Indented Bills of Material

The Indented Bills of Material report enables you to see the framework of the bill of material from top to bottom. Unlike many of the costing reports, the Indented Bills of Material report is designed to show structure and quantity but does not contain costing information.

The Indented Bill of Material report displays material information in an indented format so that each subassembly's components are indented beneath it. This format gives you a better look at BOM structure from the top down, including subassembly information. Subassemblies are indented for ease of readability thus the name: Indented Bills of Material. The report can be printed with or without operations. Although the sample bill of material below does not contain operations, it is generally suggested you print the report to include existing operations.

The report drills down into a BOM until a raw material or stocked subassembly is found. Stocked subassemblies are assemblies whose Stocking Level check box is selected on the General tab of the Bills of Material screen on the Setup and Maintenance menu. This check box indicates that it is a stocked item and that production orders which include this subassembly create direct demand for this item, but not for its components. An override option exists on the Indented Bills of Material screen to ignore this flag and drill down on all BOMs to their lowest component level.

 

1. Use the Data Filter to select the range of filtering options or leave the filter blank to include all available data.
2. Select the information to include in the report from the View section.
3. Select the Ignore Stocked Assembly Flag check box, if applicable, to ignore those assemblies set up as a stocked item in order to drill down on all BOMs to their lowest component level in the report. The Ignore Stocked Assembly Flag changes the functionality of the report in that all stocked subassemblies are automatically treated like non-stocked subassemblies for the purposes of this report.
4. Select the Include Secondary Routings check box, if applicable, to include secondary routings on the report as well as your primary routings.
5. Select the Page Break after Assembly check box, if applicable, to include page breaks after each assembly in the report.
6. Select the Banded Rows check box, if applicable, to highlight alternating lines on the report to make the report easier to read.
   Note: Use the System Manager Print Preferences function to define the default setting for this check box. You can then override this default when you print the report.
7. Select a routing step order of Ascending or Descending from the Routing Step Order field.
8. Click a command button to

Select	To
Print	Print the Indented Bills of Material report using the selected criteria.
Output	Output the list as a PDF.
Send	Save the list as a PDF and attach it to an email using your default mail program.
Preview	Preview the Indented Bills of Material report using the selected criteria.
Reset	Reset all fields and lists to their default selections.