Integrated BOM management

As the manufacturing landscape evolves with technologies like cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, large-scale manufacturing enterprises are facing the demand for transitioning towards intelligent manufacturing and extensive mass customization. An excellent enterprise BOM management system is pivotal in supporting this transformation process.

Business Challenges

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Issues with BOM construction methods and structure
BOM construction heavily relies on design, resulting in late creation; EBOM is design-oriented with a complex hierarchical structure, leading to high BOM data redundancy and severe issues with change propagation; Lack of BOM support in the early stages of product development.
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Issues with BOM organization
BOM organization is lacks configurability and organizational units are too small, resulting in high BOM redundancy and inadequate support for managing product BOMs at scale.
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Fragmentation among different BOM forms
Fragmentation among different BOM forms result in many manual conversion steps; BOM maintenance and transfer efficiency is low, resulting in poor BOM consistency and high error rates.

Solution Overview

Gant Software’s BOM solution is a complete set of business solution rooted in industry best practices:
Problems and cause analysis
Assist enterprises in analyzing to BOM-related issues across different business domains, and analyze the causes of these problems.
BOM architecture plan
Assist enterprises in developing a BOM architecture tailored to their specific characteristics and the requirements of various business domains based on the industry timeline and enterprises’ issues with BOM problems. Define the organizational units, structural levels, and primary BOM formats.
Key BOM format processes across different business domains
Help enterprises to establish operational processes for BOM across various domains such as product planning, product development, production logistics, and after-sales service.
Establishing parts management specifications
Assist enterprises in establishing specifications for parts coding, naming and descriptions; help enterprises develop process norms for new part generation and lifecycle status management.

Solution Values

一体化集成的BOM架构设计
支持跨业务链协同,提升产品开发效率和各阶段数据交付质量
统一BOM架构
实现各BOM形态之间的数据继承,确保全业务链BOM数据的一致性
高效且精益的超级BOM组织方式
既减少BOM和数据量,又提升数据组织效率,满足配置多样化的产品BOM需求
前瞻性的BOM架构设计,支持各领域业务未来扩展
支持正向开发:早期物料清单支持、支持自由配置模式、支持产品智能:软件 BOM 解决方案、模块化支持
Supporting cross-business chain collaboration to enhance product development efficiency and data delivery quality at all stages.
Integrated BOM architecture design
Enabling data inheritance among various BOM formats to ensure consistency of BOM data across the entire business chain.
Unified BOM architecture
Reducing both BOM and data volume while improving data organization efficiency to meet the demands of diverse product BOM configurations.
Efficient and lean super BOM organizational approach
Support for forward development: Early-stage BOM support
Support for free configuration modes
Support for product intelligence: software BOM solutions.
Support for modularization.
Forward-looking BOM architecture design to support future expansion in various business domains

常见问题解答

什么是一体化BOM?
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所谓一体化BOM,是指通过底层数据架构的设计,使得不同形态的BOM共享BOM核心层级。重要的BOM数据都通过核心层级承载,以确保不同形态BOM之间的数据贯通。
什么是超级BOM?
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超级BOM是相对单一产品BOM而言的,是一种BOM数据的组织方式。单一产品BOM是针对具体的单个产品搭建BOM;超级BOM则是将多个相关联的产品(相同平台或系列)BOM组织在一起,并通过配置条件区分不同零部件在不同产品上的用法。
超级BOM有何优势?
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1. 超级BOM是符合平台系列化开发要求的数据组织模式。如果企业产品是基于平台、系列化进行开发,那么产品数据按照单一产品模式进行组织便是与这一业务特征相违背的
2. 超级BOM模式是使得模块化能够落地的具象化体现
3. 超级BOM模式能大大减少企业BOM的数量
4. 超级BOM模式能避免针对同一零件发生变更需要同步多处的问题
BOM为什么要扁平化?
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BOM层级扁平化是制造业普遍的实践。扁平化其根本目的是让BOM面向所有业务领域服务,而不是面向某个具体业务领域。BOM扁平化可以使BOM数据贯通、变更数据流转效率得以提升,也可以使配置化超级BOM数据冗余度极大降低,同时不会产生变更“冒泡”问题。
早期BOM只是一个框架吗?
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早期BOM的价值在于推动成本、先期采购、项目管理等业务领域尽早介入到产品开发过程。要使这些业务领域能够实质性介入,则BOM需要体现制造加工深度,也就是要到供货级别零部件层级。若仅提供系统、子系统框架,则无法使得这些业务领域能够开展实质性工作。
早期BOM和EBOM关系是怎样的?
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早期BOM和 EBOM管理内容、服务对象基本相同,差别只是在产品不同阶段,BOM的成熟度不同。早期BOM在产品开发早期阶段,不宜进行正式设计变更管控;进入工程受控阶段之后,BOM转入工程状态,所有BOM的变更都通过正式的设计变更进行。因此,我们建议早期BOM、EBOM组织形式相同,是一个BOM的两个阶段。这有利于各个应用部门保持应用的连贯性。
MBOM管理的要点有哪些?
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MBOM基于EBOM构建,并且面向不同的制造基地构建,以充分体现不同制造基地的工艺、物流的差异性。
MBOM管理的内容包括工艺路线、工位等主要工艺信息,辅料、原材料,合件及其它相关信息。
SBOM管理的要点有哪些?
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SBOM基于EBOM构建。SBOM管理的内容包括总成打散备件、自制备件、维修包以及其它备件(如底漆件、电泳件等)。

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