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Option Bill of Materials
It is a bill of materials set to make a forecast or production planning of Option Parts or Variant Parts easier and is a kind of Planning Bill of Materials. In Option Bill of Materials, artificial items are set in a group which is made by collecting similar functions among options.
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In this figure, several kinds of car radios are collected and set as a Pseudo item, for which its forecast or production planning is performed. Each car radio is dependently planned by allocation rate.
Related term: Bill of Materials,Pseudo Bill of Materials,Planning Bill of Materials
Reference:JIT Business Research Mr. Hirano Hiroyuki