Technology

BOM Development

Wasting time manually recalculating material costs for every product variant? The Technologia module lets you comprehensively build and manage multi-level Bills of Materials (BOM) as the basis for material planning and costing. AI algorithms automatically generate cutting plans and optimise minimum stock levels for raw materials.

See the screens

BOM Development — module screens in Process App

Input: Product card, documentation
Flow: Product → adding BOM items → structure explosion and requirements
Output: Product Bill of Materials

Who works here

Process Engineer, Design Engineer

Benefits

What changes in the company after the rollout

The process engineer builds the product structure: what goes into it and in what quantity. The BOM is the basis for material requirements and cost.

Faster variant creation

Instantly duplicate existing material structures using the BOM copy function from another product.

Full cost control

Continuously track total material cost based on up-to-date prices of assigned raw materials.

Fewer data errors

Keep data clean with a central product catalogue structured by families and classes.

Better visibility of shortages

Quickly identify raw materials with stock below minimum to prevent production downtime.

Ordered life cycle

Easily manage BOM versions by assigning statuses from prototype through to archive.

System screens

How this process looks in Process App

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Main screen of the Technologia module showing a data summary with statistic tiles, record growth charts, status distribution, and lists of the largest data sets and most recently added BOM items.

Product list screen in the Technologia module showing a categorised product catalogue with their production and stock parameters.

Detail view of a selected product in a modal window, showing the active tab with basic master data, costing, and stock parameters.

Product detail view in a modal window with the BOM tab open, showing the product’s material structure tree with component costs and the assigned routing.

Modal window for editing the material structure (BOM) of a selected product, showing a form for changing the version status and a detailed list of components with their parameters.

Modal window for copying the material structure (BOM) from another product, displayed over the BOM tab in the details of the selected product.

Raw materials list screen in the Technologia module, showing a table of purchased materials with tiles summarising warehouse value, number of items, and stocks below minimum.

Modal window with details of a selected raw material, displayed over the raw materials list, showing basic data, inventory and costing parameters, and a movement history table.

List screen of material structures (BOMs) grouped by product families, showing tiles with cost summaries and a list of main components for each product.

Modal window showing a detailed component list of the material structure (BOM) of the selected product, displayed over the grouped BOM list.

Features

What exactly you get

Multi-level BOM tree

Build and edit material structures, defining quantities, units of measure, and component source warehouses.

Product and raw material catalogue

Browse categorised lists of finished goods and materials along with their stock and costing parameters.

Inventory movement history

Check dates, operation types, quantities and sources for every raw material index directly on its card.

BOM flattening

Generate a downloadable list of all components that make up the selected product.

Statistics dashboard

Analyse charts of record growth, task status distribution and summaries of the largest data sets.

Artificial intelligence

What AI does for you in this process

AI cutting plan

Artificial intelligence algorithms automatically generate an optimal cutting plan for materials directly from the BOM structure.

AI minimums

The system analyses data and automatically suggests optimal minimum stock levels for each raw material.

AI routings

Artificial intelligence mass-optimises and assigns technological steps for many products at once.

ABC suggestions

Algorithms categorise products and materials based on their importance and turnover in the company.

Module description

The process from start to finish

Manage the full product catalogue and build material structures in one place. Use the BOM tab to analyse the component tree, partial costs, and total material cost for each product version. Copy finished structures from other products to speed up work on new variants. Control your list of raw materials by checking stock levels, unit prices, and full movement history. Assign components to the right source warehouses and mark their purpose, for example for packaging or for assembly. Edit BOM versions by changing their status to prototype, active, or archived, depending on the product life cycle stage. Use the main dashboard of the Technologia module to monitor record growth, status distribution, and recently added items in real time.

See this process on your own data

We will walk you through the “BOM Development” module using your company as the example — the input, the flow and the end result in Process App.

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