Product/Item Configurator Features and Functions
Planning bill of materials (BOM) applies more to family BOMs (for example, what perecentage of PCs with 20 GB, 50 GB or 100 GB drives will we make?). This is important during sales and operations planning, and forecasting phases. A software tool that simplifies order entry by asking which options the customer needs, then applies predefined rules to correctly configure the end products. The configurator populates the attributes of the newly configured item, tests for conflicts, and generates the appropriate BOM, routing, and price based on rules and calculations.
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- Product variability
- Menu selections
- Selection constraints
- Conditions
- Option types
- Design change control
- Selection types
- Graphic display of selection trees
- Configurator error reports
- Configurator simulation
- Master model tree types
- Routing steps
- BOM linking
- BOM creation
- Routing creation
- Item master creation
- Pricing and target cost
- Order entry-driven and item master-driven
- Configuration history
- Multiple modeling
- Sub-configurations
- Rule and condition statements
- Reopens existing configuration to allow changes
- Automatically loads common prior data for real time selection
- Error reporting
- User-defined fields
- Selections for generating sequential part numbers based on part attributes
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Manufacturing Management Features and Functions
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