Oracle Bill of Materials

(BOM)
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Introduction

Overview of Bill of Material

Oracle Manufacturing and Oracle Order Management use bills of
material to store lists of items that are associated with a parent
item and information about how each item is related to its parent.

Oracle Manufacturing supports standard, model, option class,

and planning bills of material.
Can create either an engineering or manufacturing bill, copy an
existing bill, or reference a common bill.
When created a bill, it exists only in the current organization.
To use a bill in another organization, either copy it or
reference it as a common

Bill of Material
BOM Item

Sub Assembly1

SubComponent1

Phantom Sub
Assembly

Component1

Component2

SubComponent

SubComponent1

SubComponent

Product integration
Oracle Bills of Material integrates with the following
applications
Oracle Inventory
Oracle Engineering
Oracle Work in Process
Oracle Purchasing
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply
Chain Planning
Oracle Order Entry
Oracle Cost Management

Bill of Material Types

Standard
Model
Option Class
Planning
Engineering
Phantom

Bill of Material Types (Contd.)

Standard : A standard bill of material is the most common type of bill and lists the
mandatory components, the required quantity of each component, and information to
control work in process, material planning, and other Oracle Manufacturing functions.
Model : A model bill of material defines the list of options and option classes you can
choose in Oracle Order Management to order a configuration.
Planning : A planning bill of material is a bill of material structure that includes a
percentage distribution for its components. The percentages associated with the
components on a planning bill of material do not need to add to 100%.
A product family is a grouping of products whose similarity in resource usage, design,
and manufacturing process facilitates planning at an aggregate level.
Phantom Bill : A phantom assembly is a non stocked assembly that lets you group
together material needed to produce a subassembly. When you create a bill of material
for a parent item, you can specify whether a component is a phantom. One bill of
material can represent a phantom subassembly for one parent item, and a stocked
subassembly for another parent

Navigation Bill of materials

Bill of materials

Bills

Bills

Main page

Choose buttons to perform related tasks:

Substitutes :- Assign substitute components
Designators :- Create reference designators
Bill Details :- Reference common bills
Revision
:- Define item revisions
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Components
Bills of Material restricts the types of items you can assign as
components based on the type of bill you are defining.
Valid Parent/Component Relationships
Parent BOM Item Type

Component BOM Item Type

Standard Item

Standard Item

Model Item

Standard Item, Model Item,

Option Class Item

Option Class Item

Standard Item, Model Item,

Option Class Item

Planning Item

Standard Item, Model Item,

Option Class, Planning Item

Revisions
Can define any number of revisions for the item
Revisions are sorted according to ASCII rules.
Therefore, cannot use revision 10 after revision 9
because, according to ASCII sorting, 10 precedes 9.

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Substitute Component

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Reference Designators

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Alternate Bills

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Copying Bill Information

You can save time defining new, similar bills by copying
their information rather than creating them manually.
You can copy a bill from your current organization or from
another organization that shares your same item master
organization.
You can then modify your new bill as necessary.
You can copy any revision of a primary or alternate bill.
You can only copy bills between items having the same BOM
Item Type attribute. For example, if the new bill is a model
bill, you can only copy existing bills that are model bills.

When you copy the bill from another organization, the

components and Substitute components on the bill you are
copying must exist in the target organization.
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Copying Bill Information (Contd.)

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Copying Bill Information (Contd.)

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Copying Bill Information (Contd.)

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Copying Bill Information (Contd.)

The components,
substitutes, designators
etc are copied for this
bill.

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Common Bills of Material

If two or more organizations manufacture the same item
using the same bill of material, you can define the bill in one
organization and reference it from the other organizations.
You cannot reference another bill or routing as a common if
that bill or routing also references a common. In other
words, you cannot create a chain of common references.
You can only reference another bill or routing as a common
if it has the same alternate name assigned to it.
If the current bill you are creating is a manufacturing bill, the
common bill must also be a manufacturing bill.
Sharing bills across multiple organizations minimizes the
maintenance of your bills of material.

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Common Bills of Material (Contd.)

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Common Bills of Material

Single Organization: Enter the organization and item names where the
common bill needs to be created.
Organization Hierarchy: Enter the required name of the organization
hierarchy. In this case, the processing is done for all organizations below
the current organization in the chosen organization hierarchy.
All Organizations: Then processing is done for all organizations that
have the same item master organization as the current organization.

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Common Bills of Material (Contd.)

When clicked on
OK a request is
submitted. The
status of common
BOM creation can
be seen from view
log of concurrent
request.

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