Sage 200 Bill of Materials
The Sage 200 Bill of Materials module follows your bill of
materials process from beginning to end. It breaks down the
assembly process into easy-to-access areas including materials,
labour, machines, operation's and reporting.
Here's how Sage 200 Bill of Materials can help your assembly
processes:
Manage multiple Bills of Materials easily
Multiple versions of a BOM can be stored and used, one of which
is 'live' at a given time.
- With powerful Version control, only one person can edit or
change a BOM at
any time, and other users are aware that a BOM is being
edited.
- Full change history is stored for each BOM. Old BOMs can be
marked as
'Dead', 'Obsolete' or 'On Hold'.
- Obsolete BOMs can be revived but not built from, and Dead BOMs
can be
permanently deleted if required.
Multiple views of BOM structures
- Four views of BOMs are available. The tree view allows
drill-down through
all levels and branches of the BOM. Top level view shows only the
first level of
components below the finished item. The bottom level view shows
only the end
points of each of the BOM branches.
- Consolidated view shows rolled-up totals of all components
used.
- All BOMs can be created using unlimited sub-levels.
- Each BOM can contain multiple lines representing a stock item,
subassembly,
cost item, document or comment.
- All BOMs can have relevant documents attached, such as drawings
and detailed
instructions.
Flexible Build Options
- The system can be configured to always build subassemblies, or
always use
from stock, or allow choice in each case.
- You can manage products with multiple units of measure
- Picking lists can be produced at the time of allocation or
separately.
- Multiple finished items can be included in stock calculations
and
allocations to ensure finished goods that have similar
constituents of another
assembly cannot use each other's raw materials.
- Sage 200 Bill of Materials also supports 'Phantom' BOMs so you
can create
intermediate items that are never held stock in stock but are
standalone
constituents of another finished good.
- An item can be globally replaced or deleted throughout all BOMs
with full
control over where changes or deletions are made, including
intelligent support
for partially built finished goods.
Customised BOMs and 'Specials'
- Users can replace individual items, add new items or amend
quantities of
existing items.
- A 'Partial Build' feature means that if for some reason you
don't need to
build all the items that raw materials have been allocated for,
you can enter
the quantity you have actually built.
- For expedited builds, the system can cope with the situation
where finished
goods are built without first allocating raw materials.
Precise Costing
- Detailed costs can be built in for each unit or build run.
- You can assign labour and machine time for each assembly
process to ensure
accurate costing.
- You can allocate a proportion of a fixed cost/operating
overhead to a run,
based on an average number of units per run.
- If a component changes, the rolled-up costs can be calculated
automatically
if desired.
- For components that do not use the standard costing method, the
system will
re-calculate the rolled-up cost of the finished goods upon
allocation.
Intuitive operatio
- The Bill of Materials module shares the same outstanding
usability as the
rest of the Sage 200 system with uncluttered screens and intuitive
navigation.
- As the same process and screens are used whether performing a
trial build,
allocating stock or actually building items, the learning curve is
less
steep.
- A trial build displays the quantity of raw materials required,
including any
shortfalls and alternative sources of shortfall items to allow you
to plan your
build sequences.
Flexible Nominal Ledger analysis
- Stock use can be summarised to a single line for each nominal
account when
posting to the Nominal Ledger, or split out to multiple lines by
component.
- Summarising nominal postings significantly reduces the volume
of Nominal
Ledger transactions, improving performance.
To find out more about Sage 200 and how it can help your
business, please call us on 0845 251 8080, or
email us at info@pythagoras.co.uk