Understanding JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Data Management for Apparel Management

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Data Management system enables you to integrate all of the aspects of product data. This system provides basic data for other manufacturing systems. Bills of material (BOM), routings, and work center information are used throughout an organization.

The bill of material is the primary method for defining and communicating the structure of the product. A BOM identifies the manufacture of finished products (end items), subassemblies, and components. When you can create a bill of material, you define components, quantities, reference information, and additional information as necessary. The system uses a bill of material as a master list when generating the parts lists for work orders, cost roll-ups, lead-time roll-ups, and production scheduling.

After you have defined a style item's components using a bill of material, you must specify where each operation occurs and the sequence of operations that is necessary to manufacture the item. Work centers consist of people and machines in which routing operations occur. Routing instructions define the operations that are required to produce a style item and the lead time for a style item at each routing instruction step.

For an operation that is to be performed on a style item by an external supplier, you can define an outside routing operation. An external supplier may perform such outside operations as cutting, dyeing, or sewing. For an outside operation, a purchase order is required. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement Management system enables you to automatically generate purchase orders for outsourced operations on the routing instructions. You can generate the purchase order when you run the Work Order Processing for Style Items program (R31F410). You can also enter a purchase order interactively after you have attached the routing to the work order.

After you set up the style item root level 0 and child style items in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system, you can use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Data Management system to set up bills of material, create routings, and set up outsource operations for the manufacture of style items.