[ B E N E F I T S ] Reduce costs through better resource management Enable more precise management of materials, components, and assemblies, including their costs, locations, and routing sequences for tighter control of finished goods, lower costs, higher productivity, and greater profitability. Build better, more flexible bills of material Create different types of bills that meet the specific needs of your products: engineering bills, manufactured bills, configured bills, archived bills, even super bills that manage all options on the configurable products you produce. Delight your customers Eliminate delays by providing bills with alternate components built in to respond to potential shortages. Pass along savings derived from tighter control of costs and materials. Track with greater accuracy Maintain an active bill of materials for each item to track components currently in use and manage bills in production. Engineering bills make visible the effects of engineering change orders on costs and integrate easily with other applications. You can also maintain an unlimited number of archived bills, as well as create phantom bills for subassemblies that do not get stocked as an inventory item. Improve production processes Exert more control over manufacturing by precisely managing the details of product components. Getting a firm handle on parameters like start and end dates, lead times, and shrinkage factors can help drive down cycle times, increase throughput, and make you more competitive in accelerating markets.

By tightly integrating different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure that materials are where they should be, when they are needed.

Gain flexible control over inventory and production processes with a "tree view" Graphical Bill of Materials for entry and inquiry.

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Deliver Materials where they are needed by linking components in routings for bills of materials.

Graphical Bill of Materials
Work flexibly with manufacturing bills of material by using intuitive, graphical bills of materials for entry and inquiry. By keeping bills of materials precise and up-to-date, and helping ensure materials are available when needed, you can improve inventory record accuracy and production process efficiency.

• Update entries, edit revision levels, and save revision histories.
• Modify existing bills of materials and change categories - for example, from Phantom to Regular - at any time.
• Trace components back to their parent items.
• Modify component attributes such as lead time offset, effective dates, and shrinkage factors.
• Implement changes quickly by adding, removing, or editing a component on multiple bills of materials in one step.
• Respond quickly to new demand by copying and modifying existing bills to create new ones.

Reference Indicators
Help ensure error-free production with reference designators that indicate where a component will be used on a finished good.

Recipe or Formula Production Support
Specify the order in which items appear on the BOM and picklist with BOM position numbers. Include multiple instances of an item when used in different production sequences.

Mass Update of Bills of Material
Implement changes quickly by adding, removing, or editing a component on multiple bills of material in one step.

Easy Access to Engineering
Attach an unlimited number of drawings to bills to ease understanding of critical elements and build instructions.

Easy Subcomponent Identification
Where-used lookups simplify identification of subcomponent usage within other products.

Usage Assessment
Attain better insight into materials utilization. Set subassemblies or raw materials to be back-flushed - or record real-time usage during production. Assess genuine usage by applying scrap and shrinkage factors to components.

Rich Component Tracking Detail
Track component quantities per finished good unit, as well as a fixed quantity per manufacturing order.

Multiple Measurement Capability
Bill components may be entered in any unit of measure that exists on the components Unit of Measure schedule.

Designated Security Levels
Set up bill preferences to reflect the information you want available to specific users.

Item Engineering

Mission-Critical Information Management
Maintain precise management control of mission-critical information for key production parameters like effective dates for finished goods and components, revision levels, shrinkage factors, issue-from and issue-to sites, and make/buy status.

Comprehensive Tracking
Track shipping weights as well as units of measure.

Fulfillment Designation
Define production methods as "make-to-order" or "make-to-stock."

Lot Management
Enter the number of days from purchase or manufacture to when the items in the lot are no longer suitable for use.
 

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