Parts lists show which components make up a target article or target product.
Only the target product appears for your customer on all documents such as quotations, orders, delivery notes and invoices.
This target product can be continued dynamically in the event that components change or even expand over time. BOMs are always recorded in the corresponding order so that it is always possible to trace the version in which the BOM was drawn here.
Only in the picking process step, i.e. with the final reach into the warehouse, is the BOM broken down and displayed in the last valid version. This means that it is always possible to see which components have been included in the target product.
The components and thus individual components can be material and goods as product types.
The costs of the elements in the bill of materials are totalled from the inventory prices of the individual elements and can thus be referenced to the quotation, order and product. In this way, the achievable margin and costs can be tracked directly against the offer price/order price and thus very early in the process, well before the cost centre postings are considered.
Tip: the creation or continuous updating of parts lists can be very time-consuming. A feasible method is to manage some of the BOM components via a Kanban system instead of posting them via the BOM (example: standard screws). This saves costs and still ensures that all components are available.
Tip: A product: Small parts flat rate 1 can be helpful for displaying the cost side in the bill of materials.
Products that consist of a bill of materials cannot have a supplier and no reorder and maximum stocks.
Products with parts lists in orders are always reserved in quantity across all components, the stock is only debited when the order is available, which then runs into partial picking/picking/delivery/invoice.
We have created a csv import to be able to quickly and easily import parts list elements into parts lists or to fill them from a pre-system. This is based on the UTF-8 format in the following structure:
Product | product number | Quantity (base unit) | base unit | Stock price (base unit) |
Product A | 1 | 4,00 | piece | 0,00 |
Via the command Upload and replace command completely rewrites the parts list.
The command Upload and add command is used to extend the parts list so that hybrid parts lists can also be created.
All products that appear as elements in a parts list are used as
used in products
referenced with a name and number. This helps to make changes consistent and to always keep track of which product is used in which.
Parts lists can reference a product in a base unit or alternatively in a sub-unit, we total the inventory prices according to the selected valuation method and can then already show these in the quotation and in the order. This is particularly helpful when analysing the cost-effectiveness of products that consist of several individual parts.
Parts list types
We recognise 2 different types of parts lists in Scopevisio:
The bundle or set BOM, where we identify a target product from at least 2 products.
The production BOM, in which we primarily want to use different steps to visualise partial products and intermediate products.
We recommend using the exchange with our experts here to support your organisation as best as possible in the course of your process. It turns out time and again that the manufacturing bill of materials approach and thus controlling a manufacturing process is not the most efficient for all structures.
Product types in BOMs
When using BOMs, special rules apply to the permitted product types:
Physical products (material or goods) can have all types of products as components in BOMs.
Rights or services can only be combined with rights or services as components of a single type in parts lists.
These specifications ensure that BOMs are structured consistently and that the resulting reservations and order proposals are mapped correctly.