If you use a staging journal to release products with a BOM, you cannot manually enter a BOM number. Therefore, a BOM number sequence is required in the engineering company to automatically number BOMs.


Standard procedure

1. Go to Organization administration > Number sequences > Number sequences.
2. Click Number sequence.
3. In the Number sequence code field, type a value.
4. In the Name field, type a value.
5. In the Scope field, select 'Company'.
6. In the Company field, enter or select a value.
7. Determine what format you desire for your BOM IDs
8. Click Add to open the drop dialog.
9. In the Area field, select an option.
10. In the Reference field, select BOM.
11. Click OK.
12. Leave Manual set to ’No’ as the number sequence is used to automatically generate BOM numbers in Product engineering.
13. Close the page.

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