Order bills of materials in mechanical and plant engineering

The order parts lists are an important control element in mechanical and plant engineering. In this way, the growing parts list helps to meet the requirements of constantly changing requirements and adjustments in projects in this branch of industry.

The daily challenge of mechanical and plant engineering

Machine and plant builders face major challenges in managing your projects. On the one hand, they have to organize long-term projects worth several million euros. On the other hand, you only have the customer requirements at the start of the project. The experiences from completed projects are perhaps the most helpful. It is therefore necessary to find a way how project manager can also create meaningful plans without standardized templates and parts lists. The integration of all information from the company with the planning is necessary because of the required transparency. The complexity of this project increases every day for mechanical and plant engineering. The use of growing order bills of materials can help significantly here.

The growing BOM

At the heart of order management is dealing with a growing parts list. Design changes that occur frequently and at any time in the project are the reason for these dynamic part lists. You start with a rough structure of products. The growing BOM is a relatively rough initial product structure that represents a master BOM representing the machine or machine to be developed attachment outlines with the order BOM. At this early stage of the project, the main BOMs are usually a long way off.

Accelerate procurement with order BOMs

The frequently changing basis for planning makes, among other things, an even utilization of resources and the procurement and timely procurement of material a tightrope walk. Purchased parts have to be procured early enough to be at the assembly site on time. Delivered too early, these disrupt the process and burden them liquidity. For this purpose, the growing parts list offers the possibility to issue first parts separately from other parts in order to speed up the necessary procurement processes.

Documentation with order parts lists

In addition to the task in planning, the order parts list also makes an important contribution to documentation. At the end of the project, there is a complete picture of the actual scope of the product. The growing BOM serves as indisputable proof of what was actually produced, purchased and installed. Complete documentation is therefore also used for the service that is so important in mechanical and plant engineering after-sales service.

Manage order parts lists with the right software

The correct handling and integration of growing BOMs in one ERP Software is also not an easy task for most software systems. ERP systems that were actually created to map series production have a hard time with this challenge. Consistency from the concurrent calculation to the documentation is often not in the genes of the software basis. This has already tempted some machine and plant builders to regard it as sacrosanct that you are dealing with a software zoo of special applications and MS Excel and a lot of manual effort is required to transfer data. However, it is worth making the effort to carry out detailed research. Because there are ERP systems that focus precisely on the "specialities" and pursue a highly integrative approach.

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