Next week webinar: Techniques for Managing Purchased Assemblies

The Holidays Break is over. This year, we will continue our weekly educational webinars about BOM management. Today, I want to announce next week’s webinar, which is about the topic that near and dear my heart – purchasing and Bill of Materials. 

To create a good Bill of Materials for purchasing is almost an art. When engineers are creating the design of the product, the purchasing is an afterthought. Engineers like to design the most innovative products. They don’t think about many aspects that can make their product fail such as unreliable suppliers and components without alternative suppliers. 

The main challenge of the Bill of Materials for purchasing is to create a structure that can be effectively used for purchasing and at the same time to reflect the actually design information from multiple CAD systems and engineering planning. 

A usual process for an engineer is to dump CAD assembly into Excel and email it to procurement. They need to massage the Excel, add information they need, missed part numbers, suppliers, cost, calculate it all together and manage to put orders. 

This is the topic for next week’s webinar. 

Techniques for Managing Purchased Assemblies (like pumps, bearings, motors, etc) in Bills of Material

Join OpenBOM Director of User experience Steve Hess as we take a look at how data flows from your design to your BOM and onto others in your organization. In this week’s webinar we will focus on the “Purchased Assembly” workflow. Have a fully modeled pump or electric motor but buy it as a line item, we will cover that. Or perhaps you originally built some assemblies in house and are now outsourcing to a sub-contractor, we will cover that case and others as well. Please bring your questions.

REGISTER HERE

Conclusion.

An average product has about 70% of the parts and components that either purchased or outsourced. How to make the purchasing process more efficient? Join OpenBOM educational webinar next week to learn more.

Best, Oleg @ openbom dot com.

Let’s get to know each other better. If you live in the Greater Boston area, I invite you for a coffee together (coffee is on me). If not nearby, let’s have a virtual coffee session — I will figure out how to send you a real coffee.

Want to learn more about PLM? Check out my Beyond PLM blog and PLM Book website

Read OpenBOM customer reviews on G2 Crowd to learn what customers are saying about OpenBOM. 

Image by Mudassar Iqbal from Pixabay