Work Orders With Multiple Items - Context?

[phil]

If you need to issue a material for just one of the WO items then you need to have a separate WO for that item!
multiple item WOs are for items that are made together.

e.g.
item 1: an aluminium box
item 2: aluminium off-cuts

or out of chemical processing
item 1: refined petrol
item 2: tar

The combined BOM of both items includes sheet aluminium and the sum of both BOMs is the total aluminium requirement.

It could be that you are trying to use multiple item work orders for discrete items that are not outputs of the same process?