Procedure for Copying from an Existing BOM
A new assembly may have a BOM applied to it by copying the bill of material from an existing assembly. To simplify changing a Bill of Material, while maintaining the original version of the assembly, users can copy the parts list into a new assembly and make changes as needed.
After finding the new (and empty) assembly.
Depress the Copy button and enter the user’s password will prompt the user for the existing bill of materials from which to copy the components.
The user may find the existing assembly from which to copy either by part number or by part class.
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MANEX will populate the new assembly with all of the part information from the existing assembly, except for parts belonging to a customer. Those items will have to be added manually. The filled in BOM is displayed below:
Depress the Edit button to add the customer name and any other needed changes, in any of the screens.
The user can then either Save the new assembly with all of the components, or Cancel the operation.
Approved AVL's will be retained when copying BOM's except for one exception: Buy part has 3 AVL's and customer A is associated with buy part and also has 3 AVL's, Create BOM for Customer A add buy part all 3 AVL's will be listed, approved only one of the AVL's on BOM A. Create new product changing Rev. to B. Copy BOM A to B. (BOM B has no customer assigned). All AVL's will copy over and all will be checked.
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