Tools

If a tool is needed to create the parent item and is located on the shop floor and reused as needed, you can indicate that it is a necessary component item which is required for the parent item. Enter reusable tools as text lines or nonstock items in the bill of material. You enter expendable tools (that is, tools used one time) on the bill of material like any other component item. The manufacturing process commits and consumes expendable tools in the same way as other components. Paint roller pads are an example of an expendable tool.