Parts lists

Parts lists show which components make up a target article. These individual components can be material and goods as product types. Only the target product appears for your customer on all external documents such as quotations, orders, delivery bills and invoices.

This target product can be continued dynamically in the event that components change or even expand over time; for this purpose, parts lists are always recorded in the corresponding order so that it is always possible to trace the version in which the parts list was drawn here.

Only in the picking process step, i.e. with the final reach into the warehouse, is the BOM exploded and displayed in the last valid version. This means that it is always possible to see which components have been included in the target product.

The costs of the elements in the bill of materials are totaled from the inventory prices of the individual elements and can thus be referenced to the offer, order and product. In this way, the achievable margin and costs can be tracked directly against the offer price/order price and thus very early in the process, well before the cost center postings are considered.

Tip: the creation or continuous updating of parts lists can be very time-consuming. A feasible method is to manage some of the BOM components via a Kanban system instead of posting them via the BOM (example: standard screws). This saves costs and still ensures that all components are available.

Tip: A product: Small parts flat rate 1 can be helpful for displaying the cost side in the bill of materials.

Products that consist of a parts list cannot have a supplier and no reorder and maximum stocks.

Products with parts lists in orders are always reserved in quantity across all components, the stock is only debited when the order is available, which then runs into partial picking/picking/delivery/invoice.

We have created a csv import to be able to quickly and easily import parts list elements into parts lists or to fill them from a pre-system. This is based on the UTF-8 format in the following structure:

Via the command Upload and replace command completely rewrites the parts list.

The command Upload and add command is used to extend the parts list so that hybrid parts lists can also be created.

All products that appear as elements in a parts list are used as

used in products

referenced with name and number. This helps to make changes consistent and to always keep track of which product is used in which.