Managing the Bill of Material (BOM) is a key component in managing the definition of a product.An inaccurate or incomplete BOM can cause lost weeks in a schedule and result in wasted production runs.
Companies that do not leverage a PLM system to manage BOMs can suffer from inaccurate data, lack of revision control to view and track changes, and informal Change/ECO management processes.
Omnify PLM provides full Bill of Material management functionality including:
- Complete BOM revision control and audit trail
- Structured Change/ECO management process to control BOM (and other data) changes
- “Where Used/Not Used” information available on all items/parts
- Comprehensive importing/exporting/reporting to and from various file formats
- Direct integration with ERP system for automated BOM uploads/updates
- BOM comparisons (compare multiple BOMs)
- Complete BOM hierarchy viewing from a single form
Benefits of BOM Management:
- Eliminate manual BOM Management processes (Excel spreadsheets, file folders, etc.)
- Improve data integrity by eliminating error-prone manual BOM entry processes
- Implement streamlined/structured BOM Change/ECO processes
- Manage all released and pre-release/prototype BOM revisions
- Import data from any file format (Excel, XML, text, etc.) or directly from Engineering tools
- Ensure data accuracy through automatic uploads to ERP and other business systems
