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Bill
of Material
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 A
strong bill of material processor can help manage and analyze the components
and products your company produces. Macola ES's Bill of Material (BOM) module
gives you those features. Plus, BOM is extremely flexible, incorporating powerful
visual tools that integrate with Shop Floor Control (SFC) and Production Order
Processing (POP) modules.
Important advantages of
Bill of Material are:
- Graphically interactive
BOM maintenance
- Support make-to-order
Multiple options selectable within a single feature
- Gross Requirements
Reporting, for basic material planning
- Costed BOM Report
- Bill of resource
This is a very interactive
and graphical interface for maintaining your BOM. If Standard Routing (S/R)
is used, Bill of Resource allows you to view routings graphically. Optionally,
historical BOMs and engineering changes can be displayed and maintained as
well.
BOM's Visual Bill of
Resource establishes the link between a single inventory item and
the components that comprise the finished good. Each component includes a
Reference Designator which allows you to detail exactly what it does and where
it can be found. You also have the option to print Reference Designators on
BOM's Indented Report or on production work orders. Plus, you can choose to
display Reference Designators in the view function to quickly access information
for further reporting power. A BOM is created by specifying the relationships
between pairs of items where one is a parent (an item that is assembled with
other components). A parent will have relationships with one or more component
items. The same components may be used in many different assemblies within
your manufacturing facility to construct different parent items. You specify
each component-parent relationship through the graphical environment.
BOM also provides you
with the ability to define how much of each component is normally scrapped
or lost in shrinkage, allowing you to be more accurate in estimating component
usage.
In addition, BOM tracks
component level effectivity dates and default locations for each component.
This allows you to phase material in and out, managing engineering changes
based on date effectivity.
Various safeguards assure
valid data. For example, BOM prevents you from making an item a component
of itself, or from using an item that is not defined in the Inventory Management
(I/M) package.
Feature/options
configuration
There are times when it is appropriate to configure a product to meet a customer's
unique requirement. The Feature/Options Product Configurator application,
which comes as part of BOM, enables you to establish rules-based configurations
for use in the order entry process.
This BOM application also
enables you to analyze the features (or parent items) along with options (or
components). This gives you the flexibility you need to configure your products
with all of the options a customer may need. Plus, Feature/Options Configuration
enables your system to maintain top-speed performance by eliminating the need
to specify a separate bill for each minor option your company offers on an
individual product.
Bill
of material view
BOM's View function
allows you to easily display the bill of material for any specified item.
There is an option to "blow through" phantom items, showing components that
are either stocked or controlled, with the first level displaying components
normally stocked. You can also optionally display obsolete or forecasted items,
along with the Reference Designators.
Costed
bill of material
This report allows you to print a costed bill of material for any range of
parent items you select. You also have the option to choose whether or not
to update the item cost in the location. This update option only appears when
the inventory cost method is last, standard, or average.
Gross
requirements report
BOM provides the ability to analyze how future orders for parent items will
impact inventory levels. Select a quantity of a parent item or items and print
a report showing component requirements at all levels. At the same time, the
report displays inventory status information to compare component requirements
to what is currently available and on order.
Summarized
bill of material
The Summarized Bill of Material details all the components of a specified
parent. It is called "summarized" because each component is shown only once,
regardless of level, summarized by quantity-required (per this parent). This
summary detail drills down to the lowest level that the component appears
in the parent's structure. This is the classical parts list where each part
is listed once along with the total quantity required to make one parent.
One, a few, or all parent items may be selected to print on this report. You
also have an option to print only purchased items or a summary to limit the
level of components.
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