Bill of Materials
Build your BOMs: the backbone of your manufacturing processes
Fishbowl Advanced inventory management software gives you flexibility and control over one of the most pivotal parts of your manufacturing processes—your bill of materials (BOM). Take the manual steps and guesswork out of your BOM creation with the Fishbowl Advanced Bill of Materials module.
Cost & Labor Tracking
BOMs account for costs and labor from start to finish
Whether your teams are responsible for building, maintaining, repairing, or disassembling products, there are labor hours and costs associated with each step.
The Fishbowl Advanced Bill of Materials module allows you to associate time and labor costs, as well as other intangible costs, with each step. The module allows you to connect manufacturing costs to your accounting platform, like QuickBooks. In your bill of materials set-up process, identify specific steps that incur costs or create revenue. Fishbowl Advanced sends that data to QuickBooks automatically, keeping your financials up to date and accurate.
Types of BOMs
Create BOMs to fit all your manufacturing processes
Fishbowl Advanced speeds up your manufacturing processes and improves your production planning with increased consistency, predictability, and accuracy. Our Bill of Materials module gives you flexibility to create BOMs that fit your specific manufacturing processes. Create and customize BOM templates with images and notes for specific picking and manufacturing steps.
There are four main types of manufacturing jobs that require a BOM.
Manufacture
Manufacturing jobs can range from a few simple steps to lengthy and complex production stages. Manufacturing BOMs help you take a variety of parts, or production stages, and put them in the linear order required to create a finished product. With Fishbowl inventory management software you gain visibility on assemblies and subassemblies.
Maintenance
Many items, like machinery, require regular maintenance to avoid breaking down. A maintenance BOM helps to manage regular maintenance schedules and keep your business running on schedule. A maintenance BOM clearly defines the parts to monitor and replace parts, as well as the steps required to keep your machinery and products in working order.
Disassemble
Disassembling a finished product involves undoing the work completed in the manufacturing process, resulting in a bunch of individual parts. A disassemble BOM identifies the specific steps required to take apart a finished product, and can include details, like which parts to keep or discard, and where to store or dispose of each part
Repair
Repairs often involve a single part, or simple system within a larger item, like heavy machinery. Repair BOMs can drill down to each individual part, or system, meaning a complex item could have many associated repair BOMs.
Automated Manufacturing
BOMs converted to Manufacture Orders with the click of a button
Fishbowl Advanced lets you customize bill of materials templates for all of your manufacturing steps. Quickly add items to a bill of materials, adjust quantities, upload images, and initiate a build with little-to-no manual steps. Set trigger points in your manufacturing process that automatically initiate work orders, based on your BOM. Features you can customize on your BOM templates include:
- Batch Add: This allows you to add more than one part and/or product simultaneously.
- Finished Goods: These are the end results of a bill of materials and work order.
- Notes: If parts or products require extra instructions, you can insert notes to explain them.
- Raw Goods: These parts and materials will be used up or transformed into something else in the manufacturing process.
- Repairs: These are intangible items that are not consumed in the manufacturing process, but they still incur costs.
Case Study
Increased growth potential in complex manufacturing management
- Up and running with Fishbowl in two weeks
- Streamlined invoice and order processes
- Standardized complex manufacturing processes
- Created greater visibility and better decision-making with customizable reporting
- Integration with QuickBooks brought operational and financial processes in sync and eliminated double data entry
Fishbowl streamlines your BOMs. Our experts will show you how.
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