BOM IN CRM Only for Service Contract

Question

Hello
We want have a BOM explosion working in CRM for service contracts
Here are the details :
We have replicated the materials from ECC to CRM. We are not maintaining any BOMu2019s in ECC.
The idea is that we maintain the BOM Structure in CRM only, as we donu2019t want to have the Items as a billable item in a position, only for information purposes (or later on for metering)
We have maintained the product category for the header product in CRM so we are able to maintain depended components
(Relationship type SCDEC  S Dependent Components (DC) )
Not we are able to assign dependent component to the header material
Item category groups:
We understand that the standard item category groups that should be used are ERLA for the header product and LUMF for the Item product.
In order to support the same functionality for the given item category group , maintained at the product level in ECC we copied the same setting for the item category group from the standard to
our settings.
Standart
Tx type     Item Cat Group          item category     structure scope
TA             ERLA                TAQ           A single level Explosion of Structured Product     
TA         LUMF                TAP                   A single level Explosion of Structured Product     
So we have copied TAQ to ZTAQ and TAP to ZTAP.
ZS01 is a copy of SC (service contract)
Tx type     Item Cat Group          item category     structure scope
ZS01     ZLEI                       ZTAQ          A single level Explosion of Structured Product     
ZS01     LEIS                       ZTAP          A single level Explosion of Structured Product     
But when we use a header product in the service contract, we cannot see the BOM is exploding.
We have also created some products in CRM with exactly the same Item Category groups as the standard and when we create a standard order (TA) in CRM, the BOM is NOT exploding.
Questions:
Is it possible to have the BOM setup only in CRM, like we try to do it?
Is it possible to use our own item category groups in CRM more is the functionality only working with ERLA and LUMF?
Is it possible to use the BOM Explosion in Service contracts as well ?
What steps are we missing to get the BOM explosion in CRM ?
Thank you for your help
Frank
Edited by: Frank Foerstner Foerstner on Dec 9, 2011 12:34 PM

Answer 1

Thanks Nablan, I could do that for multiple header coming in file. But I have a question for you on BAdI ALM_ME_006_GOODSMVT. I have implemented this BAdI , and this BAdI is called by a function Module ALM_MEREP_006_CREATE. When I test this FM giving the Material , Orderid and Movement type entries, this BAdI is triggered when giving a breakpoint. I've given this code for changing the movement type to 961. Cause the stanadrd scenario does not maintain Movement type 961 in Mobile Asset Management. The Movement type 961 for unplanned Materials comes to SAP and changes to 261 as maiantained by TCOKO table. To bypass this & retain the movement type 961 in SAP I'm using this BAdI. Currently this is what I'm doing and am stuck in the method interface how do I call the method.
method IF_EX_ALM_ME_006_GOODSMVT~CREATE .
break-point.
*DATA : i_ce_goodsmovement TYPE REFERENCE
          ALM_ME_CUSTOMER_ENHANCEMENT.
DATA : lr_badi_goods_movement TYPE REF TO if_ex_alm_me_006_goodsmvt.
DATA : ls_user_data TYPE ALM_ME_USER_DATA-USERID.
*DATA : goods_movement TYPE ALM_ME_MATERIAL_MOVEMENT.
CALL METHOD lr_badi_goods_movement->create
  EXPORTING
       ce_goodsmovement = ce_goodsmovement
  IMPORTING
       user_data        = ls_user_data
       custom_user_data = ls_ce_user_data
       goods_movement   = goods_movement
  changing
       return           = return[].
CALL FUNCTION 'ALM_ME_COMMIT_OR_ROLLBACK'
       TABLES
            return = return.
endmethod.
Please help me to get the data in this method. How do I call this.