Access BOM Items

About this task

A Bill of Material (BOM) contains BOM formulations that define a list of items and the quantity of each BOM item needed to produce a product. In Route Editor, you can link BOM formulations to a route, and then link BOM items to operations.

Procedure

  1. Access the route for which you want to access the BOM items.
  2. Select BOM.
    The list of BOM items appear. The following table provides information on each column in the table.
    Column Description
    SEQUENCE The order of the BOM item in the formulation.
    MATERIAL The identifier of the product in which the BOM item is used.
    MATERIAL DESC The description of the product in which the BOM item is used.
    OPERATION The operation for which the BOM item is used.
    REQ QTY The quantity of the BOM item required to manufacture each serial/lot of the product.
    UPPER QTY The upper tolerance quantity of the BOM item that can be consumed.
    LOWER QTY The lower tolerance quantity of the BOM item that can be consumed.
    STORAGE UNIT Unit currently storing the selected product.
    SCRAP FACTOR The Percentage of the BOM item that is expected to be lost during production of the formulation.
    UOM The unit of measure of the BOM item.
    MANDATORY Identifies whether the consumption of BOM items is mandatory to complete the operation. The possible values are Yes and No.
    SUBSTITUTIONS The replacement materials available for that item as a substitution.
    Note: Select to synch the latest BOM item details. If any changes are made to BOM items in BOM Editor, the information in the BOM tab is updated accordingly.