BOM or Bill of Materials Software can be a very powerful tool for a small business. Many businesses that want to become more functional go to their friendly neighborhood IT guy and have him set up a BOM system. The problem is that these systems are not only complicated, but they’re also expensive.
So, you are about to buy a new piece of equipment for your company and want to know what else you need to buy to go with it? Enter Bill of Materials Software. Such software can keep track of the pieces and how much everything costs so there won’t be any surprises when the bill arrives. Usually, those kinds of software can handle several kinds of inventory, even non-manufactured items.
Unioncrate
Summary: Built by CPG veterans, Unioncrate brings your sales, purchasing, and inventory into one place, automates the manual steps you waste hours on, and gives you a simple way to control everything. They offer no-fee onboarding, modular and scalable software, manual orders. With Unioncrate, manual orders, e-commerce orders, and granular sales reports are automatically centralized and updated as they’re processed in the real world. With their Operations Management platform, you can create product assemblies (BOM) and track costs for all finished goods, raw materials, and components.
Pricing: Answer a few basic questions on UnionCrate’s site and get a pricing breakdown sent to your email.
Top Clients: Spindrift, Mason Dixie, Dream Pops, Jade Leaf Matcha, SOUND Brands, CAULIPOWER.
Customer Reviews:
Unioncrate’s demand forecasts have proven to be highly accurate and consistent. As a result, they’re actionable across the supply chain. — The Fishin’ Co
Unioncrate’s team has added a ton of value. They’ve helped me understand my category better and generate efficiencies that are leaps and bounds above anything we did previously. I feel very grateful to have found them—and highly recommend them. — DreamPops
NetSuite
Summary: NetSuite boasts a “#1 Cloud ERP” tagline. They offer customizable alerts about your supply chain status, use order management rules to optimize delivery plans and reduce lead times, and quickly identify and act on cost variances as they occur. With NetSuite’s replenishment setting feature, you can view and manage inventory across your organization and achieve multi-location planning. With their cycle counting feature, you can target specific items. NetSuite also offers lot and bin tracking, and full traceability,
Pricing: Request a demo to receive more information about pricing.
Top Clients: The Second City, TOV, Land O’Lakes, LoveSac, Hello Products.
Customer Reviews:
We’ve had exponential growth without having to increase headcount, and we’ve been able to handle that with a system like NetSuite. — The Second City
The executives are able to understand the complete business picture quickly and easily through NetSuite. — Gary Hornbeek, VP, Finance
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
QuickBooks Enterprise is an accounting solution designed for SMBs across different industry verticals such as construction, nonprofit distribution, manufacturing, and retail. With QB Enterprise solution, any business owner can expand business operations using advanced inventory, reporting, and invoice tools, in addition to premium support from Enterprise’s CS and Payroll teams. Quickbooks includes inventory management, inventory tracking, expense tracking, payroll management, invoicing, multi-user management, advanced reporting tools, and more. QuickBooks Enterprise offers customizable reporting tools that help users analyze data and make informed business decisions. With over 200+ auto-filled templates and 70 industry-specific reports, this Quickbooks accounting software helps businesses find the QuickBooks data to solve any business issue. Quickbooks advanced inventory tools allow businesses to gain visibility and control over the inventory management process with the ability to track inventory movement, automatically scan and update inventory items, manage any purchase order/sales order from one dashboard, and plenty more. QuickBooks Enterprise also allows businesses to control, customize, and automate financial transactions with job costing tools, batch invoicing, invoice tracking, cash flow management, fixed asset tracking, sales tracking, payment processing, and more. Businesses also have to ability to scan and attach multiple documents including receipts and quotes for multiple accounting tasks. The tool enables businesses to arrange documents into categories and keep track of important accounting files. This solution also maintains a change log to record changes within each document with the proper date and time stamp. QB also offers different QuickBooks software such as QuickBooks Premier and QuickBooks Pro that includes include different functionality and features.
JobBOSS
Summary: JobBOSS’s BOM add-on allows you to eliminate costly production mistakes and improve accuracy. By combining two manual steps into one automated step you will see dramatic time savings plus greater productivity. This tool captures data from a single or multi-level BoM structure and imports it directly into JobBOSS to create quotes and jobs. Materials do not have to pre-exist in the material library – the software can automate the part number creation process.
Pricing: Pricing is flexible—request a quote.
Top Clients: MRG Tool and Die, Larsen Manufacturing, Laser1Technologies, Inc, Premier Technology
Customer Reviews:
In just three years profits have increased, sales have doubled, and productivity has skyrocketed. — Bryco Machine
The reduction of entry hours along with increased accuracy of production requirements has had a significantly positive impact on the shop’s overall operations. — Serapid Rigid Chain Technology
Global Shop Solutions
Summary: Global Shop Solutions’ BOM Compare saves time for engineers by eliminating the tedious manual comparing of CAD/CAM BOMs against Global Shop Solutions BOMs. After designing and modifying designs in any CAD or CAM software, simply export the latest BOM to BOM Compare. With a clean, intuitive layout, BOM Compare displays a side-by-side comparison of the CAD or CAM BOM next to the Global Shop Solutions BOM so the user can quickly identify any discrepancies, such as additions, subtractions, or modifications to the BOM.
Pricing: Schedule a demo to find out more about pricing.
Top Clients: Corilam Fabricating, Miller Welding, Fullerton Tool, GereMarie
Customer Reviews:
Best total ERP system. They truly care about our success. — Miller Welding
We can see every aspect of our business. — GereMarie
Conclusion
Bill of materials (BoM) is an organized listing of items needed to produce a piece of hardware that identifies and quantifies the material and parts needed and any sub-assemblies that must be created. A BoM can be very useful software for small business owners, manufacturers and retailers.