Multi-level BOM in plain English
A BOM (Bill of Materials) is just a recipe. For a single product, you list the ingredients. Easy.
But what if one of those ingredients is itself something you manufacture from raw stock? That's a sub-assembly. And that's where multi-level BOM begins.
A real example: Bajaj Tier-2 supplier in Pune
One supplier makes a brake caliper bracket assembly. The BOM looks like:
- 1 × Machined Bracket (sub-assembly)
- 1 × Casting (raw)
- 0.05 KG Coolant (consumable)
- 4 × Bolt M8 × 25 (raw)
- 2 × Washer (raw)
- 1 × Anti-rust dip (consumable, 0.02 LTR)
To produce 100 assemblies, the system explodes the BOM and tells you exactly how much casting, bolts, washers, coolant, and dip to issue. Scrap % is built in.
This is impossible in Tally without manual journal entries. It's native in any real manufacturing ERP — including WAM ERP's Growth plan.
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