Use the BOM workspaces to investigate and find information about your BOM records.
You can amend workspaces to display data to suit your business processes or current task. You can use the filter options and column selector to choose the data that is displayed.
You can use the Workspace Designer to change the content or to create your own workspaces. You can add or remove content and change the available actions, the reports, the columns and how they are displayed, the default filters used for the toolbar filter and so on.
In the desktop application, workspaces can be opened from the menu or from the drop-down list.
In the web browser, workspaces are opened from the drop-down list.
To open from the drop-down list, click the arrow next to the workspace title to open another workspace .
The following workspaces are available in the BOM module.
Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
This provides lists of BOM records, allocations and build records. The Bill of Materials Record List is displayed by default. If you want to switch to the Bill of Materials Allocations List or Bill of Materials Build Record List, select the list from the drop-down list.
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Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
This provides a list of BOMs.
You can:
Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Bills of Material.
This provides an overview of your BOM records with associated components and operations.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Costing.
This provides information about your BOM costing sessions. The associated cost breakdown is shown in chart and list form.
You can:
A chart showing breakdown of costs for the selected session.
Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
This provides a list of BOM allocations.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Processing > Allocations.
This provides information about finished items and components for BOM record allocations .
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Processing > Allocations by item .
This provides information about your allocation by stock code, along with details of associated finished items and components.
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Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
This provides a list of BOM build records.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Processing > Build Records
This provides information about your BOM build records, along with details of finished items and components for each build record.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Processing > Build Records By Item
This provides information about your BOM build records by stock code, along with details of finished items and components for each build record.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Traceability> Traceable Items
This provides information about traceable items that have been consumed or produced by BOM build records. If you selected Component association required on the BOM Details tab, this shows parent or component details for a traceable item.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Traceability> Component Association
This provides information about traceable items which use component association (the Component association required option is selected on the BOM Details tab of the BOM record). It displays information about the build records and the parent and component details for the traceable item.
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Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Sales> Sales Order Built Items
This provides information about sales orders lines for items that are not yet built.
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These actions launch the BOM - Allocate, BOM - Record Built Items and BOM - Trial Kitting windows for the selected sales order with the relevant sales order line information.
Open: Bill of Materials > Enquiries > Sales> Sales Orders To Be Built
This provides information about sales orders containing items that are not yet built. It shows the sales order details and the associated built items.
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These actions launch the BOM - Allocate, BOM - Record Built Items and BOM - Trial Kitting windows for the selected sales order with the relevant sales order line information.
Reference
Manufacturing registers workspaces
Planning workspaces and enquiries