WEBINAR: BOM Management – How to escape from Excel

Oleg Shilovitsky
Oleg Shilovitsky
6 February, 2020 | 1 min for reading
WEBINAR: BOM Management – How to escape from Excel

How to escape from Excel? Data migration is hard  Moving your BOM from Excel to the cloud shouldn’t be…

In this webinar, we discuss best practices and useful tricks on how to escape the Excel-universe of BOM management and manage product data in a structured way.  It covers examples of import data from various Excel formats and organization of BOM, catalogs, properties with examples of OpenBOM.

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Conclusion.

The escape from Excel is different from every person and organization. Nothing holds us harder than our own habits and Excel is one of them. We love and hate Excel. To break the Excel universe starts with your mind and understanding of benefits to manage and share data differently. 

Check out how OpenBOM can help you to do so. Register for OpenBOM user subscription later today 

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.

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