Understanding PeopleSoft Engineering Bills of Material

Bills of material (BOMs) are structural designs that form the basis of all your item and product structures. To complete important tasks, such as material planning, allocating materials to production, or cost roll-ups, you need accurate and reliable BOMs. Also, as you modify existing products and introduce new products, you need the ability to isolate BOM changes from your production environment. With PeopleSoft Engineering, you can manage and develop EBOMs without affecting your manufacturing BOMs (MBOMs).

In the engineering environment, you can design product structures before you determine and assign all the item attributes. PeopleSoft Engineering enables you to use pending items (preapproved) defined within PeopleSoft Inventory, so that you can complete item initialization and approval independent of EBOM maintenance.

EBOMs differ from MBOMs in that:

• EBOMs are isolated from manufacturing and aren't visible within PeopleSoft Supply Planning or PeopleSoft Manufacturing.

• EBOMs have relaxed edit checks.

  For example, you can use component placeholders on EBOMs when you don't know the actual item number.

• You can add EBOMs for assemblies (and components) that are added in PeopleSoft Inventory, in a pending state.

If you have enabled PeopleSoft Workflow, when a change is made to MBOM or an EBOM, the system uses the BOM Change workflow to send a notification to the manufacturing engineer (or other role) that a BOM has been changed.

See also the product documentation for PeopleSoft Engineering, “Delivered Workflows for PeopleSoft Engineering”.