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Bill of Materials Management
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Arena Solutions, Inc.
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Almost as soon as Excel superseded Multiplan, Microsoft’s first spreadsheet application, in 1987, manufacturers adapted it to organize their BOMs (bills of materials). More than 20 years later, it is safe to say that many managers still routinely fit their product information into Excel’s cells. And why not? Everyone loves Excel—it’s easy enough to use, everyone’s got it, and it came with your ...
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Arena Solutions, Inc.
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This whitepaper tells the story of a quick to react company that stumbled and fell because of its lax revision control processes and its poor communications both internally and externally with suppliers and contract manufacturers (CM). This paper also describes how a collaborative bill of materials (BOM) and change management system like Arena could have saved this company from an expensive ...
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