Explanation of Bill Types in Bill of Materials for Sage 100

Description

Explanation of Bill Types in Bill of Materials

Resolution

Standard Bills:

• Must represent an actual inventory item
• A bill that lists all components required to produce a single parent item or finished good
• Represents actual finished products or assemblies
• Options can be added to Standard Bills

Engineering Bills:

• A hypothetical bill which is usually created while a product is in its design stage
• Does not have to represent an actual inventory item
• Cannot be used in Production Entry, Disassembly Entry, or Sales Order Entry
• Can be converted to a Standard Bill and the item must be a valid inventory item

Inactive Bills:

• Represents assemblies of finished products that have been restricted from the production process
• Normally classified as inactive when being defined, replaced by another bill, or when the parent item is no longer required
• Inactive bills are only used for reporting purposes
• Cannot be used during Production Entry or Sales Order Entry

Kit Bills:

• A single-level bill used to define a group of items that are normally sold as a single unit
• Can contain comment lines
• Kit bills cannot contain miscellaneous charges
• Must represent an actual inventory item defined as a Kit product type item
• Can be committed or relieved from a sales order or a sales order invoice as pre-assembled or assembled to order
• Items are committed and relieved when the item is included on a sales order or sales order invoice

Phantom Bills:

• Not a valid inventory item, but a list of components that are used on other bills.  Will relieve items from Inventory still
• Represent assemblies that are not stocked in inventory
• Reduces the need for data entry for items that are always used together but never stocked as an assembly
• Phantom bills cannot be included as components on Phantom or Kit Bills