Manufacturing Foundations BOM (2026)

Overview

The video explains the bill of materials (BOM) as the list of components needed to produce an item. It describes the BOM as a recipe that drives material planning, consumption, and costing. It starts at the item card and the replenishment method, then goes through the production BOM structure and its components.

It then covers organizing BOMs and using the where-used action, managing BOM versions with starting and ending dates, and creating production orders that fill in components and routings from the right BOM version. It closes on how an accurate BOM gives better cost visibility and control over product changes.

Key points

• Choose production order replenishment when you need multi-step operations, machine centers, or capacity planning. Assembly is for simple, labor-only processes. Both use an associated BOM for the components.
• Formulas for standardized units of measure can be used in BOM component quantities.
• The where-used action shows, for each item on the bill of materials, where that item is used.
• Define several versions of a production BOM with different starting dates. Production picks the correct BOM based on the production date. Versions of one production BOM can be compared to see how components differ.
• Ending dates on item versions, together with phantom BOMs, let you replace pre-produced items with production BOMs from a set date without major changes to the main product. The example switches on 1 June.
• Refreshing a production order fills in component lines and routings. The BOM version is chosen automatically from the due date and can be overridden manually.
• The components action on a production order shows which items are required for each product line.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• table “Item Card” at 0:27
• other “Production BOM” at 1:12
• other “Where Used action” at 1:56
• other “Production BOM version comparison” at 3:06
• table 5405 “Production Order” at 3:32
• other “Components action” at 4:16

Not found in BC28-30: table “Item Card”.

Quotes

• 0:13 “The bill of materials, also called BOM, is the list that defines the components required to produce an item.”
• 0:58 “Choose production order when you need multi-step operations, machine centers, or capacity planning.”
• 1:25 “BOM acts as the recipe and drives material planning, consumption, and costing.”
• 2:19 “The item version of reservoir assembly has an ending date of 1st of June, when the production BOM version starts being used.”
• 2:51 “For more complex modifications, you can define new versions and their starting date, so that production will pick the correct production BOM.”
• 3:45 “Once those fields are defined, we can refresh the production order to automatically populate the order lines with components and routings.”
• 4:30 “An accurate bill of material definition improves cost visibility and gives you better control over costs and product changes as your business evolves.”