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BOM: the product's recipe

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The BOM (bill of materials) lists every material needed to make a product, with its quantity, unit, supplier and price. Both costing and material orders come from here.

In this part

  • You read a BOM line: item, supplier, color, unit, consumption per unit, wastage and unit price.
  • You see how fabric, lining, interlining, trims and packaging are separated in the BOM.
  • You explain why a change in the BOM affects costing and the order at the same time.
  • You notice that composition information is born in the BOM and carried all the way to the passport.
BOM: the product's recipe: Pimland PLM screen
Bill of materials (BOM): every material with its quantity and supplier in one list. When the price of a button changes, the affected cost is tracked from here.

Terms in this part

BOM (bill of materials)
The list of all materials needed to make a product, with quantity, unit, supplier and price.
Composition
Information showing which fibers a fabric or product is made of, and in what proportions.
MOQ (minimum order quantity)
The lowest order quantity a supplier accepts for an item, often per color.
Lab dip
A small color trial the dyehouse prepares in the lab to hit the target color.
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