DE-C Import Bills of Material

Purpose of Program

Use this program to import Bills of Material from another system or from an ASCII file developed outside of the system.  While designed to be used at system startup, this program can be used on an ongoing basis if new Bills of Material are periodically received from customers or developed by Engineering in a CAD system.

General Program Operation

See Importing Master Files for general import instructions.  The BOM import requires the Parent Part Number, Component Part Number and Component Type and validates against the inventory master.  Non-Zero quantity per is also required.  Other fields are optional.  The BOM import can be set to skip or replace existing parent part/component part sets or it can allow duplicate components during the import to the temporary files.  Regardless of this setting during the initial import, DE-M, Transfer files to DBA will always append to the existing BOM master file so if you import a BOM for a parent part that already has a BOM you will end up with duplicated components.