Costpoint Materials Management Series: Bills of Material


Overview

Course Details

This learning video covers an overview of Bills of Materials, Work Centers, and the various Bills of Material reports.

Duration: 24m

Topics Covered
  • Bills of Materials Controls
  • Work Centers
  • Reports and Inquiries
Content Writer

Ashley Olson
Costpoint SME and Sr Product Manager

Glossary

Apply Mass Component Changes to Bills of Material Use this screen to replace all instances of one component (or subassembly) with another throughout an entire manufacturing bill of material (MBOM) or engineering bill of material (EBOM).
Bills of Material (Also referred to as BOM) A list of components required to build a product. Often referred to as a Product Structure and can be thought of as an ingredient list.
Compute Costed Bills of Material Use this screen to print an indented or single-level costed bill of material (BOM) for a selected range of assembly part numbers.
Configure Bills of Material Settings Use the Configure Bills of Material Settings screen to set up the controls and defaults for Bills of Material (BOM).
Copy Bills of Material Use this screen to copy bills of material records.
Engineering Bills of Material Used for design work before manufacturing gets involved.
Manage Manufacturing Bills of Material Use this screen to set up and maintain the hierarchical relationship of parts in a production environment.
Manage Parts Use this screen to set up the inputs to Bills of Material .
Manage Work Centers Use the Manage Work Centers screen to define the work centers that make up your production processes.
Print Bills of Material Where-Used Report Use this screen to print a list of assemblies for a selected range of component part numbers.
Print Indented Bills of Material Report Use this screen to print an indented bills of material (BOM) report for a selected range of assembly part numbers.
Print Summarized Bills of Material Report Use this screen to print a summarized bills of material (BOM) report for a selected range of assembly part numbers.
Print Summarized Bills of Material Comparison Report Use this screen to print a comparison of summarized quantities for components between two assemblies' exploded manufacturing bills of material (MBOM) or engineering bills of material (EBOM), as selected.
View Bills of Materials Use this screen to view a bills of material (BOM) for a selected assembly part number.
View Where-Used Bills of Materials Use this screen to view an inverted bill of material (BOM) for a selected component part number.
Work Centers Work Centers can be a group of machines and/or employees responsible for building a product.

Resources

Click on the links below to view and download the files.

General Ledger Process Flow Diagram form of how data flows into the General Ledger.
Costpoint Placemat Diagram of the basic flow of data from its initial data inputs to reports, including some of its major database tables.