Single BOM across multiple plants in sub-contracting

We have a single purchasing organisation managing sub-contracting for around 17 plants. This organisaiton purchases sub-contracted items for all the plants.
The problem we are facing is having to maintain the same BOM for all the 17 plants.
The central purchasing org is going to create the PO with multiple lines - requesting delivery from the vendor to the different plants.
How can we avoid having to create the same BOM in every plant?
Regards,
Praveen.

hi
u can avoid by choosing the recurrcive allowed for BOM can avoid it
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