HiFinance
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SECTION 5 - BILL-OF-MATERIALS MENU
The Bill-of-Materials sub-system is used to link
Inventory items so that the system knows which are assemblies, which are
components and how the components relate to the assemblies. This allows you to
setup recipes for each assembly. Each
assembly can also be a component for a higher assembly.
Once an assembly is defined, you can use the
reporting functions to give you information on pricing and availability. The
Data-entry function allows you to create assemblies from the components. This
automatically updates the Inventory and inserts the stock of assemblies at the
current cost-of-sales.
The BILL-OF-MATERIALS
MENU is accessed as item 5 or <F5> from the MAIN
MENU. On selecting this menu the following menu will be displayed:
To return to the MAIN MENU, press <ESC>.
Fields
available on the BILL-OF_MATERIALS MASTER file.
Name Comments
ASSEMBLY CODE This is the Inventory code of the Assembly. It must
relate to a valid Inventory item. There is only one of these per Assembly.
COMPONENTS This is the Inventory code of the Component. It must
relate to a valid Inventory item. You can have as many Components as you like
in an Assembly. The only limitation is that an Assembly cannot contain itself
as a component and a component can only occur once in any Assembly.
UNITS For each component you have to tell the system how
many units are used in the Assembly. Obviously, this must be a positive number
but does not have to be a whole number.
