IHS BOM Manager

IHS BOM Manager is a product information management tool that enables companies to effectively oversee component and supplier risks.

BOM Manager provides a strategic approach to product management by actively monitoring and notifying you of impending changes to critical components or suppliers.

With BOM Manager you can establish best practices for avoiding obsolescence and compliance risks and sourcing issues with an enterprise view of suppliers, components and product configurations.

BOM Manager compares your parts data with information contained within the IHS Electronics Database, an up-to-date database of more than 100 million electronic, electro-mechanical and fasteners parts from over 1300 worldwide manufacturers (with 500+ regularly updated and current).

BOM Manager provides:

• Timely alerts to impending sourcing issues
• Environmental compliance status and substance attributes
• Component life cycle and years to end of life forecasts
• Cross-references to alternate parts and suppliers

Benefits:

• Validate accuracy and currency of supplier names and part numbers
• Evaluate product configurations across the enterprise to eliminate redundant parts and suppliers
• Identify obsolescence and counterfeit risks as early as possible to avoid production interruptions
• Adhere to environmental regulations
• Automate analysis and resolution processes

BOM Manager organizes and automatically performs many functions done previously by an employee team:

• Automate part number and manufacturer name cleansing
• Build a knowledge database of reconciled supplier and part exceptions
• Monitor BOM processing events and status

With BOM Manager you can:

• Organize and manage BOMs in a single, secure environment and maintain relationships to summarize status and impacts by sub-assembly, product, product line or enterprise-wide
• Manage cross references and multiple suppliers in a Corporate Approved Manufacturer List (CAML), automatically update impacted BOMs
• Monitor new, reviewed and under investigation alerts, analysis and resolution status
• Generate AML records for parts that match DSCC or Military specification parts
• Assign the part with best life cycle score to matching AML parts
• Identify alternate sources and aftermarket manufacturers
• Capture analysis and resolution notes and automatically copy to matching parts across all BOMs

BOM Manager alerts you to any impending parts issues by comparing your list with up-to-date information on all the parts and manufacturers contained within the IHS Electronics Database. Any changes to parts in your BOMs are highlighted on the dashboard, allowing you to react quickly and decisively.

Obsolescence issues, life cycle forecasts, PCN's, EOL Notices and GIDEP alerts are clearly indicated and potential resolutions offered by BOM Manager in order to expedite your decision making process.

Complying with lead-free, RoHS or REACH regulations is simplified. BOM Manager provides detailed environmental compliance data on individual parts and informs you of all parts within the BOM that are compliant or lead-free.

BOM Manager automates product management:

• Identify obsolescence issues by actively monitoring component status changes, life cycle forecasts, manufacturer PCNs, EOL Notices and GIDEP alerts
• Automate resolution processes and communication with responsible parties
• Enhance practices by documenting issues, resolutions, approvals, costs and other metrics

Identify potential impacts earlier:

• Receive daily updates for component status, PCN and EOL notices, GIDEP alerts, failure notices, last time buy and delivery dates, counterfeit alerts and reinstatement parts
• Generate life cycle and hazardous material health scores based on the years to end-of-life forecast, number of active suppliers, RoHS compliance, lead-free status and hazardous material attributes
• Access REACH material content attributes 
• Compile Where-Used and Commonality reports based on part number, technical characteristic, alert notice or manufacturer
• Generate 2-4-8 year availability forecasts at the assembly and part level

To learn more about IHS BOM Manager, please:

• View the BOM Manager Flash Demo
• Download the BOM Manager brochure
• Download the Whitepaper - A Risk-Based Approach to Component and Supplier Management