Module guide
Manufacturing: build panels and products at their real cost
Define what you build once, run work orders from release to completion, and let materials, labour and overhead land in the product cost, including panels built for a project.
2 stages7 stepsIncludes video
Step 1 of 7: Approve the bill of materials
Stage 1 of 2Define what you build
Approve the bill of materials
Who approved it
The approver and the approval date are recorded on the BOM. From then on it is locked.
Read the help articleA planning cost
The total uses the components' current cost. The real cost of a batch is known when its work order is completed.
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Open Manufacturing › Engineering › Bills of Materials and open the product's BOM. It lists every Component one batch consumes, with its quantity, unit, Scrap % and Cost.
Approval locks the recipe: an approved BOM cannot be edited, and only one BOM per product is active at a time. To change it, you Clone it into a new version and approve that. Work orders already created keep their own copy of the materials.
For a contractor building control panels, this means every panel of the same type is built and costed from one agreed list.