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Slide notes: There are multiple access points in the IES Business system to the definition option for a Bill of Materials. In this instance, we do it from the Planned Maintenance Menu.

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Slide notes: When defining a brand new Bill of Materials, we can get a unique Key from the system, or we can invent our own.

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Slide notes: We can use this Key, but in fact, we also want to show that we can use our own, so we will do that.

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Slide notes: A Bill must have a Name that identifies it well.

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Slide notes: And a Bill should belong to a Category, otherwise, when there are many Bills, it becomes too difficult to find the correct one.

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Slide notes: The content of a Bill, which must be at least 1 line, comes from the Retail Catalog, which

may include both Stock Items and Service Items, e.g. Man Charges and other Service

Charges.

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Slide notes: We now have all the required content on our Bill for Rust Treatment on our Vehicles.

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Slide notes: At this stage, we can SAVE the new Bill, so that we can retrieve it again and see how we work further with an existing Bill.

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Slide notes: We can retrieve an existing Bill with any of the usual lookup methods. In this case, we'll do it with a keyword.

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Slide notes: An existing Bill can be changed as to content, and of course we have the optional fields for Instructions and Notes for cases where we need to use those.

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Slide notes: The 'where used' function will reveal how the Bill is used in the system.

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Slide notes: This is a new Bill, and there is not much history, but it does show that this Bill is included on a Planned Maintenance Event Template, and of course, wherever it's usage is shown, we can drill into the object or detail of that usage.

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Slide notes: Here we see the Event Template that uses the current Bill.

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Slide notes: The Bill can also be used in the Retail Catalog, on other Bills, etc.

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Slide notes: And direct usage may include Manufacture or any other event where someone loads this Bill, in which case it will show up here as history that we can inspect.

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Slide notes: Categories for Bills are used to organize the Bills, and every Bill belongs to some Category.

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Slide notes: We can conveniently enter the Category definition object from any Bill, i.e. to make a new Category or redefine the name of an existing one.

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Slide notes: We also have a function to validate a Bill, and this validation ensures that the Bill, which

may also include other Bills, does not re-iteratively use itself somewhere down the line,

because that would result in an impossible Bill that cannot be satisfied.

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Slide notes: The Bill can also be printed.

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Slide notes: Here is a sample print.

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Slide notes: And of course we can check the current Stock levels to see whether we currently have sufficient Stock to satisfy this Bill if we want to use it.

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Slide notes: In this case, we are checking all Stores.

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Slide notes: But we can also select a specific Store to check whether the Bill can be satisfied from that Store.

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Slide notes: Here we can see the Stock measured against the Bill in the Target Store only.

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Slide notes: The Bill of Materials can usually be drilled and accessed from wherever we use it.