What is a bill of materials in Odoo
A bill of materials (BoM) is a hierarchical list of all the components needed to manufacture or assemble a product. These components can be a storable product, a consumable or even a service.
A bill of materials in Odoo can be created from the product form itself or from the path: Manufacturing → Products → Bills of Materials → Create.
Bill of Materials types in Odoo:
- Manufacture this product: This is the type of bill of materials needed to carry out manufacturing orders. The components or raw materials are consumed and stock is created for the product with the bill of materials.
- Kit: These are products that are not manufactured but assembled at warehouse level. On the sales quotation/order they are a single product reference, but in the warehouse/delivery order the kit is broken down and all the product references in the bill of materials are shown. An example would be a Dinnerware Kit (sales reference) which on the delivery order would be broken down into dessert plates + soup plates…
- Subcontracting: Used when the manufacturing process is carried out by a subcontracted vendor. Its usefulness lies in letting us automate the process of sending raw materials to the subcontractor by specifying in the bill of materials the products we need to send.
Bill of Materials form in Odoo:
- Product: Item to be manufactured, assembled or subcontracted.
- Quantity: Amount and unit of measure to which this bill of materials applies.
- Reference: Name and/or code of the bill of materials.
- BoM Type: Manufacture this product, Kit or Subcontracting.
- Subcontractors: For a subcontracting bill of materials, we must specify the vendor(s) we contract the manufacturing to.
Bill of Materials form tabs in Odoo:
- Components: This tab lists the products and quantities that make up this bill of materials. They can be storable products, consumables or even services.
- Consumed in Operation: Lets us specify in which specific manufacturing operation this component will be consumed.
- Operations: Gives us the option to specify the manufacturing routing for this product. It is a sequence of operations, each carried out at its corresponding work center. The bill of materials can be created with or without operations.
- Miscellaneous:
- Manufacturing Readiness: We can specify whether the manufacturing process must have all components available to start or only those needed to perform the first operation.
- Flexible Consumption: Gives us the option to configure how material consumption will behave in the manufacturing order. In a strict way (Blocked), meaning consumption is always as set in the bill of materials. Or in a flexible way (Allowed or Allowed with warning), so that the quantities consumed in the manufacturing order can be edited and differ from the theoretical ones in the bill of materials.
Keep learning about Odoo
- Bills of Materials for manufacturing in Odoo
- Kit-type Bills of Materials in Odoo
- Subcontracting with Bills of Materials in Odoo
- Bills of Materials and operations in Odoo
- Odoo Manufacturing
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