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

• Purchase unit of measure with conversion

• 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

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 - departmental format

• Bill of material: Single level format, Indented format, Access to notes

• Component where-used: Single level, End item

Reports

• Item list - departmental formats

• Sales catalog - quick reference for pricing, description

• Bill of material: Single level format, Indented format

• Component where-used: Single level, End item