BM-B  Print Bills of Material

Purpose of Program

This program will print a list of your bills of material.  The report includes the parent item number, description and type, component item numbers, descriptions, types, quantity pers, scrap percentages, sequences, routing numbers, and reference fields.

If you choose to print sub-assemblies, the bill of materials for each assembly or phantom assembly item will be included.  Up to ten levels can be printed.

If you want a listing with standard costs, go to BM-G  Print/Rollup Standard Costs, which produces a multi-level, costed bill of material.

General Program Operation

To select bills of material to print, enter a range of parent item numbers or select item numbers from a lookup window by pressing the F2 key (or clicking on the Lookup button).  You can indicate whether you want the second line of description printed or not for the parent, components, or both.  Enter P for Parent only, C for Components only, A for both.

You can further indicate whether you want specifications (from the parent or component's inventory master record), BOM remarks, or BOM notes to print.

You are asked if you want to print multiple levels.  If you indicate yes, the components will be included for every subassembly and phantom assembly down through up to 35 levels of the product structure.  Each component will follow its parent product and will be identified as to what level it resides in the product structure.  The number of levels to print can also be specified.

If you are using the Features & Options module, you can optionally print the features, but not the actual options.  To get a printout of options, go to FO-B  Print Features and Options.

You can specify whether approved substitute parts, approved vendors, or approved manufacturers are to print on the report.  Finally, you can indicate the number of decimals you prefer on the "quantity per", should you wish to shorten the standard eight decimal places (for printing purposes) and indicate the number of levels to print.