BOM and routing

In this procedure you can create new manufactured, purchased, and fictitious parts, in case you do not register them in the Part register procedure. Here you can add and update operation lists and material lists (bills of material = BOM) for the parts.

Before you can create BOM and routing, you must first have registered work centers in the Work center A work center is a part of the factory. It can be a single machine or a group of machines, a single workstation or a group of workstations. register procedure.

It is possible to create new parts, including BOM and routing, by copying an existing part using the function Save as found in the toolbar of the procedure. The information copied by default is information registered about the part in the part register and the BOM and routing. Therefore, it is recommended that you create a part that can be used as a template for new parts.

BOM and routing is one of the most important and fundamental functions in an ERP system like Monitor ERP. The information that is entered here, such as operation times, quantities, lead times, and prices, is important information that is applied throughout the entire system. The information from the BOM and routing is used in calculations, requirement calculations, and loading plans.

It is possible to prepare BOM and routing both according to the detailed BOM and routing and the summarized BOM and routing principles. The summarized BOM and routing means that the middle levels of a structure are not included, and that a summarized routing and bill of material is created at a higher level.

It is possible to apply alternate BOM and routing. You then create a "maximum BOM and routing" where you add all operation rows and material rows which might occur and select terms for them, to make them function as additional rows, replacement rows, or deletion rows in the BOM and routing. The information you can select terms for is: Finish date (on manufacturing order, but concerns Delivery date on the customer order row), Quantity, Customer number, Order, Revision (main part), Variant code, Part status, and Warehouse (available if that option is installed).

Alternate BOM and routing can be used, e.g., in order to configure different models of a part, so that different rows only apply for a certain revision, for a certain customer, etc. The terms you enter for a part in the BOM and routing are taken into consideration when registering manufacturing orders, when making pre-calculations, and are also shown in level lists, operation lists, and material lists.

By using the option Product configurator it is possible to configure entire products. Then you will instead create a basic BOM and routing (or a "mini-BOM and routing") which only contains the operation rows and material rows which are in common for all variants/models of a product. The BOM and routing is then linked to a configuration group containing all different components (parts) which can be added to the basic BOM and routing. These are in their turn included in different option lists. By using rules, it is possible for you to determine which components in an option list that can be combined, which components that will be excluded or included depending on other selected components. It is also possible to have customer-made products where you enter the measurements via different variables in the configuration. By using formulas you can create advanced configurations where the formulas determine both quantity and price. The configuration of a product is performed in connection to registering customer orders. Read more about the Product configurator under Using Monitor in the online help function.

By using the setting Enable hourly planning for work center, you can determine if planning should be done per day or per hour. No is selected by default in this setting. This means that day planning is selected by default and the result of this is that the queue time will be shown in work days for the work centers. If you select hourly planning, the queue time will be shown in hours. If you wish to apply hourly planning, you must first select a schedule cycle for each work center.

In the operation list of the BOM and routing, you can use the button Summarize reported times to update a BOM and routing with actual reported times per operation based on reported manufacturing orders. The average setup and unit times can be loaded back to the BOM and routing.

If you are using the option Warehouse it is good to be aware of the following. The part register is general/joint for all warehouses, so is the BOM and routing. However, the work centers are each linked to one warehouse, and this means that the operations can belong to different warehouses. The material belongs to the same warehouse as the work center of the operation. On the material rows there is a lot sizing rule (LSR) which is saved per warehouse in the part register. But which lot sizing rule that is suggested on a material row is determined by which operation the material is linked to and the operation's warehouse via the work center.

At the very bottom of the window you can see information about who created and most recently modified the information for the current record and at what time. Using the button you will access a log containing all modifications.

If the system setting called Comment changes in BOM and routing has been set to Allow comments or Mandatory comments, a comment will be logged together with the change in BOM and routing. Please note! You must use Tab to activate the OK button.