Bill of Materials and Work Orders

The ORDERS Plus Bill of Materials (BOM) and Work Order Processing System is commonly used for small to mid-sized companies involved in manufacturing and component assemblies. This module is specifically designed to automate inventory control and work order requirements without the complexities of maintaining an MRP system. Bill of Materials can manage an unlimited number of Raw Materials, Part and Labor Components used to build a Finished Good. The Bill of Materials can also support an unlimited amount of sub-assemblies, if required.

Bill of Materials and Work Order Processing can provide the needed functionality for two styles of manufacturing:

• Just-in-Time - Standard or Custom Production Driven by Orders
• Inventory - Production to Maintain Stock for Commonly Sold Finished Goods

When using Bill of Materials, you can maintain components that make up a standard assembly and create, issue and build work orders to produce a finished good. Our Bill of Materials and Work Order Processing systems include the Bill of Materials configurator, Work Order Management and Dynamic History systems.

Bill of Materials system is based upon a departmentalized assembly providing the option to have each sub-assembly built by a different group of people. Therefore, a unique work order for each assembly and sub-assembly is based upon your requirements.

Process of Building a Finished Good:

• Configure a Bill of Material to generate a Work Order
• Adjust Components on the Work Order - Add or Delete if needed
• When Complete, Issue and Print the Work Order
• Inventory is Automatically Committed
• Give Work Order to Person/Department responsible for Building Finished Good
• When Finished Good is produced, complete Work Order which removes Components from Inventory, Adds to Finished Good's quantity and updates the Finished Good's Cost Automatically

Since you are able to customize a work order through ORDERS Plus, you can treat a standard Bill of Material as a template and make needed changes. You can attach a custom work order directly to a sales order. The unique cost derived from the work order is passed through ORDERS Plus to BusinessWorks Accounting. These special features give your custom production department additional flexibility to do their job more efficiently.

For the Production Manager's benefit, we've created a Dynamic Work Order History system, which allows the user to view all or specific work orders and drill down to details within a specific work order. Other special features include Bill of Material, work order duplication and several critical reports.

The ORDERS Plus Bill of Materials and Work Order Processing system simplifies custom manufacturing processes. See your finished good's cost update automatically when you build a work order and know exactly what components need to be purchased.