Engineering Bills of Material

As stated previously, manufacturing engineers typically create engineering bills of material (EBOMs) as part of the design process. As existing products are modified and new products are introduced, you need the ability to isolate BOM changes from the production environment. With PeopleSoft Engineering, you can manage and develop EBOMs without impacting the MBOMs. When EBOMs are approved, you can copy or transfer them to production for use in manufacturing. You can also apply mass changes to EBOMs (or MBOMs) using the mass maintenance functionality.

Here is how EBOMs differ from MBOMs:

• 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 pending items as components or define component placeholders on EBOMs when you don't yet know the actual item number.

• You can add EBOMs for assemblies and components that were added in PeopleSoft Inventory in a pending state.