Oracle Bills of Material Command Center
This chapter provides information about Oracle Bills of Material Command Center dashboards.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Bills of Material Command Center
Bills of Material Command Center Overview
The Bills of Material Command Center enables users to efficiently manage product configuration and change order implementations. You can use key metrics, drillable graphs, tag clouds, and network diagrams that are available in the dashboards to explore product configurations, manage products, and perform impact assessments on change orders. Based on your role, you can use the Bills of Material Command Center to:
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Track manufacturing and engineering items graphically with all revisions and effectivity dates.
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Visualize current and future bills before approving and implementing manufacturing changes.
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Find and review alternate bills of material for assemblies.
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Analyze change order reasons, revised items, and component change details.
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Analyze items that undergo frequent changes to improve product lifecycle strategies.
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Monitor component usage and manage bills of material to reduce manufacturing costs.
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Drill down to analyze pending change orders grouped by stages.
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Track change orders reasons to improve products and process flows.
Note: The Oracle Bills of Material Command Center currently supports date effective bills. Unit effective bills are not supported.
Before you load data from Oracle E-Business Suite into the Bills of Material Command Center, ensure that your EBS data is accurate and current.
The following Manufacturing Command Center dashboards enable search functions using Enterprise Command Center integration:
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Bills of Material dashboard - Use this dashboard to view detailed information on bills and also explore the intended bills for assemblies. This dashboard is comprised of the Bills dashboard and the Indented Bills dashboard.
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Change Orders dashboard - Use this dashboard to view and analyze the complete lifecycle of an engineering change order (ECO). You can view complete details of ECOs along with their statuses, new item revisions, and change details.
Searching Enterprise Command Center Dashboards
Use the dashboard sidebars to refine (filter) the data on each dashboard. You can select a value or record from the Available Refinements component, or use Search to find a keyword, a value, or a specific record. The type-ahead feature suggests matches for your entry that correspond to the available refinements. When you submit a search, the search term is added to the Selected Refinements list, and the dashboard data is refined to include only records that match the search. You can add multiple refinements and remove any of them at any time. Use Saved Search to create and save your search. You can edit, delete, or refer to this saved search.
Use an asterisk (*) or percent sign (%) to perform a partial keyword or record search that matches any string of zero or more characters. You can also use a question mark (?) to perform a partial search that matches any single character.
Additional Information: For more information about searching for and refining data in enterprise command centers, see Search in Highlights of an Enterprise Command Center, Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide.
Bills of Material Dashboard
The Bills of Materials dashboard in the Bills of Material Command Center is comprised of the following dashboards:
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Bills dashboard - Use this dashboard to quickly search for bills of material across manufacturing bills or engineering bills and view bills with pending changes.
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Indented Bills dashboard - Use this dashboard to view and analyze the indented (multilevel and exploded) manufacturing or engineering bills of material of a manufacturing or engineering item using a network diagram.
As a product manager, manufacturing engineer, or production manager you can use the Bills of Material dashboards to efficiently manage product configurations across a product lifecycle. Use these dashboards to:
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Track primary and alternate bills, including common bills for manufacturing, across organizations.
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Identify and track bills with pending change orders.
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Explore and visualize indented bills for assemblies.
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Manage bills of material revision implementation and their component effectivity dates.
As an engineering supervisor, you can use the Bills of Material dashboards to effectively manage bills of material and their component usage. Use these dashboards to:
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Track bill types and components for manufacture with quantities across organizations.
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Identify noneditable common bills, editable common bills, alternates, and bills with pending change orders.
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Manage bills revisions with effectivity dates.
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Explore and visualize the intended bills of material for an assembly using network diagrams.
Bills Dashboard
The Bills dashboard provides bill of materials information including details of the assembly, organization, alternates, and revisions. Use this dashboard to quickly search for manufacturing bills or engineering bills and view bills with pending changes. Also ensure that you use the Bills dashboard to navigate to the Indented Bills dashboard.
You can search using an assembly name or description. You can also view bills information based on the available refinements such as assembly, organization code, alternate, common bills and BOM item types. See Bills of Material Command Center Overview for more information.
From the Manufacturing and Distribution Manager responsibility, navigate to the Bills dashboard:
(N) Bills of Material > Bills > Bills > Bills of Material > Bills (tab)
Bills Dashboard
The following table describes the Bills dashboard components:
| Component | Description |
| Bills (summary bar) | The Bills summary bar displays the following key metrics:
Click a metric to refine the information on the dashboard. |
| BOM (Count Distinct) by BOM Item Type (chart) | This drill-down chart provides information on bills based on the following BOM item types:
You can refine the displayed data by clicking a data point on the chart and the dimension and metric value for a data point. Click the Options icon to select BOM Item Type, Common Bills, or Organization Code from the Dimension menu. Select Bills (Count Distinct) from the Group Dimensions menu. |
| Alternate Bills (chart) | This bar chart provides information on alternate bills that provide alternate lists of component items to produce assemblies. You can refine the displayed data by clicking a data point on the chart and the dimension and metric value for a data point. Click the Options icon to select Implemented from the Dimension menu and Alternate from the Group Dimensions menu. |
| Bill Revisions (grid) | Use the Bill Revisions grid to view information about bills based on assembly name, organization code, revision, unit of measure, and whether the bills are primary bills or alternate bills. You can also view the effective from date for various revisions of an assembly. Note that the alternate does not appear for primary bills in the bills revision. Click the Record Details icon for a bill revision to view bill details such as assembly, assembly type, organization, alternate, description, revision, effective from and effective to dates, UOM, item type, common bill, common organization, whether it is a editable common bill, base model, base model description, and bills of material descriptive flexfield information if any. Note: The effective dates of the consecutive revisions shown, vary with one second only. Additionally, the Effective To date does not appear for the last revision of a bill. You can click a linked assembly name to view item attribute details in the Item Overview page. It is recommended that you use the Bills dashboard to navigate to the Indented Bills dashboard to view the network diagram for assemblies:
Click the links in the table columns to refine the information available in the dashboard. The following actions are available from the Options icon:
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Indented Bills Dashboard
The Indented Bills dashboard enables you to view, track and trace the manufacturing or engineering bill of material for manufacturing or engineering items in a network diagram. You can use the diagram to graphically view the assembly and monitor component changes and their effectivity dates. The diagram also displays the components for the bill of material of an assembly that you select in the Bills Summary grid. Ensure that you use the Bills dashboard to navigate to the Indented Bills dashboard.
Using the available refinements, you can view indented bill information based on assembly name, alternate, effective from date, and effective to date. See Bills of Material Command Center Overview for more information.
From the Manufacturing and Distribution Manager responsibility, navigate to the Bills dashboard and ensure that you use the Bills dashboard to navigate to the Indented Bills dashboard.
Indented Bills Dashboard
The following table describes the Indented Bills dashboard components:
| Component | Description |
| Indented Bills (diagram) | Use this diagram to view the indented (multilevel and exploded) manufacturing or engineering bill of material of a manufacturing or engineering item. Each node displays the assembly name, assembly description, revision, and the effective from date. Note: The node for the searched assembly shows the revision start effective from date in the Indented Bills diagram. You must not modify or remove the Revision Start Date and Revision End Date filters. These filters are set to render the diagram correctly by showing the details of the selected revision. Note that in the selected filters, the Effective From and Effective To date entities both have the From and To date range components. For example, for a bill revision that is effective between 03-March-2022 and 07-March-2022, the following dates appear:
Note that the bill revision date appears in the:
The From date component in the Effective From date and the To date component in the Effective To date are given values to render the network diagram. Note: To render the Indented Bills network diagram, the following dates are substituted while loading the indented bills data set:
You can modify the Effective From date and Effective To date filters to view the bill for a specific date. To modify these date filters, ensure that you enter the same date in the following date components:
Modifying Effective From and Effective To Date Filters: The following example demonstrates changing the date filters in the Indented Bills dashboard to view a bill dated 05-March-2022 . If you select the Effective Components button to navigate to the Indented Bills dashboard, modify the dates that appear in the selected filters using the following steps:
If you select the Effective and Future Components button to navigate to the Indented Bills dashboard, modify the dates that appear in the selected filters using the following steps:
Right-click a node to select the following options available for the node:
Right-click a node and then select from the following actions:
The nodes display the following icons as visual indicators for the component status of assemblies:
The following icons are available for the Indented Bills diagram:
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Change Orders Dashboard
The Change Orders dashboard enables you to view and analyze the complete lifecycle of an engineering change order.
Note: Currently, the Change Orders dashboard only shows information about changes to bills through change orders.
As a product manager, manufacturing engineer, or production manager you can use the Change Orders dashboard to efficiently manage product configuration. Use this dashboard to:
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Monitor and track high priority change orders and ensure their on-time implementation.
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Review change reason, revised items, and component changes.
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Approve or reject product configuration for manufacturing implementation.
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Analyze products that frequently undergo change to determine product obsolescence strategies.
As an engineering supervisor you can use the Change Orders dashboard to ensure that product details are up-to-date and that product development is on track. Use this dashboard to:
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Analyze change orders statuses across change reasons.
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Monitor change orders and the revised item status for products with the priority codes.
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Update the status for change orders.
You can search using a change order and description. You can also view change orders information based on the available refinements for the change order, revised items, and revised components data sets. See Bills of Material Command Center Overview for more information.
From the Manufacturing and Distribution Manager responsibility, navigate to the Change Orders dashboard using one of the following navigation paths:
(N) Engineering > ECOs > Change Orders > Change Orders (tab)
(N) Bills of Material > Bills > Bills > Change Orders (tab)
Change Orders Dashboard
The following table describes the Change Orders dashboard components:
| Component | Description |
| Create ECO (button) | To create an engineering change order (ECO), click Create ECO to navigate to the Engineering Change Orders window. |
| Change Order Status (tab) | This tab displays the following key metrics:
Click on a metric to refine the dashboard data. Note: The metrics for recently implemented and recently canceled change orders display information for the past 14 days by default. You can change and configure this value using the ECC developer responsibility. |
| Approval Status (tab) | This tab displays the following key metrics:
Click a metric to refine information on the dashboard. Note: The metrics for recently approved and recently rejected change orders display information for the past 14 days by default. You can change and configure this value using the ECC developer responsibility. |
| Change Orders by Top 10 Reasons (tag cloud) | This tag cloud displays the top 10 reasons based on reason descriptions for engineering change orders. |
| Change Order (Count Distinct) by Priority (chart) | Use this drill-down chart to view change orders based on priority codes such as standard, urgent, and none (if there is no assigned priority). You can also view change order information in this chart based on ECO status and approval status. You can refine the displayed data by clicking a data point on the chart and the dimension and metric value for a data point. Click the Options icon to select Priority Code, ECO Status, and Approval Status from the Dimension menu. Select Bills (Count Distinct) from the Group Dimensions menu. |
| Top 10 Items with the Most Changes (chart) | Use this chart to view the top ten assemblies which were changed the most number of times based on revised items, and status. You can refine the displayed data by clicking a data point on the chart and the dimension and metric value for a data point. Click the Options icon to select Status from the Dimension menu and Revised Item from the Group Dimensions menu. |
| Results Tables (tab layout) | The Change Orders dashboard tables provide information in the following tabs:
Click the Record Details icon on the Change Orders, Revised Items, and Revised Components tabs to view details for change order, revised item, or revised component. You can view the information in the change order, revised items, and revised components tables in the default Table View or the Timeline View. To view key events for change order, revised items, and revised components in the Timeline View, click the Timeline View icon in the following tabs:
Click the links in the table columns to refine the information available in the dashboard. The following actions are available from the Options icon on the Change Orders dashboard tables:
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