1. BOM Management
  2. Implementation
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How a BOM Management rollout works

Start with a real assembly structure and rehearse the decisions before using live production work.

  1. Agree the operating boundary

    Production Planner and Quality Reviewer select the pilot assembly, instruction source and inspection routine. Agree the BOM revision instruction handoff and who owns stock maintenance.

  2. Resolve people and authority

    Link each person to their user account and agree the action authority of the production roles, Manager and Admin. Define engineering release, commercial approval and controlled start and completion actions with their deciding owners.

  3. Load reviewed references

    Prepare item records, customer and supplier records and production resources, then revisions and component lines. Resolve customer and supplier headers before their line records. Reconcile inventory balances with the designated source.

  4. Rehearse an operating cycle

    Validate components and a revision, submit an engineering request and obtain the engineering decision. Release eligible work, post an identified issue and submit production output before the reviewer considers batch release.

  5. Verify failures and repeats

    Try invalid dates, a released component parent, incomplete change references, an unapproved order, negative output and premature batch release. Retry successful guarded actions and inspect the original records for a second effect.

  6. Release the agreed configuration

    Check direct action permissions, the operating views and required connections. Review the remaining manual handoffs with their owners before using live demand and production records.

What the customer provides

Bring current item codes and units, assembly revisions, component quantities and the people who decide engineering changes. Supply real order commitments, resource availability, reconciled stock balances and the inspection evidence used to release output. Identify open work whose instructions must remain on an earlier revision.

Changing it afterwards

Use Proto to prepare changes for review before release. Review changes to revision instructions, stock connections and engineering evidence with the responsible people. Rehearse the changed handoff using an actual assembly case before relying on it. Keep the existing item and account identities and successful operational records intact while testing the new behavior.

Review access, the model and pricing when agreeing the rollout.

Set up BOM Management your way.

Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.

How to get started