Planning with Alternate Materials

Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how we can plan for Alternate materials in SAP PP with ECC 6.0
My scenario is that we have a BOM for Material A which uses multiple components and if one component is not available than its alternate is used instead.
Material A: Base Qty 100 gms
Component A: Qty 10 gms
Alternate Component A: 7 gms
Component B: Qty 90 gms
Now what we want is that if Component A is not available Alternate Component A should be used in its place. We can manage this through Alternate Item Groups in BOM but this only works at execution level. Is there anyway how we can implement this scenario in such a way that MRP also generates requirements for Alternate Component A
Thanks!
Regards,
Hashim Abbasi

Dear Hashim,
In my understanding the system allows to maintain the priority,strategy and usage probability for the items grouped under
alternative item group.
Priority:This determines the priority for planned withdrawal of items.
Example:
Two items are assigned to an alternative item group (A1) with the following values for priority:
Item 0060 Value for priority: 02
Item 0065 Value for priority: 01
The system reads item 0065 first.
Usage probability:MRP plans these alternative material components according to probability of use.
In this field you enter a percentage to show the probability of using an object in production. Material requirements for the BOM
components are planned according to the usage probability.
The system does not consumes the items as per the stock availability automatically.
Check these threads to explore about alternative item,
concept of alternative items
Re: Alternative item in BOM
Re: NOTE 149332 : Error for material components with usage probability 0
Re: AltItem Group in BOM / Alternative Material
Check and revert.
Regards
Mangalraj.S

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