Synchronizing BOMs
You can manually synchronize BOMs between products that are already linked. See
Linking Products for details on how to link products.
To view those BOMs with which you can synchronize the current BOM, click the synchable BOMs icon
. The
Synchable BOMs table appears. This table displays the
BOM name and the associated
Product name of those BOMs to which you can synchronize the current BOM.
| Because BOM synchronization is a manual process, this table does not display those BOMs with which you have previously synchronized the current product. |
To synchronize BOMs, navigate to the BOM for the parent product, click the Actions arrow, and select Synch BOM.
Specifying BOM Sections and Insertion Mode
Selecting Synch BOM takes you to the Map Product Variations page, where you can select a BOM to synchronize the current BOM to from the Synchable BOMs menu. Only the BOMs of those linked products that are children of the current product are available for selection.
| If you decide you do not want to synchronize BOMs, click Return to return to the product Materials page. |
To automatically refresh the page and display additional options, select a BOM from the Synchable BOMs menu. The View button, the Section menu, and the Insert Mode menu appear.
Viewing Target BOMs
Click View to go to the product Materials page and view the target BOM selected from the Synchable BOMs menu.
| The product Materials page does not open in a separate window. Use the browser’s Back button to return to the Map Product Variations page. |
Selecting BOM Sections
The Section menu allows you to specify which rows of the parent BOM you want to insert or replace in the target BOM.
| The insertion of replacement of BOM rows is controlled by the selection from the Insert Mode menu. For more information, see Synchronization Insertion Mode. |
• Select All to synchronize all parent BOM rows with the rows of the target BOM.
• Select Select to display the individual parent BOM rows to be selected for synchronization. Select the corresponding checkboxes for the rows that you want to synchronize. You can select the All checkbox to select all BOM rows.
| Selecting the All checkbox is the same as selecting ALL from the Section menu. The ability to select an insertion mode for the BOM rows is disabled for the Select option. The system automatically inserts the BOM rows. The option to replace BOM rows in the target BOM is not available. |
• Select individual BOM section names, such as fabrics, trims, or labels, to synchronize the parent BOM section with that section of the target BOM
Synchronization Insertion Mode
There are two options available from the Insert Mode menu:
• Insert—inserts the selected rows or sections from the parent BOM into the selected BOM.
• Replace—replaces the selected rows or sections into the selected BOM. This mode is disabled if you choose Select from the Section menu. By default, any selected rows are inserted, not replaced, when Select is chosen.
Mapping Product Variations
When you select a target BOM for synchronization, the system displays the product variations of both the parent and the target BOMs. Using menus, you can map different product variations between products.
| Using property settings, your administrator might have defined attributes for use to automatically map product variations to one another. Product variations might already be mapped when displayed; however, you can manually change the mapping. |
The Map Product Variations page contains boxes for each of the four variations: sourcing configurations, colorways, sizes, and destinations. The target BOM’s variations appear on the left, and the parent product’s variations are available for selection from menus within the boxes.
• The Sources box allows you to map parent sourcing configurations to target sourcing configurations. This mapping is especially helpful if the same source has a slightly different name on the parent or target product.
• The Colorways box allows you to map parent product colorways to target product colorways. This mapping is helpful when colorway names differ from one another, such as seasonal differences in names.
• The size 1 variation and size 2 variation (if applicable) can be mapped using the Sizes and Sizes2 boxes, respectively. For both size boxes, the target product’s sizes appear on the left. Select a parent product size from the corresponding menu to map to the target product size.
• You map product and target destinations in the same manner that you map other product variations. Select a parent product destination from the menu on the right to map to the target product destination on the left.
• There are instances where a parent and target product’s variations do not align, and you therefore do not want to map the variations to one another. To prevent variation information from being synchronized, you must leave the parent product variation value empty. If the value is not already empty, you can clear the value by selecting the empty value from the parent product variation menu.
After you have finished selecting the BOM sections for insert or replacement, as well as the product variations to synchronize, click Complete at the top of the page. The system refreshes and displays the “BOM synchronization successful” message.
After the BOMs have been synchronized, you can select another target BOM for synchronization from the Synchable BOMs menu.
