktstrukturen – mehrstufig und über Werksgrenzen hinweg – bis zu Kunden sollte für viele Anwendungen branchenübergreifend hilfreich sein. Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass sowohl Anfänger als auch Experten Freude daran haben werden, so viel Kontext wahlweise entlang der Stücklistenstruktur oder als Materialliste zur Verfügung zu haben, mit Absprüngen in die zugehörigen Transaktionen.

Zum Beispiel hätten mir diese Transaktionen bei meiner Einarbeitung in SAP sehr geholfen, um die Zusammenhänge der Daten aus unterschiedlichen Anwendungen zu verstehen. Heute nutze ich die Transaktionen gerne, um Beispieldaten schnell zu sichten oder aufzubauen.

Gespannt bin ich auch auf Anwendungsmöglichkeiten mit AI-Tools. Meiner Meinung nach sind die Zusammenhänge in SAP nirgends so exakt dokumentiert, dass AI Auswertungen in ähnlicher Qualität liefern könnte. Umgekehrt bietet die Bereitstellung dieser Informationen über so viele Objekte und deren Zusammenhänge in so dichter, exakter und strukturierter Form neue Chancen für eine intelligente Weiterverarbeitung – sowohl für operative als auch für strategische Zwecke.

Am komplexesten war vermutlich die Berechnung von Gesamtmengen im mehrstufigen Verwendungsnachweis, insbesondere wenn es mehrere Fertigungsversionen und Stücklistenalternativen gibt. Und natürlich gab es viele, viele zeitraubende Details, zum Beispiel bei Sonderbeschaffungsabwicklungen und rund um die Bezugsquellenfindung.

Marketing wird sicher wieder nicht einfach sein, aber AI-Tools helfen tatsächlich nicht nur bei der technischen Umsetzung, sondern auch dabei, die Hemmschwelle zu überwinden, Texte zu veröffentlichen und aktiv zu werden. Ich nutze Gamma zur Präsentationserstellung sowie ChatGPT und gelegentlich ergänzend Grok für Texterstellung und Fragen, zum Beispiel rund um die Homepage.

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Where Used BOM Browser

Martin Preiß — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 11:01:37 +0000

Where Used BOM Browser

The Where Used BOM Browser by PREISS Consulting provides transparency to Product Data Managers and Supply Chain Planners regarding material usage in bill of material (BOM) structures.

Flexible and efficient selections, along with user-friendly displays, enable diverse analyses of mass data, including cross-plant views and contextual information such as material price, plant inventory, consumption, and demand across product structures.

For SAP S/4HANA On-Premise and SAP ERP

Price on Request

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Add-On BOM Browser improved

Martin Preiß — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:00:45 +0000

Target Group SAP PP User and IT Professionals

Summary

The BOM Browser with Master Data Check got even better

Content

My Add-On BOM Browser with Master Data Check meats considerable customer demand and I implemented enhancements:

Multi-plant selection
Optional cross-plant BOM explosion. Stock-transfer via special procurement key is treated similar to an extra BOM level. The BOM explosion proceeds in the supplying plant.
Display plant stock
Visualization of phantom assemblies, subcontracting, stock transfer and regular in-house production with icons
MRP Area specific BOM explosion via production version determination and storage location determination
Separate counters for WM control cycles and Kanban control cycles
Additional report for material evaluation with master data check without BOM explosion. This report contains more material data and is ideal for fast and flexible material evaluation with focus on checking PP/MM master data and viewing material details.
Settings for reaction on missing production version or source list: Error, Warning or No Reaction

BOM Browser with Master Data Check – Tree View

BOM Explosion with Plant-to-Plant-Stock_Transfer

Visualizing different types of assemblies: Subcontracting, Phantom Assemblies, Stock Transfer, Normal Inhouse-Production

You find more info here.

I’m looking forward to comments and questions.

Do the SAP standard transactions for mass evaluation of BOMs satisfy your requirements?

How robust is your workflow for creation and maintenance of materials and related master data for production and procurement? How useful would be a mass evaluation of materials with existence information (in form of counters) for assigned master date (routings, BOMs, source list, infor records, control cycles, production versions) for you?

Would you see the benefit of using the BOM Browser with master data check mainly in

Master Data Mangement for checking existence of critical master data?
In Product Costing for viewing multi-level BOM structures across plants, with plant stock and valuation data?
In Logistics, e.g. for monitoring stock in BOM structures or checking existence of WM or Kanban control cycles?
In Production Planning as an overview of BOM structures with stock and MRP parameteres. Maybe enhanced with coverage data or summarized requirements and receipt

Do you have ideas for other use cases or improvements?

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Universal Data Converter (UDC)

Martin Preiß — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:16:41 +0000

The Universal Data Converter (UDC) of T-Systems is a certified SAP Partner Solution for seamless integration of product (Bill of Materials) and process data (activities and Line Design) in SAP.

I provide development and consulting services for customer specific adaptions of the UDC solution

rule-based conversion of Engineering Bill of Material (EBOM) to Manufacturing BOM (MBOM)
trigger-based mass synchronisaton of EBOM changes to the MBOM
automatic adjustment of production orders and network activities to changes in the MBOM
dialog transaction with hierarchical display of EBOM and MBOM, rules, production orders, network activities and exception messages with interactive changes of rules, production orders and network activities by drag&drop
consulting and development for customer-specific requirements for Make-to-Project and Engineering-to-Project processes with and without Variant Configuration

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BOM Browser with Master Data Checks

Martin Preiß — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:01:32 +0000

BOM Browser with Master Data Check

The PREISS Consulting BOM browser for SAP ERP and S/HANA On-Premise provides user-friendly mass evaluation of multi-level bill of materials. Master data existence checks for the BOM component materials are integrated. The reports shows existence and number of BOMs, routings, production versions, control cycles, purchasing info records, MM scheduling agreements, source lists and MRP areas for each component in the product structures. Missing essential master data (with respect to procurement type and special procurement key) are visualized with red icons. The check result is propagated bottom-up to the higher BOM level. BOM explosion considers MRP Area data and can be done cross-plant considering stock transfer via special procurement type.

The report can easily be enhanced with additional data and checks.

Price on request.

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Planning transactions for Make-to-Project

Martin Preiß — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 07:39:00 +0000

I implemented powerful planning applications for multi-level-planning and production of complex machinery for Siemens AG, Energy Sector: hierarchical display of sales requirements and their multi-level BOM explosion and planning situation. Planners, MRP controller, Project and Sales Manager use it to view and maintain confirmation dates and comments on requirement level. Multi-Level delay information and master data issues (e.g. missing BOMs or routings) is highlighted. With extensive navigation options to the various business objects and exception statistics .

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