The Bill of Material module identifies a standard list of items, or components, required to produce a different, or parent, item. It defines the relationships between items being produced and the items needed to produce them. A produced item can be composed of one or more items which might be purchased, assembled, fabricated or changed in some way to create a new item. This new item may be sold directly, or used itself to make another item in a product’s structure.
These bills of material are used by other modules within Fitrix to streamline business processes, provide effective planning tools, and to manufacture products in a consistent and timely manner.
- Production Order Processing – uses standard bills of material when creating production orders to manufacture products. The standard bill is copied to the production order bill as a starting point
- Material Planning – uses standard bills of material to plan strategic production and purchases, in support of a longer term production plan
Features/Function Highlights
Item Maintenance
- Global entry option
- Departmental entry option
- 80 character description
- User-Defined units of measure
- Multiple units of measure per item can be used for purchasing, and selling
- Multiple user-defined reference table entries
- Multiple user-defined fields
- Single-Level and cumulative lead-times
- Phantom items
- Inventory and non-inventory items
- Unit cost breakdown includes Material, Labor, Setup, Overhead, Outside Process
- Direct access to additional maintenance for Bill of Material, Standard Routing, Warehouse balances
- Unlimited notes for additional description
Bill of Material Maintenance
- User-defined component sequencing
- Multiple uses of same component with same parent
- Component links to standard routing
- Bill of material copy
- Component mass replace
- Component mass delete
- Bill of material delete
- Component effectivity dates
- Alternate components
- Parent component notes
User-Defined Reference Tables
- Product code
- Group code
- Commodity code
- Accounting code
- Planner code
EOQ Calculator
- Analyzes movement history to determine optimum order quantity
CMLT (Cumulative Material Lead Time) Calculator
- Analyzes indented bill of material, standard routings to determine overall time to buy/make
Inquiries
- Item availability
- Bill of material: Single level format, Indented format, Access to notes
- Component where-used: Single level, End item
Reports
- Item list
- Sales catalog – quick reference for pricing, description
- Bill of material: Single level format, Indented format
- Component where-used: Single level, End item
- Component Effectivity