Bill of Material Explosion - Best Practice

HendrikDeCuyper

Hi, 

 

Pondering my head around a Supply Chain use case where a bill of material explosion is required with an undefined amount of steps to get to the lowest level.

 

This should be an iteration where an SKU can have a one level explosion or up until 6 levels of bill of material. 

 

What is the best practice of Anaplan to set this up? 

 

Thinking of a hierarchical way where when the iteration should stop we fill in the levels with dummy data to get the calculation to work until the lowest level.

 

Open for any advice!

 

Thanks,

Hendrik

anirudh

Hi Hendrik,

You can construct this as a ragged hierarchy in Anaplan. Basically, just a single list with parents as members of the same list. Each child can have a unique number of parent(s). The challenge however is that modules can only be dimensioned by the lowest members of this list.

Another possible option is to set up a module with each line item as a list member. Then create line item subsets at each unique level (so 6 line item subsets) and use COLLECT. The drawback in this option is that any new additions require manual maintenance, each new SKU would need to be added manually along with its formula

The last option I can think of is to force a balanced hierarchy by creating 6 lists for each level with dummy members at each level to serve as parents for the children that need them. The drawback here is that the number of levels should be fixed. For instance if you have 6 levels right now, adding a 7th level would require an entirely new list.

These are the only options I can think of!

Regards,
Anirudh