Bills of Material ERP Module

The Bills of Material Module ensures your organization has complete control over product structure. By managing the product structure customer service, engineering, purchasing and production are all working from the same database.

Seradex Bills of Material module was developed to incorporate the principles of lean manufacturing. If you have instituted lean manufacturing efforts you need to make sure your software can support you. The Bills of material architecture supports JIT purchasing, electronic kanban and vendor managed inventory (VMI). The Bills of Material module provides the fundamental building blocks for scheduling, costing and inventory control. Seradex offers functionality to flatten multi-level Bills-of-material.

Does your company have projects that involve complex sales, production, engineering and purchasing requirements? Managing all materials needed for project-oriented Engineer to Order (ETO) companies is challenging. Many departments are involved. The Bills of Material Module allows you to accommodate an evolving Bills of material, deploy standards and collaborate employees, customers and suppliers. In addition integration with CAD software can be initiated. This boosts competitiveness, margins and efficiency

Your Material Challenges

• Manage complete product structure information including materials, labor and sub contracting
• Roll up cost totals by material and labor
• Drill down through each parent and child item
• Duplicate and change Bills of material for estimating and work orders
• Allow unlimited levels and unlimited children on each level

Our Solution

• Effectivity Dates controlled by ECN
• Unlimited product revisions and alternate routings
• Identify and calculate parametric components using the Product Configurator Module for sizes or options
• Copy Bills of Materials
• 20 or more levels
• Prevent recursive items
• Manage Engineering Change Control
• Roll up standard and most recent costs
• Routings include set up, run, work center, tools, employee and detailed work instructions
• Incorporate labor and overhead cost changes

• Update standard costs with most recent costs
• Allows mass change or delete
• Incorporate Material Scrap
• Measure yields for each material
• Qty per - no limit on decimal places
• Can be integrated to CAD software - AutoCAD
• Can drive parametric Bills of material

Management Reports

• Where Used
• Indented Product Structure showing both material and labor
• Assembly pick list Report
• Summarized Bills (All parts are listed with a total for each part summarized - each part is shown only once)
• Costed Bills - Costed at Actual, Standard and Most recent
• Indented Bills of Material (Parts only)
• Routing Report (Routings Only)

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