Adding Bills of Material

Sage ERP Accpac Inventory Control 6.0

Adding Bills of Material

Many non-manufacturing companies repackage items or assemble items before selling them. Inventory Control contains an assembly function designed for these situations. You can use the assembly function to assemble bills of material that you create.

You create a bill of material to define the component items and quantities, and the fixed and variable costs, required to assemble a specific number of units (build quantity) of a master item.

Inventory Control lets you create multilevel BOMs so each component item can be a subassembly with its own component items.

An assembly of a bill of material takes component items out of inventory and creates a supply of master items. If you allow negative inventory levels, you can assemble a master item even if its component items are not in stock. The costs of the components are transferred to the master item.

If you assemble the same master item from different components (for example, using alternate items), you must set up a separate bill of material for each version of the master item.

Build quantity

The build quantity is the number of master items that one assembly of a bill of material produces.

Fractional build quantities are allowed if you select the Allow Fractional Quantities option in the I/C Options form.
For the build-quantity unit of measure, you can use any of the units of measure specified in the master item record. Example

Assigning numbers to identify bills of material

You assign each bill of material (BOM) a BOM number, up to six characters long, which uniquely identifies it. If you want to assemble the same master item with different components, you specify a different BOM number for the second bill of material. BOM numbers can contain uppercase letters and numbers.

Fixed and variable costs

When you add a bill of material, you can specify fixed and variable costs associated with assembling the master item.

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