Distributing Variant BOM (bills of material) with ALE

Hi all,
we need to distribute variant BOMs from one client to another in the same system. But in SAP standard it's not possible to distribute variant BOMs with ALE.
Has anyone an idea, how we could manage it?
Best regards!
Heike

Have you tried message type : MATERIALBOM_CREATEBOMGROUP ,but i think you need to create custom program.
Anurag

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