The system can automatically allocate parts under an operation based on the previous allocation of the parts from other related assemblies. In a BOM that contains thousands of parts, use of the Auto Allocate Assembly action can save a lot of time.

The Auto Allocate Assembly action is available on the Tree Picker toolbar. Consider the following business use case:

A process plan can have multiple operations present under it. Multiple assemblies can be already related to a process plan. Some of the components from those assemblies can already be allocated to the operations of the same process plan. Consider a scenario where parts in a truck are already allocated under the operations in the process plan. The truck can have multiple variants. Majority of the parts are common in all the variants. You can auto allocate parts that are common among the variants by opening each variant in the Tree Picker and clicking Auto Allocate Assembly. For example, Truck M has four variants; V1, V2, V3, and V4. 80 % of the parts are common between M, V1, V2, V3, and V4. The common parts from Truck M are already allocated to operations in the process plan. You can open the individual assemblies of V1, V2, V3, and V4 in the tree picker and click Auto Allocate Assembly action to complete the automatic allocation of the common parts. Based on the logic, the system finds the operations under which the respective parts of variants were already allocated for Truck M. The system then allocates the same parts for V1, V2, V3, and V4 to the same operations.