Diagnosis
You are carrying out an unplanned material exchange (UME) for thesubcontract purchase order item with a quantity greater than 1.Additionally, you are using consumable materials that you have enteredin the component level of the purchase order (possibly also withquantity greater than 1).
You have exchanged the original material with two or moreinterchangeable materials during UME and split the quantitly in the UMEdialog box.
When creating the new subitems in the purchase order, the system istrying to distribute the quantity of consumables proportionally betweenall new subitems. The automatic distribution is a proposal from thesystem.

System Response
The system updates the purchase order and creates new subitems. Thesystem then carries out automatic distribution of the consumables. Inthe application log of the Subcontracting Monitor, a warning message isissued regarding automatic distribution for each relevant subitem.

Procedure
In the purchase order, check whether the automatic distribution of theconsumables is correct and adjust if required.