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A Guide to the Benefits of a Bill of Materials (BOM)

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This involves ordering the right amount of stock to meet production or servicing schedules, or to fulfill forecasted sales. These accurate and timely BOM forecasts can then feed into the ERP or MRP systems for purchase orders to be created. Less wastage. With an accurate bill of materials, stock levels can be optimized.

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Bill of Materials Inventory management: How to improve BOM forecasting and planning

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By connecting EazyStock to your ERP or MRP, it can calculate the demand forecasts for every item in a BOM, exploding them down from the finished item to the smallest nut and bolt. With an accurate bill of materials, stock levels can be optimized, so stock is carried to meet forecasted demand with a deliberate level of safety stock as back-up.