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Show Item or BoM? It’s Up To You (03.2025)

SAP software offers features that simplify your SME’s operations. Every week, we share tips that highlight how these features can benefit your business.

This week, we’ll show you how SAP Business One lets you customize the way you view bills of materials and article master data. Through a new option, you can choose whether you want to view parent articles directly or whether you prefer to view child articles in the bill of materials, making navigation more practical and flexible.

Its quite common to see people and things that fulfill multiple roles and serve multiple purposes. Computer used for work and gaming, customers may also be vendors, and … certain items are also parent items in bills of materials.

By default, when clicking the link arrow next to an item code which is also a bill of materials, the Bill of Materials window opens showing the child items. But what if you actually prefer to see the item master data of the parent item? For that purpose, SAP Business One introduces new option allowing you to decide whether the link arrow would open the Bill of Materials window or the Item Master Data of the parent item:

You can change this setting at any time. By default this option is not selected.

Available in SAP Business One 10.0 PL00 and SAP Business One 10.0, version for SAP HANA PL00.