Alternate Items in a BOM

I have a BOM for X which can make use of any component A or B or C in its BOM. The component A is always procured from China plant to the plant in India. I have set the usage probability of component A as 100 %.
But in my case I would require a situation where the system has check for component A in stock at china plant and if the stock for component A doesnu2019t exist then check for component B and then C so on from there it has generate an STO to the plant in China.
Please let me if itu2019s not clear.

Dear ,
Org Structure for India : one Chart Of Account -India Company Code -India Plant -Storage Loactions
Org Structure for China : CoA of China -Chiana company code -Chaina Plant -Storage lacation .
I hope if you look both them from Client level set up , they are totally differenet lgal entity .So neither you could check material availiblty cross clinent nor the STO (manual or MRP generated ) can be done to full fill the A/B/C requirement at India plant .
You may have to go to SAP APO -SNP /PPDS to fullfill this requirement where availabilty check and Transpotation Requirement can be eastablished .
Hope it will give you an idea on this requirement
Regards
JH

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Hi All,
I have the following scenario, i am creating a BOM in which for one material there are two alternate items. Here i mean if Material A is the main item, and if this not available then we need to use both Material B and Material C.
We have alternate items but this is a case of two items been required to replace one. How do I set the BOM in tis case?
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For This situation may be it is convenient apply Phanton?
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the Prod A and it is replaced by A1 , using option Discontinuation DATA
The Prod B and it is replaced by B1 using option Discontinuation DATA.
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Hi PP Gurus,
I was looking into the Alternate Item Group functionality in BOM and found it interesting for my business requirement.\
But I am facing one problem as below:
I have 3 components for Eg. A1, A2, A3 in my header material 'A'. All the three component materials are same but quailty of the 3 is different and also the standard price.
My requirement is whenever I am creating Production material for header material 'TEST_Header_Material, the system should look into A3 first (Cheapest), if not available then A2 (Cheaper) and if not then A 1(expensove of all the three).
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pl. guide....
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One of my requirement like this , in same alternative BOM I want to add alternative components with existing components.So please advise how to do.
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Aravind

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