Are you ready for BOM?
Is your company ready for BOM Management? Do you think it is a funny question? Not really... Many companies, especially in the early stages of its development, prone to the illusion of BOM that needs to be done once to list part in the product and place it on the drawing or to keep it…
From Screws to Chocolate – A New Set of OpenBOM Demo Data Is Coming
I’m happy to give you a heads up about the new OpenBOM demo data set is coming very soon. With the introduction of fully automated instant 14-days trial, we realized the importance to provide an environment to discover all available OpenBOM features. The best way to do so is to experience OpenBOM features using the…
Building a Resilient Supply Chain Using Product Data Networks
The last six months of COVID19 exposed one of the biggest challenges of many supply chains - to sustain large-scale disruptions and to provide flexible and fast adaptation to new product development and manufacturing conditions. While many manufacturing companies suffered closures because of lack of supplies, others suffered from their lack of new sources to…
Data Sharing Using OpenBOM Role-Based Filters
To have the right data shared with the right people at the right time. How many things did you hear this mantra? We all need to have data, but to deliver the data to the right people is hard. People are located in different places, working for different companies, and using different systems. Traditional data…
Best Practices: Organizing Product Information Using OpenBOM
OpenBOM helps you to organize information about the product. As much as it sounds simple and obvious, the organization of the data is one of the most important and complex processes to accomplish in the organization. Even the smallest organization with just a few people can create an enormous amount of complexity by not organizing…
WEBINAR: Using OpenBOM Templates to Improve Efficiency of Repeatable Processes
Everyone needs data, but nobody wants to manage this data. When it comes to data-driven processes, the ability to populate the data needed for product design, production planning, and purchasing is next to none. Manufacturing companies are looking at how to establish a repeatable process for setting up product structure, making cost assessments, purchasing planning,…
OpenBOM Design to Production Process [Advanced]
The article gives you the fundamentals of the OpenBOM purchasing process. Check it out first. In this article, you will learn the details and best practices of managing Order BOM and planning to purchase. You will also learn how to manage Items data using OpenBOM catalogs and create vendor lists including Approved Vendor List (AVL). …
OpenBOM SaaS – 5 points of difference
Designing products is fun. But once you move from the design stage to production, you need to plan production and purchase. And it is very hard to do, even it sounds very simple - count parts, select vendors, organize part lists and purchases. Design data is complex and located in CAD systems that are not…