Creating a Product Family (Oracle Bills of Material Help)


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Creating a Product Family

A product family is a grouping of products whose similarity in resource usage, design, and manufacturing process facilitates planning at an aggregate level. A product family cannot be a part of a Standard, Model, Option Class, or Planning Bill of Material. Consequently, a product family is a single level bill. Members of a product family can belong to one and only one product family. You will be able to plan based on the planning percentages and effectivity of the product family members.

Attention: You must make sure that the Product Family flex structure is configured to match the System Items structure. If the System Items structure is changed it should be reflected in the Product Family structure as well. See: System Item Structure

To create a product family item:

1. Navigate to the Master Item window.

Attention: If you are a Flow Manufacturing customer, select Product Family from the Flow Manufacturing window. The product family template is automatically applied.

Item Templates

Note: You are not required to use the product family template. If you choose not to use a template, make sure that you define the correct product family attributes. Specifically, the item must be an inventory item and the BOM Item Type must be Product Family. The item must also be BOM allowed.

Creating a Product Family

To create a product family item:

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