Overview of Model and Option Class Bills of Material
Oracle Manufacturing enables you to define integrated multilevel bills that contain planning bills, model and option class bills, as well as standard product and subassembly bills. For example:
Planning Bills of Material
In the example below, the Training Computer (at level 1) is a planning item that represents a family of products whose demand you want to forecast by family. The Training Computer planning bill contains three components (at level 2) that are each ATO models. Each component specifies a planning factor that represents the percentage of Training Computer orders that are for that model. All components in the bill for a planning item must have a planning percentage. Planning percentage totals can exceed 100% to over plan.
|
| 1
| Training Computer
| Planning
|
|
| 1
|
| . 2
| . Laptop Computer
| ATO Model
| No
| 60%
| 1
|
| . 2
| . Desktop Computer
| ATO Model
| No
| 20%
| 1
|
| . 2
| . Server Computer
| ATO Model
| No
| 20%
| 1
|
Optional components of model and option class bills can also have planning factors. Notice that in the example in Table 1-9, the Laptop Computer has a planning percent of 60% and the Operating System option class has a planning percent of 90%. The two options under the option class (DOS and UNIX) have 80% and 20% respectively. If there is a forecast for 100 units of the Training Computer, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP computes the forecasts for DOS and UNIX by exploding the forecast for 100 units considering each planning percent:
See Also
Overview of Bills of Material
Two-Level Master Scheduling
