Bills of Material
A read-only list in Manufacturing → Engineering. The records are written by the work that produces them; this screen is where you read them, narrow them and take them somewhere else.
Where to find it
- Module: Manufacturing
- Group: Design
- Section: Engineering
- Screen: Bills of Material
Address in the console: /mfg/boms
Read-only list · 6 columns · 5 actions
This list is read-only: its records are written by the work that produces them. A correction, where one is possible at all, is made where the record was created.
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Product | Text | item_name |
| Ver | Code | version |
| Effective | Date | effective_from |
| Yield % | Number | yield_pct |
| Status | Status | status |
What can be corrected
The fields offered when an existing record is edited. Whether the button appears at all is decided per record — see What may be changed.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | Text | ||
| Alternate | Text | ||
| Effective from | Date | ||
| Effective to | Date | ||
| Yield % | Number |
What you can do here
Activate
Activate this bill of material
Asks for confirmation: Planning and New production order may choose this bill from now on.
Inactivate
Make this bill of material inactive
Asks for confirmation: It stops being chosen for new orders and plans. Orders already made from it keep it, and it can be activated again.
Archive
Archive this bill of material
Asks for confirmation: It is put away for good: still readable for the orders made from it, never chosen again.
Renumber lines
Number the components again, in order, with no gaps
Asks for confirmation: The lines keep their order and are numbered 1, 2, 3 … (or 10, 20, 30 … where the bill counts in tens). Orders already raised are not changed.
Delete
Delete this draft bill of material
Asks for confirmation: Only a draft that no order, plan, configuration or item names can be deleted. A bill that was used is made inactive and archived instead.
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.