The BOM Module is responsible for bills of material and for the material requirements planning (MRP) process. The module also manages material orders for small jobs that only require a material list and simple back flushing capability. The key features are as follows:

The children on Component type bills can have negative quantities which allows dekitting.

Modular type bills contain a list of choices instead of children, which compresses the number of bills required to make a product that can be configured.

Variable type bills allow numeric information to be entered, such as how many inches, pounds, or units are needed to make a product.

Kit type bills support kitting at the sales order level by automatically allocating the components in inventory when an order is taken for an item that is a kit.

Phantom type bills will pass the demand through to the components without creating a demand for the phantom item. You can also select to have stocking or non-stocking phantom items in inventory.

Bills of material can have revision levels with active and inactive dates.

Individual components can have active and inactive dates to facilitate the replacement of components that do not affect the form/fit/function of a bill and thus do not warrant a new revision level.

A bill can be set up to behave as a normal component type of bill or as a bill which can be configured before it is used.

How a bill will allocate its components when it is used on a work order can be set based on:

A bill can be set as Peg Exclusive, which forces any on hand inventory for the item being made by the bill to be ignored when MRP is run.

Components on a bill can be arranged in part number order or by the Find Number sequence that you enter.

Each component on a bill has an unlimited scratch pad area for entering notes.

Scratch pad notes are printed on the indented bill report and can be used for things such as specifying circuit board locations for the component.

Top level bills, which use modular and variable bills as part of their structure, can take the place of many bills. This approach improves bill accuracy, thus reducing inventory and reduces the overhead associated with creating and maintaining bills.

Bills can have any number of predefined configurations associated with them and have unique item numbers assigned to the different configurations.

The configuration capabilities of the BOM Module are used to support

Each bill can have up to two images assigned to it.

The format of the images on bills can be ICO, BMP, JPG and GIF.

Each image on a bill can include an unlimited description.

Each bill can have a note with unlimited text attached to it.

Material orders can be processed in the BOM Module.

A material order is a light duty work order that is designed to quickly process shop orders that do not require labor reporting or scheduling.

Material orders can be used concurrently with the standard work orders.

Material orders can be easily converted to work orders if the demands of the order change.

Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) is done within the BOM Module.

The MRP process supports both bucketed and bucketless planning and can be run for any range of dates.

The bucketed process develops time-phased data and accumulates it in either weekly or monthly time periods.

The bucketless approach develops time-phased data and displays it using dated records instead of buckets. This method permits you to see the detail of the MRP process such as the purchase orders, sales orders and work orders.

MRP may be run for

MRP may be limited to

The MRP process can be used as a material shortage report by including only records that fall below safety stock levels or zero on hand stock.

The MRP report can integrate the recommended orders from the Plan Module to show their effect on the material planning process.

Synchronous Manufacturing is supported by including the production floor schedule in the MRP report.

The Costed BOM report will roll up costs based on either