Bills of Material Attribute Group

Following are the Bills of Material attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items. See: Defining Items and Updating Organization Level Items.

BOM Allowed

ORACLE BILLS OF MATERIAL AND ORACLE ORDER MANAGEMENT ONLY

Warning: Oracle Bill of Materials and Dual Unit of Measure (UOM): When the Tracking UOM for an item is Primary & Secondary (a dual unit of measure), do not select the BOM Allowed check box on the Bills of Material tab. Otherwise, an error occurs when you try to create a BOM with this item in Oracle Bill of Materials.

Allows you to define a bill of material for an item, or to assign the item as a component on a bill.

This attribute is optionally set by the Item Status code. See: Status Attributes and Item Status Control.

BOM Item Type

ORACLE BILLS OF MATERIAL AND ORACLE ORDER MANAGEMENT ONLY

This attribute is controlled at the Master level only.

Select a type to control bill functionality. You must enter a value here if BOM Allowed is turned on.

Model The item's bill of material lists option classes and options available when you place an order for the model item.
Option Class This item's bill of material contains a list of related options. Option classes group like options together. Oracle Order Management does not allow ordering of classes outside a model.
Planning This item's bill of material contains a list of items and planning percentages. A planning item can represent a product family or demand channel. Its bill of material facilitates master scheduling and/or material planning. The total component planning percentages on a planning bill can exceed 100%. Oracle Order Management does not allow ordering of Planning bills.
Product Family This item can be used as a product family for planning at an aggregate level. See: Product Families.
Standard Any item that can have a bill or be a component on a bill, except planning, model, or option class items. Standard items include purchased items, subassemblies, or finished products.

Base Model

ORACLE BILLS OF MATERIAL ONLY

This attribute is controlled at the Master level only.

Displays the model from which an ATO configuration was created. In Oracle Order Management, you can place an order for an ATO model, choosing from the list of options. Oracle Bills of Material creates a new configuration item, bill, and routing that captures the chosen options. The configuration item lists the ordered model item as its base model.

Autocreated Configuration

Select this checkbox if the item is autocreated. If the base model is null, you cannot select this checkbox.

Engineering Item

Indicates that the item was created using Oracle Engineering. This attribute is not updatable.

Effectivity Control

This attribute is used by Oracle Bills of Material when calculating lead times from the Routings form. See Calculating Lead Times and Creating a Routing.

Date A concurrent program uses the date as the parameter.
Model/Unit Number A concurrent program uses the Unit Number as the parameter.

Configurator Model Type

This attributes determines the behavior of configurable models in configurator. The available choices are:

Create Configured Item BOM

This item attribute is available only for ATO items. It allows you to create configured item bills of materials based on the following options:

Based on Sourcing Based on Item Sourcing
Items Based on Model Item is based on the model.
BOM And Routing Based on Sourcing BOM and routing are based on Sourcing
Based on Model The BOM is based on the Model.

Match Configuration

CTO provides the capability to match existing configurations. You can match the configurations of the models depending on the complexities of the BOM. The available choices are as follows:

Standard Matches the configuration based on the standard BOM
Container Matches the configuration based on the container
Null Matches the configuration on the profile options BOM: Match to existing configurations and BOM Use custom match function.