When working products that can be personalized and customized, creation and handling of BOM (Bill of Materials) is often very time consuming. Furthermore, if the BOM is not correct, detailed and updated it will inevitably result in numerous errors in both material consumption and cost calculation.
In this blog post, we will take a look at how a Dynamics NAV-based TRIMIT solution make it easy to work with configurable products and BOMs.
Brief Introduction To A TRIMIT Solution
At TRIMIT, we make industry-specific software solutions based on the ERP Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Our area of expertise is fashion, furniture, and product configuration.
Below you can see an illustration showing our software solution for the furniture industry:
TRIMIT Furniture - Based on Dynamics NAV
BOMs and Formula
A TRIMIT solution reduces the number of BOMs significantly, due to the use of master BOMs and generic item BOMs. It is made very simple to create and maintain BOMs in the software solution.
Below you can see an example of variants in a sofa configuration scenario:
The screenshot below shows a couple of variants up close:
The next screenshot shows the BOM for a sofa. It contains both items (raw materials) and operations:
We have a formula calculator, which is a tool that controls the BOM creation by using logical expressions for calculating, routing, material, and time consumption, etc. This tool enables you to set up all the necessary conditions in order to control what can and cannot be configured.
Price Calculation
TRIMIT combines calculation of actual prices and standard cost prices. The prices are continuous all the way from supplier order through BOM to the sales lines, giving all involved employees a complete overview over the prices, costs and contribution margins of all products.
TRIMIT makes it possible to calculate cost and sales prices in the moment of configuration. This improves customer service significantly, as customers get answers to e.g. price requests instantly.
Automation
Furthermore, TRIMIT automatically recalculates and deletes orders, which means that cancellation of orders removes all related orders, prices etc. while adjustments of orders lead to an automatic recalculation of everything involved in the order. This way reducing time spent on errors and bottlenecks.
Benefits Of Product Configuration
- Your sales people and customers can only configure what you allow them to, which minimizes errors remarkably.
- By using the configuration, all relevant specifications for both production and purchase are generated automatically.
- The bottlenecks that often occur when handling special orders are reduced.
- You get a very quick turnaround on orders.
More Information
For more information about TRIMIT's software solutions, please see the page Solutions.
If you would like to get a live demo of a TRIMIT solution, please fill out the form on the Request a Demo and we will get in touch with you to schedule a demo.