Impact of the BOM on Roles
The creation and maintenance of the BOM involves many different roles. Each of those roles may be responsible for viewing, creating, or updating a specific portion of the BOM. Changes to the data are frequent, and it is critical that the most updated information is available and easy to access and change. Because of these demands, the following issues are critical to BOM functionality:
• Creating, editing, and viewing data
• Managing a large amount of information
• Filtering the display of information that is relevant to specific users
• Controlling access and security
The PTC FlexPLM BOM can manage the organization of materials and information necessary to order supplies, and to manufacture and cost products. To achieve this, PTC FlexPLM manages many pieces of information about the materials and suppliers used, and colorways and sizes created.
PTC FlexPLM allows access control to attribute groups, and it is possible to allow user groups to view, create, or edit.
You can also create views to limit the amount of information displayed as well as how that information is both displayed and exported. Both users and administrators can create views to allow easy access to the data that is pertinent to their job function.