Hi All,
We installed BC cloud back in 2021 and at the time we went with a configurator product which allows us to setup the option choices, then load up an excel sheet by copying the option choices into excel, put the upload data into the sheet and then paste it into a bulk configurator. Which worked excellently until our product mix and process changed and we are now working from multi level BOMS's.
So we are now looking to see if there is a more suitable out of the box option, or, in the last few years has a more suitable system popped up.
To put it in perspective, we set parameters such as the material price, the number of bends, which machine the parts are going to be manufactured from and then add in the component details as a list. We could have 1 part ran 100 times on one job or 1000 one off bespoke parts. Each come with a routing and a BOM (built) each are created on the fly and within the almost 4 years we have ran the system, we have over 70,000 uniquely created parts, most of them used once and never used again. With this in mind, item by item manual creation wont work.
We now have a multi level bom structure needed. We have the customer place an order for a unit, say a P1, P1 is made up of 3 components A,B,C each produced through the production system, each we need to know is made. We need to produce the part, load onto a pallet, ship for subcon, return and subassemble. and put back onto a pallet and ship to the client. When we ship the P1, it needs to consume the A.B.C reference parts along with consumables in the system.
We also intend to plan and replan the orders, often a client will call to delay or accelerate the order (order can be for 100 parts) so we need to change the sequencing on the whole order not item by item replanning.
Does anyone have any ideas?
