Add Bills of Material
Before
you start
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Decide on the bill of material numbers (BOM numbers) you will use. BOM numbers can be up to six characters long.
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Add the item records for the master items you will create and for the component items you will use when you assemble those master items.
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Collect the fixed and variable costs associated with assembling the master item.
See Adding bills of material for more background information.
To add bills of material for manufacturing inventory items:
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Open Inventory Control > I/C Items and Price Lists > Bills of Material.
Click here for help on Bills of Material fields.
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Use the Finder to select the inventory item for which you are adding a bill of material.
The item must already exist before you can add a BOM. (See Add Inventory Items.)
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Specify a BOM number or code. The number lets you define more than 1 bill of materials for manufacturing a master item. You must enter a BOM number (for example, "1").
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Click the Go button (
) to open the rest
of the fields, and then add a description for the BOM. -
Enter the fixed cost for setting up a manufacturing run.
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Specify the number of master items that 1 assembly of the BOM produces.
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Enter the variable cost for producing the build quantity of master items.
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Enter or choose the unit of measure for the build quantity.
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If necessary, specify a period of time during which master items can be assembled.
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Add the components to the bill of material.
Components can also be master items. You can change or add components to component BOMs.
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Click the Add button when you are finished adding components.
Additional
information — using
BOMs instead if kits
Bills of material are designed for manufacturing items from other items (or subassemblies) and for stocking the new items in inventory.
You can include fixed and variable costs with BOMs.
Kitting items let you group items and non-inventory items together for sale and for special promotions and sell them as a single item.
Kits do not have build costs, and the kitting item is not treated as a stock item (so there are no stocked quantities of the kit — only of the components).
For both kinds of assemblies, you must add the master item record and all of the component item records before you can define the kit or BOM.