JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Data Management and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Configurator

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Data Management system enables you to organize and maintain information about each item that you manufacture. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Configurator system further defines the relationship between items and how they can be manufactured.

Although you do not need to create a bill of material for a configured item, you can create a bill of material for the manufactured components for the configured item. Use assembly inclusion rules to define component relationships for configured items. The system adds configured components to sales orders and work orders, based on these rules.

During setup, consider creating modular bills of material that group common parts for a specific feature or option. For example, a car might have an interior trim package with two choices: standard and deluxe. Each choice includes specific parts and might represent two different modular bills.

Although planning bills of material are not required for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Configurator system, you can use them to help manage demand for specific features and options.

You can define all possible routings for the configured item and define assembly inclusion rules to select which routing to attach to the work order. The routing assembly inclusion rule enables you to specify a complete routing or specific routing operations to attach to a configured item work order. You do not need to enter a routing for the configured item unless you also enter a routing inclusion rule.