Material & is not copied from the bill of material

Note 480829 – Material is not copied from BOM

Summary

Symptom
During the explosion of a bill of material, the system issues message V2003 “Material & is not copied from the bill of material.”.

Other terms
V2 003, V2003, bill of material, BOM, explosion, subitem

Reason and Prerequisites
Basically, the system always issues this message if it cannot transfer the subitems of a bill of material to the sales document.

The most common causes are:

1. The material short text is not maintained in the language you use. This language can be, for example, the language of the sales organization or of the sold-to party.
2. The material has a sales status which does not allow sales.
3. The BOM component has product attributes, however, this is not allowed in Customizing of the order type.

Solution

ad 1)
In Transaction MM02 ‘Change material’, maintain the material short text in the missing language.

ad 2)
Check the sales status. If the status was maintained as an error message, the component cannot be copied to the document. If the status was only maintained as a warning message, however, the component is still not copied, implement Note 157219 (valid up to Release 4.6A).

ad 3)
In Customizing of the order type (Transaction VOV8), check how the reaction to product attributes was set. If the ‘ProdAttr. messages’ field was set to ‘Error message’ (value ‘B’),the component cannot be copied. If, however, the field has the specification ‘Warning message’ (value ‘A’) or ‘No message’ (value ”), the component is copied.