A good Bill of Material (BOM) software solution for manufacturing businesses ensures higher profitability across products. Whimbrel’s Bill of Material Solution can accurately identify and list the components required, giving you the confidence that your company, your suppliers and external subcontractors are all contributing towards producing the correct product.
Whimbrel’s Bill of Material software solution enables manufacturing companies to improve productivity, decrease production costs and improve quality. Whimbrel’s BOM software is the perfect upgrade from legacy BOM software systems and Excel spreadsheets, both of which can be extremely tedious and prone to error.
Our solutions can be customised to your requirements but some of our typical features include:
- Powerful BOM parts explosion reporting:
- Parts ordered depending on BOM levels
- Click through to edit parts from BOM explosion report
- Orphaned parts error report
- Searchable parts reporting
- Search BOM database for parts from multiple fields
- Search for parent assemblies and parts from child part numbers
- Part input screens
- Quickly adds parts from drawings
- Option to export parts directly from CAD
- System checks for duplicate parts
- Predictive text dropdown boxes to add common descriptions
Manufacturing system’s integration
Our solutions can be integrated with your existing accounting package and other Whimbrel manufacturing software products, including Whimbrel’s manufacturing job costing software and production scheduling software.
Benefits of custom designed software
At Whimbrel we develop software solutions tailored to your business’s processes and personnel. This ensures that our solutions are accepted quickly by your personnel. In addition the software can evolve as your business changes and grows.
Manufacturing companies need to control the type and quantities of materials they purchase and fabricate in-house. Companies need to meet future customer demands at the lowest possible cost. If your manufacturing company depends on spreadsheets, legacy systems or hand filled forms to manage materials there is a good chance high error rates are hurting your profit margins
Whimbrel has developed a powerful material handling and scheduling software application that streamlines operational and financial planning. This application integrates seamlessly with Whimbrel’s flexible Bill of Material Software solutions and can be customised to your exact requirements. It tracks the assembly of all raw materials and finished goods, helping you make the correct decisions on what to make and what to buy.
Our solutions can be customised to your requirements but some of our typical features include:
- Manages any part of the material handling
- Controls fabrication of assemblies and sub-assemblies
- Keeps track of inventory
- Monitors stock levels
- Ensure products get produced on time with minimal waste
- Double check that orders contain the correct item numbers
- Design customised reports
- Controls laser cuts, saw cuts and cut to size parts
- Link products and work orders to streamline material handling
- Import Solid Works or CAD data including general parts or bill of materials lists
Manufacturing system’s integration
Our solutions can be integrated with your existing accounting package and other Whimbrel software products, including Whimbrel’s Bill of Material solution.
Benefits of custom designed software
At Whimbrel we develop software solutions tailored to your business’s processes and personnel. This ensures that our solutions are accepted quickly by your personnel. In addition the software can evolve as your business changes and grows.
Pastel Partner integration
Whimbrel can be directly linked to Pastel Partner, all orders and invoices created on Whimbrel can be seamlessly updated in real time to Pastel Partner.
Whimbrel has developed a powerful estimating and quotation package for engineering, manufacturing and construction companies.
Calculating construction costs can now be automated saving valuable time. Rather than investing in complex quantity surveying or estimating packages, construction companies now have the option of having an estimating solution tailored designed to fit their exact requirements.
Whimbrel’s estimating and quotation package has the following features:
- Customer Details
- Quotation Module
- Part and Job Card Module
- Cost Centre’s
- Cost Control Module
- Cutting Specification for Steel Components
- Raw Material Costing
- Purchased Item Costing
- Additional Services Costing
Whimbrel’s estimating and quotation package can be integrated with most accounting packages.
Steel Erection and Fabrication Application
Whimbrel has developed a steel fabrication and scheduling software application that streamlines operational and financial planning. This application integrates seamlessly with Whimbrel’s Bill of Material Software solutions and can be customised to your exact requirements. It tracks the assembly of all raw materials and finished goods, helping you make the correct decisions on what to make, what to purchase and keeps track of profit margins.
Steel erection and fabrication companies need to control the type and quantities of materials they purchase and fabricate in-house. Companies need to meet future customer demands at the lowest possible cost. If your manufacturing company depends on spreadsheets, legacy systems or hand filled forms to manage materials there is a good chance high error rates are hurting your profit margins.
Whimbrel’s steel fabrication application typically covers the following:
- Manages any part of the material handling
- Controls fabrication of assemblies and sub-assemblies
- Keeps track of inventory
- Monitors stock levels and off cuts put back into stock
- Customised job cards
- Mange labour Costs
- Ensure products get produced on time with minimal waste
- Double check that orders contain the correct item numbers
- Design customised reports
- Controls laser cuts, saw cuts and cut to size parts
- Link products and work orders to streamline material handling
- Import Solid Works or CAD data including general parts or bill of materials lists
- Powerful BOM parts explosion reporting:
- Parts ordered depending on BOM levels
- Click through to edit parts from BOM explosion report
- Orphaned parts error report
- Predictive text dropdown boxes to add common descriptions
