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Risks of Using Excel for BOM Management by Arifin de'Bara is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses using Excel versus a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) database for managing bills of materials (BOMs). It provides a template for a BOM in Excel but notes several risks in using Excel, including lack of change propagation across assemblies, difficulty searching for item usage, and lack of an audit trail. It recommends a specialized PLM database for BOM management instead, highlighting benefits like automatic part number assignment, item searches, change tracking, and supplier integr
- Author
- Arifin de'Bara
- Language
- EN