Works Order Processing (BOM)
If your company manufactures products from parts, or if your company disassembles products into parts (reverse BOM), then OrderWise Works Order Processing is the solution for you.
In both instances, tight control is required over the stock handling of these child products, and great emphasis must be placed on the overall cost of the finished product. As you may expect, child product substitution along with batch and serial number tracing are included as standard within OrderWise Works Order Processing.
Whilst delivering this functionality, OrderWise Works Order Processing is linked back to the core data in order to coordinate stock demand and control the raw material cost of a finished product. OrderWise Works Order Processing also controls any fixed or per-unit costs such as energy costs (fixed) or labour charges (per-unit).
OrderWise Works Order Processing is a set of easy-to-use, intuitive screens that allow each step of the manufacturing process to be controlled. These include setting up the initial Bill of Materials, creating Build Plans and performing the actual Build once the details have been obtained from the Build Plan. OrderWise Works Order Processing can also handle Self-Assembly BOM products, whereby the creation of the Build Plan and the Actual Build can be bypassed. Naturally, OrderWise Works Order Processing maintains its tight control over stock quantities throughout this process via intelligent allocation.
Throughout each step, OrderWise Works Order Processing strictly controls the estimated cost of a Build Plan; seeing it all the way through to the manufacturing stage, at which point these predicted values become actual costs. The cost comparison feature allows users to produce reports based on any difference between the original estimated cost and the final actual cost.
'OrderWise Manufacturing supports unlimited length of bill of materials that, in turn, support unlimited sub assemblies.'
Self Assembly Bill of Materials (Kitting)
Self-assembly bill of materials – or 'kitting' – allows users
to create a sales order for a single item, for example a bed,
which may be stocked as multiple components (e.g. mattress,
headboard etc.) At the point of despatch a picking note can be
printed showing all component items; OrderWise then deals
with the conversion of the child components into the product
ordered by the customer and provides a despatch note listing
only the final product. All necessary balancing of stock items is
performed 'behind the scenes'.
As with a typical manufacturing build, the number of
components and sub-assemblies assigned to a self-assembly
BOM build is unlimited and full product traceability is
supported.
Reverse Bill of Materials
The control of by-products – also known as Reverse BOM (Bill of Materials) – is another important feature of OrderWise Works Order Processing. On an average Bill of Materials build, the top level product is made from more than one child product or sub-assembly. Reverse BOM is the process of taking a single product and breaking it down into its individual parts, then taking these components into stock as separate – and saleable – products.
As an example, imagine a PC retail and maintenance shop buys used PCs in any state of repair. In this case, the top level product (or target of the process) may be a disassembled PC, and the child product would be the fully assembled used PC. The by-products would be the motherboard, RAM, CPU and any other components extracted via the disassembly process. After the reverse BOM process is complete, the shop may find that the extracted RAM does not work. At this stage, thanks to the intuitive design of OrderWise Works Order Processing, users are able to delete any record of by-products which are either faulty or were not extracted - in this instance, the PC’s RAM.
OrderWise gives users full control by offering the ability to cost these by-products by either ratio or buying cost. As you would expect, products added into stock via this method are fully traceable. OrderWise Reverse BOM turns the tedious and time-consuming task of by-product additions into a simple, streamlined and systematic operation.
