The Bill of Materials feature provides you with a means of managing raw material stock levels and ensuring they are optimized by effective material requirement planning and stock control.

PuzzleBill of materials feature includes:

  • Upload production orders from other systems
  • Copy existing bills to another bill.
  • Text lines and block text can be entered on the Bill of Materials.
  • Both quantity and formula bills can be entered.
  • Sales order stock lines which link to a Bill of Materials finished good, can optionally be added to production order, similarly, job estimates can be transferred to a production order.
  • When confirming production, any quantity variances can be entered to ensure accurate costing for each production order.
  • Enter substitute components.
  • Automatic confirmation for a range of selected orders
  • Ability to enter up to 20 levels to each Bill of Material.
  • Enter fixed or variable costs in each Bill of Materials.
  • Ability to recost Bill of Materials, and “what if” cost variation analysis.
  • Enter the labor component for each bill.
  • For those production orders with insufficient stock levels to fulfill production, purchase orders can optionally be created.
  • Allows for reversal of production orders.
  • Allow for “product kitting” in sales orders and debtor invoicing.

Bill of materials reports include:

  • Production orders.
  • Status by order.
  • Status by stock.
  • Status by the required date.
  • Completed orders list.
  • Variances by order.
  • Variances by stock.
  • Stock usage.
  • Where used list