How to create bills of materials

A bill of materials (also known as BoM or BOM) is an extensive list of raw materials, components, and instructions required to construct, manufacture, or repair a product.

In Viindoo, to create a new BoM, navigate to Manufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials and then press on the Create button.

Then you need to add the following information:

General information

• Product: a finished or semi finished-product that will be manufactured;

• Quantity: define the product quantity that will be manufactured based on this BoM;

• Reference: the sales/purchase order reference code for this BoM;

• BoM Type:

  • Manufacture this product: enable if the BoM is applied to produce this particular product.

  • Kit: allow managing incoming/outgoing bills of materials as a kit containing various products. For example: when you purchase a desktop PC, you can create a BoM kit including components such as a mouse, keyboard, monitor, CPU, etc. instead of having to process the receipt order of each part of this PC unit. This BoM type does not apply to manufacturing operations. Read more on Application of BoMs in Viindoo Sales.

  • Subcontracting: select this option if the BoM is applied to outsourcing products. To see this option, you need to activate the subcontracting feature.

Components Tab

Click on Add a line to define components and materials of this bill of materials.

• Component: include raw materials, and accessories participated in the manufacturing process;

• Quantity: define the number of materials that will be consumed during the production;

• Product Unit of Measure: the corresponding unit of measure of each component;

• Consumed in Operation: select the operation in which this component will be consumed.

Operations Tab

The Operations tab is displayed only when the Work Orders feature is activated.

Press Add a line to add different operations to produce this BoM.

• Operation: a production step to manufacture a product from the BoM;

• Work Center: represent all the resources that will participate in the manufacturing process, to transform raw materials into a finished product;

• Duration: the required time to perform an operation.

See also

• Manage Manufacturing process in Viindoo

• Create and use Alternative Work Centers

By-products Tab

Note

You need to activate the By-products feature on Manufacturing app to see this tab. Navigate to Manufacturing > Configuration > Settings to activate said feature.

• By-product: add the secondary product derived from the production process of this BoM;

• Quantity: the number of by-products that will be produced;

• Unit of measure: the unit of measure of this by-product;

• Produced in Operation: the operation where this by-product is derived from.

Miscellaneous Tab

• Manufacturing Readiness: define when the manufacturing order will be ready to process.

  • When all components are available;

  • When components for 1st operation are available.

• Flexible Consumption: allows flexible consumption of materials.

  • Allowed: allows materials consumption more or less than the configured BoM;

  • Allowed with warning: displays a warning to users when the materials consumption is different from the configured BoM but still allows the operations;

  • Blocked: displays a warning when the materials consumption is different from the configured BoM. However, only the administrator of the Manufacturing app can confirm this consumption at the end of the manufacturing order.

• Operation: type of operation used for this BoM.

After entering all of the above information, click Save to complete the BoM creation process.

Note

When you manufacture a product, the components can be a regular product or a finished product of another manufacturing process (also known as a semi-finished product).

See also

• Application of BoMs in Viindoo Sales

• How to manage BoMs for product variants