A Vendor List contains information about companies you’re using as a source of standard parts as well as contractors and suppliers. We call them Vendors. The functionality is very simple.- to allow to create sets of information about vendors. As everything in OpenBOM, vendor lists are fully flexible. You can add/remove any property. This is…
To manage parent-child relationships is a fundamental function in the Bill of Materials. OpenBOM does it on demand by connecting Part Numbers. It is a very useful function that can apply in many situations. You can think about complex structure, order or anything like this. While Multi-level BOM is a structure, you can think of…
For the last several months since we introduced OpenBOM Design to Purchase solution, we’ve been asked by customers to provide integration with accounting software. And, Quickbooks traditionally took the first place in the list of demanded integrations. To remind you of this workflow: Today, I’m happy to share a sneak preview of OpenBOM, which close…
OpenBOM has a flexible export function including a selection of properties, filters, sort, ordering rows and customization of a company logo. I want to talk today about the last one, which is pretty important. You can create your company BOMs, export it to PDF format to send to the contractor, suppliers and manufacturing shop floor…
Formulas in OpenBOM are equations you create in a cell which performs simple arithmetic operations using the designated cells. The basic principle to understand is that a formula equation is in the usage of properties as parameters for the formula. The formula is always defined in the context of a specific line (Item). So if…
The user-defined view is a powerful mechanism that allows you to provide a custom way to present data. You can think about “raw data” in the way it placed in a BOM and then applying view (eg. Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier, etc.) A View can be thought of as a lense which the BOM is viewed…
Nothing stands still in this world, change is the only constant. This old pearl of wisdom also applies to engineering and manufacturing. Once something is designed chances are you will keep changing it. Even a new product will sometimes be created as a copy of an existing one with some changes applied. Today, I want…
In the world of business software, replacing spreadsheets or Excel is the most popular topic. Guess what? Almost every successful business software is doing something that people were doing and/or still doing with Excel. It is just so easy and natural to start and do Excel. Recently, I was reading my 10-year-old Beyond PLM posts…
On the surface, Bill of Materials (BOM) is simple. This is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Bill of Materials as a list of parts. In fact, BOMs are not simple. Here are just a few ideas about what can make BOM management a very complex task leading to frustration,…
Hello OpenBOM users! I’m very excited about our new website and a new blog. For quite a long period of time, I’ve been blogging on OpenBOM Medium blog entirely. We will continue blogging there, but I’m happy to announce a new OpenBOM blog. This blog will allow all members of OpenBOM team to share thoughts,…