BILLS OF MATERIAL OVERVIEW

Use Costpoint Bills of Material to set up and maintain the hierarchical relationship of parts as a bill of material (BOM) structure. You can plan and produce manufactured/purchased items, as well as plan and design parts/assemblies in an engineering environment.

Costpoint Bills of Material allows you to customize setup, establish/release manufacturing bills of material (MBOMs) for production planning and material requirements planning (MRP), and establish/release engineering bills of material (EBOMs). You can also make online BOM inquiries to view assemblies, and single-level or multi-level components of assemblies. Moreover, you can copy MBOMs and EBOMs into one another to allow a seamless exchange of part information between manufacturing and engineering environments. You also have a choice of reports for various modes of reporting and analysis.

If you selected the Separate Items By Company check box in the Configure Product Definition Settings screen, new items and documents will automatically be linked to the company of the user entering the item or document. Users logged into other companies cannot use these BOMs. You can also have multiple BOM records that are linked to different companies with the same assembly part (and revisions, if the Allow Multiple Revisions for Each Item check box is also selected in the Configure Product Definition Settings subtask).

If you did not select the Separate Items by Company check box, all items and documents in the database will be available to users in all companies. The MBOM or EBOM created for an assembly part (and revisions, if applicable) will apply to all companies. Users logged in to any company can use these BOMs.

The following menus are included in Costpoint Bills of Material:

Bills of Material

Use these screens to create, release, and maintain MBOMs:

• Manage Manufacturing Bills of Material

• Release Manufacturing Bills of Material

• Release Multiple Manufacturing Bills of Material

Use these screens to create, release, and maintain EBOMs:

• Manage Engineering Bills of Material

• Release Engineering Bills of Material

• Release Multiple Engineering Bills of Material

Use these screens to create and maintain end item configurations, copy BOM details to another BOM, replace all instances of one component (or subassembly) with another throughout an entire MBOM or EBOM, and compute costed BOMs:

• Manage End Item Configurations

• Copy Bills of Material

• Apply Mass Component Changes to Bills of Material

• Compute Costed Bills of Material

Documents

Use these screens to maintain and release documents that are needed for parts within a BOM:

• Manage Documents

• Release Documents

Work Centers

Use the Manage Work Centers screen to maintain work centers used by Costpoint Bills of Material.

Bills of Material Reports/Inquiries

Use these screens to view single-level or multi-level BOMs for various filtering criteria:

• Print Bills of Material Where-Used Report

• Print Indented Bills of Material Report

• Print Summarized Bills of Material Report

• Print Summarized Bills of Material Comparison Report

Use these screens to view assemblies where components are used:

• View Bills of Material

• View Where-used Bills of Material

Bills of Material Utilities

Use these screens to update low-level codes, check for looping parts, change planning type from no planning to MRP planning, and convert reference designators:

• Update Low-level Codes

• Convert Reference Designators from Short to Long

• Convert Reference Designators from Long to Short

Bills of Material Interfaces

Use the Import Bills of Material screen to import multiple BOMs using an input file.

Bills of Material Controls

Use these screens to establish configurations, parameters, and defaults used in BOM processing:

• Configure Bills of Material Settings

• Manage Configuration Identifiers

• Manage Document Maintenance Groups

• Manage Document Media

• Manage Document Sizes

• Manage Document Types