BOM and Production Routing Attributes
Bill of Material is only available in the Network Design Advanced Module. You can read more about how to use BOM and Production Routing in Bill of Material Groups.
Product Created
- Sheets on which it appears
- Possible inputs
Any number greater than 0
- How it affects the model
Product Created attribute defines how many final products can be made from the given amount of raw materials.
Product Needed
- Sheets on which it appears
- Possible inputs
Any number greater than 0
- How it affects the model
Product Needed attribute defines how many raw materials are needed for the given amount of final product.
Capacity Consumed
- Sheets on which it appears
- Possible inputs
Any number greater than 0 (0 means unlimited)
- How it affects the model
The amount of capacity consumed in one iteration of the given Bill of Material at the given Production, Location, and Period.
BOM Fixed Cost
- Sheets on which it appears
- Possible inputs
Any number greater than 0 (0 means no cost)
- How it affects the model
The cost of the Bill of Material being in use at the Production for the given Period and Location. BOM Fixed Cost is independent of the inbound or outbound volume. BOM Fixed Cost remains the same no matter how much the volume is.
BOM Variable Cost
- Sheets on which it appears
- Possible inputs
Any number greater than 0 (0 means no cost)
- How it affects the model
The cost of using one iteration of the given bill of material at the given production, location, and period. Compared to the Variable Cost in the Production sheet it differs in that the Variable Cost is the cost of one unit of volume (capacity consumed). So the proper interpretation is that, for example, producing a given BOM takes Capacity Consumed amount of hours (specified in the sheet Production Routing) and this creates a set of products (a given amount from each specified in the sheet Bill of Material). The Variable Cost in the sheet Production is the hourly wage the workers operating the machine have to be paid to carry out the task, while the BOM Variable Cost is the cost of using the machine for the given task once. BOM Variable Cost is inherently independent of the hours the task takes.