A transposed digit buys the wrong steel
Put a find number where a part number belongs and SAP will accept it without complaint. You find out when a pallet of the wrong plate arrives against a purchase order nobody questioned.
The handover is where good designs go wrong
Not in CAD, and not in SAP. In the gap between them, where a structure that was correct becomes a structure that was typed.
A unit code nobody agreed on
The export says LT. Your plant reads it as litres; the material master was set up in long tons. The quantity is now out by three orders of magnitude, and every downstream requirement with it.
A quantity that rounds away
Adhesive at 0.0004 becomes 0.000 at the precision SAP keeps. Planning derives no requirement, procurement orders none, and the line discovers it during build.
A part that exists, but not here
The material is in the master and has simply never been extended to your plant. It is the single most common reason a BOM transfer stops, and it is invisible until it stops one.
Three steps, and none of them are data entry
Open a page in your browser. Nothing to install on your machine.
Drop the export in
The Excel file straight out of Teamcenter — indented levels, revision keys, trailing spaces and all. Pick the plant it is being built at. No cleaning up the spreadsheet first.
Read the pre-flight
Every line checked against the material master before anything is released — and the problems named in mechanical English, against the row number you can see in Excel.
Release the assembly
One action, one transaction, one BOM number back with a receipt. Either the whole structure lands or none of it does.
What it catches before Purchasing does
Each of these stops the release and says which line, which column, and what to do about it — including who owns the fix, because most of them are not yours.
Parts the plant cannot build with
A component that does not exist in the material master, one that exists but was never extended to this plant, and one that has been flagged for deletion. Three different problems with three different owners, and it tells them apart.
Units that mean two things
Ambiguous codes are never resolved for you. You are shown both meanings — litre or long ton, centimetre or cubic metre — and you choose the one your plant uses. A unit is also checked against the base unit on the material itself, so grease measured in pieces is caught even though the code is perfectly valid.
Quantities that would post as zero
Anything that rounds away at SAP's precision is refused rather than rounded, with the consequence spelled out: no requirement derived, nothing procured, and a shortage discovered on the line.
Structures that cannot be built
An assembly that contains itself, a component whose parent is missing from the export, two components sharing one position number. The structural mistakes that a spreadsheet will happily hold and a plant cannot manufacture.
Nothing partial ever lands
The failure this exists to prevent is not a rejected transfer. It is a transfer that half worked.
All of it, or none of it
One bad line in sixteen hundred and nothing is released. A BOM missing a component is not a smaller BOM — it is a wrong one, and planning will run against whatever landed.
Release twice, safely
Every release is fingerprinted. Click again and you get the same BOM number back from the record, with nothing sent a second time. Duplicates are not something you should have to be careful about.
A receipt you can file
The BOM number, the component count, when it was committed and a fingerprint of the exact file that produced it — so six months later there is an answer to what was released and when.
It reads your PLM system. It never writes to it.
Bridge Origin works from an export. Your Teamcenter data is untouched, the file you exported is left exactly as it was, and the tool runs on your own machine or your own server — your product structure does not go to anybody's cloud to be processed.
Ready to demonstrate
We demo against a local S/4HANA sandbox that enforces the same handshake and returns the same error envelopes as a live system, so what you see refused is what SAP would refuse. Bring your own export and we will run it in front of you.
Connecting to your S/4HANA
Pointing it at your own system is a deployment step we do alongside your Basis and master-data teams — service user, authorisations and field mapping confirmed against your configuration before anything is released for real.
Questions engineers actually ask
Do I have to reformat my Teamcenter export first?
No. Bridge Origin reads the Excel file Teamcenter produces, including the parts of it that are awkward by nature — indented dot-depth levels, occurrence and revision keys appended to item IDs, trailing spaces, and the assembly header line that has no quantity of its own. Reformatting the spreadsheet by hand is the work it exists to remove.
What happens if one line out of sixteen hundred is wrong?
Nothing is released. A BOM missing a component is not a smaller BOM, it is a wrong one, and a half-posted assembly is worse than no assembly because planning will run against whatever landed. Bridge Origin reports the bad lines with the row numbers you see in Excel and releases nothing until they are resolved.
Can it tell a litre from a long ton?
It refuses to guess. Unit codes like LT, ST, MT and CM mean different things in different plant configurations, and being wrong multiplies or divides a manufacturing quantity. Bridge Origin flags the ambiguity, shows you both meanings, and lets you pick the one your plant uses. It will not resolve it silently.
What if I click release twice?
You get the same BOM number back and nothing is sent again. Each release is fingerprinted, so an identical file is recognised as a repeat and answered from the record rather than posted a second time. Duplicate BOMs are not something you should have to be careful about.
Does it change anything in Teamcenter?
No. Bridge Origin reads an export. It never writes to your PLM system, and the file you exported is left exactly as it was.
Bring us a BOM that gave you trouble
The most useful demo is not ours — it is yours. Send an export that caused a problem, or one you are about to release, and we will walk your team through exactly what the pre-flight says about it and what SAP would have done with it.