BOM Attributes

Form ID: (AM208500)

The bill of material revision status must be On Hold in order to maintain the attributes.

The primary purpose of attributes is to display and optionally collect values when reporting production.

Attributes can be attached to bills of material header and operations and are copied onto the production order when the order is created. They are created by using the Attributes (CS205000) form and can be any of the attribute control types. Attributes can also be added to a production order manually by using the Production Order Maintenance (AM201000) form. Additionally, attributes and their values are used on the Configuration Entry (AM306000) form and are copied to the production order created as view only.

Attributes created at the BOM level become order level attributes for the production order. If an order level attribute is enabled for data entry it is available when reporting all operations of the production order. For example, you could create a required attribute for a quality control check for all operations or to record a process value.

A user can enter attribute values for a production order and operation when creating a labor transaction on the Labor (AM301000) form or a move transaction on the Move (AM302000) form. If an attribute is marked as Transaction Required, it must be entered. The attribute values entered in these transaction are specific to the transaction.

Attention: You should not make an attribute required for any operation that is set for backflush.

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Summary Area

In this area, you specify the bill of material to which attributes can be attached.


Element	Description
BOM ID	Enter or lookup the bill of material to be used
Revision	The bill of material revision.
Hold	If selected, the bill of material revision is on hold and the attributes can be edited.
Status	The status of the bill of material revision. The values can be the following: Active Archived On Hold
Description	The description of the bill of material revision.
Inventory ID	This is the Inventory ID for the selected bill of material.
Subitem	This column is visible only if the Inventory Subitems feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Important: The Inventory Subitems check box has been removed from the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form because the functionality associated with the Inventory Subitems feature will be phased out. If you have this feature enabled in your system, the associated functionality remains available. To disable the feature, contact your MYOB support provider.
Warehouse	This is the warehouse for the selected bill of material.
Start Date	The effective start date of the bill of material revision.
End Date	The effective start date of the bill of material revision.

Attributes Table

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In this table, you maintain the list of attributes for a bill of material. An attribute may be used more than once with a different Label


Element	Description
Level	This indicates the level of the attribute and is automatically set: BOM: The header for the bill of material Operation: When the Oper. Nbr. column is not blank Attributes for all levels are displayed during production entry.
Operation ID	The operation number from the bill of material.
Attribute ID	Enter or lookup the attribute you wish to add.
Label	This is used to identify the attribute during data entry on the Move (AM302000) and Labor (AM301000) forms. All labels must be unique. For example, if the same label is used in a product configuration it will overwrite the BOM label when a production order is created. If you add a label to a production order and change the bill of material, the bill of material label will overwrite the production order label.
Description	Enter a description for the attribute.
Enabled	If checked, the value can be changed on the production order and entered when reporting production.
Transaction Required	If checked a value must be entered/selected before the production transaction batch can be released.
Value	The default value is copied onto the production order or operation.
Order Function	This specifies where the attribute can be used. The values are the following: Regular: Restricts usage to production orders with a function of Regular Disassemble: Restricts usage to production orders with a function of Disassemble All: Attribute can be used with any production order.