Line Item increment nos. in S Order

Question

Dear Gurus,
Ours is a Mechanical process industry, though most of the items are NORM items, many are BOMs (LUMF), here the main item is a Model no. and the sub items are the parts in it according to the customers' requirement. In a Sales Order if I enter a LUMF and let it explode and enter another material, system will automatically take a multiple of 10 as line number, ie., after 14 sys will give 20. But after you enter the BOM and letting it explode and change the sub items and then enter a new material, system will give line item number as +10 to the last sub item number,  ie., after say, 14 it will be 24.
If you dont change the sub items the scenario is like this:
10  BOM 
11  Sub Item 01
12  Sub Item 02
13  Sub Item 03
14  Sub Item 04
15  Sub Item 05,    and then the next line item is given as:
20  Material XYZ
But if I do ANY changes to the sub items, the scenario is like this:
10  BOM 
11  Sub Item 01
12  Sub Item 02     and when I enter the next item then the next line is given as:
22 Material XYZ
How to stop this and let all new entries to be generated at multiplications of 10? I mean, what ever the last sub item be, the next entry should start at the next multiple of 10, ie., 20, 30, 40, 50, . . . . . .
Hope my question is clear. Kindly help me here, if possible.
Thanks and regards.
Venkat - Hyd

Answer 1

Hi
After removing or changing the line items (which is not supposed to be done, since it is a BOM material).....please check in the colum HLv Item(higher level item) next to quantity column...whether the value 10(main line item number) is existing or not. As long as it exists, these line items are to be considered as sub items and for the new line item in the sales order the item number increment should happen related to the previous main item (10). If there is no value in the HLv Item, then the system considers this subitem as a main item and it increments the next line item with 10 from this (originally sub item but considered as main item now) and hence it is shown as 22 (12+10).
System makes the item number increment based on the previous line item number (main item or sub item).
Please check your order and post the findings.
Thanks,
Ravi