Solomon Bill of Materials Altara

Bill of Material provides a comprehensive set of features in three important manufacturing categories:

Bill of Materials
Production Routings
Product Costing

The foundation of any manufacturing system is its product definition function. Product structures must be defined, usually on a multi-level basis, along with the instructions for how to build the manufactured item. Cap it all off with the ability to use these definitions to establish and manage standard costs, and you have the support functions needed for costing and production of manufactured and assembled goods. Bill of Material will help you define, manage, and analyze the products your company produces.

Product Structures
Before an item can be assembled or manufactured, any good manufacturing system needs to know what items are used in the manufacturing process and what quantities are required, adjusted by designated scrap factors.

Manufactured items are frequently built in a multi-level fashion. Single-level bills may be "nested" in any order to define a multi-level bill, thereby facilitating the documentation and cost rollup process.

Imagine being able to view these product structures using a familiar "explorer" type tool, navigating up and down the tree that represents the parent/child relationships between these parts.

If desired, a unique Bill of Material may be maintained for each site defined in your Inventory system. The same graphical representation is utilized when your task is to find where a particular part is used throughout your Bill of Material definitions.

Production Routings
Now that the parts that are going to be used in the manufacturing process have been identified, it's useful to be able to define and document how those parts are to be assembled and processed. For each Bill of Material you define, you may define a corresponding routing that does just that.

Define a simple routing, using minimal labor information, or make it more complex by getting down to move and queue time.

Standard Costing
Whether you are valuing your inventory at standard cost, or using one of the actual costing methods supported by Inventory, Bill of Material will build on the product structures and routings to help you roll up your standard costs.

If you recalculate your standard costs frequently, the robust tools to update and roll up costs will make your job easier.

Production Entry
Once you have established a multi-level Bill of Material, it may be used to relieve inventory for all components and increment inventory for the final assembly, using the rolled-up cost. Production Entry flexibly and easily converts your manufacturing plans into execution. Using backflushing inventory deductions, production entry can explode sub-assemblies into component requirements, ensuring that you keep accurate inventory levels for component, sub-assembly and finished goods items.

Support for Work Orders
When your requirement is to build the products you have engineered using work orders to track work-in-process, Manufacturing Work Order will make use of your product structures and production routings.

Bill of Material Sample Reports Include:

Bill of Material List
Component Where-used Lists
Standard Cost Change Preview
Actual Production Plan
Production Preview
Production Analysis
Shortage Report
Variance Analysis
Routing List
Routing List
Work Center List
Work Center Where Used Operation List
Labor Class List
Tool List
Machine List

Key Benefits:

Easily customizable and highly scalable

Supports connectivity with customers, vendors, business partners and employees

Robust, comprehensive functionality all-in-one source

Supports operations across countries, sites, languages and currencies

Key Features:

Microsoft Solomon SCM supports your entire business and delivers these key functions:

Advanced Shipment Management

Bill of Materials

e-Commerce Gateway - EDI Edition

Inventory

Landed Cost

Order Management

Order to Purchase

Purchasing

Web Order

Work Order

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