An alternate bill describes an alternate list of component items that produce an assembly. An alternate routing describes an alternate manufacturing process that produces an assembly.

To create or update an alternate:
1. Navigate to the Alternates window.
2. Enter an alphanumeric string to describe a unique alternate.
3. Enter a date that the alternate is inactive on. As of the inactive date, you can no longer assign the alternate to a bill of material or routing.

Once an alternate is defined we can create different BOM/Routing structure of the same item with different alternate names.