Bill of Materials/Routes

Ensure product quality and improve efficiency by using the tools available in Answer Bill of Materials/Routes

Quickly and accurately model products and their corresponding Bill of Materials and optionally their Routings.

This module also includes Product Information Management tools to provide the accurate information you need for effectibve production, planning, costing and execution.

There are two options available for Product Information Management:
1. Bill of Materials and any associated Routings
2. Relational Process Model

Here we will be focussing on the first option, Bill of Materials (BOM) and Routings.
Take a look at the Relational Process Model page for more information.

BOM/Routes prompt Manufacturing to use the correct materials and perform the required processes.
Used effectively, BOM/Routes ensure that Planning and Scheduling ask for the right quantity of resources at the right time and that Finance have the accurate costing details they demand.

Who can use BOM/Routes?

Answer BOM/Routes provides for a wide range of discrete, semi process and process industries.
Define your product BOM or formula and add the Routing/Process definition. Alternatively use the Relational Process Model, also available in Answer Enterprise, to create a fully integrated process/manufacturing model in one step.

Routings are used to define the manufacturing stages, type, operations, departments, work centres and operation sequences, as well as recording the times involved in the manufacture of a product.

Define your own facilities and resources

Work centres can be defined and grouped into departments to track the costs of manufacturing and also for departmental capacity analysis.
A work centre is a specific production facility or resource consisting of one or more people or machines.
Each work centre can have its own capacity, standard rate, current rate, queue time and move time. A machine code can be added to the routing with the work centre code.

A manufacturing stage is a point in the production process where a number of operations are performed, either in sequence or in parallel.

An operation is a step in the manufacture of a product. All the operations required to manufacture a part of a product are commonly referred to as a routing.

To find out more about Product Information Management, using customer defined variants in a BOM and more, download the Bill of Materials PDF.