Editing BOMs
Click the BOM option in Settings | Manufacturing | BOMs menu to set up and edit the basic BOM form.
Beforehand you can select between:
The menu offers you additional tools and options related to BOMs. You can copy and delete BOMs, and change components in BOM group. You can also perform checks for faults or loopbacks in structure.
Using this module you can edit and maintain multi-level BOM structure of products. In addition, use technological procedures to define production processes in individual modules. Thus even the most complex BOM structure assemblies and production processes can be processed in a straight-forward and easy-to-use way, delivering best-of-breed solution. This is the very purpose of PANTHEON application.
This topic covers mainly the editing of a BOM, that is, the editing and setting-up of initial BOM structure. Besides BOM, you can also specify a plan BOM. It is mainly intended for modifying specific plan lines. On the other hand, the purpose of a manufacturing BOM is to modify BOM structure of a work order.
The BOM contains default values underlying previously mentioned BOM types.
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HINT
See topic SPECIFICATION for a detailed treatment of the concept of specifications and their functionalities as well as differences existing between individual types of specifications.
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Always specify the BOM and technological procedure just for a single BOM module (assembly). That is, only for a single level of the entire (multi-level) BOM structure. Use BOMs to represent the entire multi-level product structure. Each BOM has a corresponding technological procedure.
Bottom BOM levels contain purchased materials (ingredients, raw materials) and at the top-most levels you can find finished products. Intermediate levels display semi-finished products. Note that BOM structure can be adapted to changes occurring in the business process.
Usually every BOM includes a material specification and technological procedure used in production. Occasionally, production processes are not executed due to their lesser priority. In such a case, technological procedure is not included in BOM.
The order in which you create individual parts of a BOM is not important. It is advised that you use a highly systematic approach to enter key data correctly and provide for flawless monitoring of manufacturing and stock tracking.
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Virtual assemblies or phantoms are a special type of item, or better put, specification.
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To create a BOM, start from construction documentation containing product data. That is, use standard technical BOMs of material consumption in production. Normally, the "construction BOMs" cannot be directly copied to a BOM because it has to be taken into account that it mainly handles of a technical operating BOM which must show the actual production process. It should also show the purchase (of materials and services) and sales process. Technological procedures used in production can be found in technical documentation of production processes.
For a more detailed treatmen of the concept, methods used and systematic approach of displaying data see BOMs.
Before actually trying to set up and edit BOMs, you have to define basic initial data in the appropriate registers. Create IDs of assemblies and components (lines of material and operations) in the Items register. Here you can also specify tools used in manufacturing.
Use PANTHEON to create BOMS for items of type P - Products (products/semi-finished products). Items used as phantoms (phantom assemblies) are defined as items of type C - Compound Goods or U - Compound Service.. In the end you can specify regulations in the Regulations register.
Specify resources (work centers, positions, machines) in the Resources register.
Set BOM properties in Program Parameters. Use Program Parameters to specify default values, field names and user-defined fields.