Bills of Material Overview

Oracle Bills of Material is used to store lists of items that are associated with a parent item and how each item is related to its parent. Oracle BOM supports the following BOM types:

• Standard: Which is the most common type of bill and lists the mandatory components, the required quantity of each component, and information to control work in process, material planning, and other Oracle Manufacturing functions

• Model: A model bill of material defines the list of options and option classes you can choose in Oracle Order Management to order a configuration

• Option Class: An option class is an item that groups optional components on a bill. An option class is an item that becomes a level in your model bill of material. Option classes can also have mandatory components that apply for all of its options.

• Planning: A planning bill of material is a bill of material structure that includes a percentage distribution for its components. The percentages associated with the components on a planning bill of material do not need to add to 100%.

• Engineering: You can define an engineering bill of material as an alternate for a manufacturing bill. The typical use for an alternate engineering bill is to prototype variations from the primary bill that produce the same assembly.

• Phantom: A phantom assembly is a non-stocked assembly that lets you group together material needed to produce a subassembly. When you create a bill of material for a parent item, you can specify whether a component is a phantom.

Objectives of Oracle Bills of Material

• Define different types of bills of material to accommodate various business models and scenarios. 
• Create and implement engineering change orders.
• Creating bills of material, routings and engineering change orders. 
• Transfer engineering information to manufacturing. 

Key Functionality of Oracle Bills of Material

• Create Engineering Change Orders 
• Define and maintain manufacturing and engineering items 
• Transfer and copy items, bills, and routings 
• Understand item functionality 
• Understand and use item templates 
• Set up bills of material and routings 
• Set up and use Workday Calendars 
• Set up Bills of Material and routing information 
• Create standard bills of material 
• Create alternate bills of material 
• Create planning, model and option class bills of material 
• Use configure to order feature 
• Revise bills of material and items 
• Compare bills of material 
• Calculate lead times