Legacy Product

N.B. We now class Designs as Legacy Software. We will endeavour to support existing users for as long as possible, but we are not looking for new sales.

Designs

Enhanced Bill of Materials handling for Sage Line 50 for Windows.

Features

Not limited to 10 components.
'Dismantle', a feature that allows you to break a quantity of a Design into its raw materials.
Designs provide free text fields for both 'Design Notes' and 'Design Instructions'. These fields can be included on reports.
Design components provide a 30 character general purpose reference field for each component (e.g. drawing reference) and a free text Comments field. These can be included on relevant reports.
Design components can be given both 'consume' and 'yield' quantities. The 'consume' quantity is used when a Design is assembled. The 'yield' quantity is used when a Design is dismantled. This allows the 'dismantle' feature to provide for un-recoverable components or even (if a negative yield is used) a cost of dismantling!
Designs can be 'cloned', that is a fresh Design can be created based on the components of an existing design - you just provide the new identity code and then make any required adjustments to the components.
Import of Designs from suitable CSV text files.
Editable Design Explosion reports - these reports show the 'tree' of components for the Design, plus additional data such as location, quantity in top, etc.
Editable Component summary reports - these show the components for a given quantity of a design. There are report layouts both for direct components and 'ultimate' components (i.e. raw materials). A common use of this report style is for producing 'picklists'.
Editable Construction reports - these show a structured series of lists presenting the components required at each level of build, from raw materials, through sub-assemblies to the top level design. These reports can form the basis for workshop procedures.
Editable Component usage reports - these show which Designs include a given component. There are report layouts to show both direct and indirect usage.
Trial Kitting (e.g. Can we make 100 of these? What do we need from stores? What are we short of?), plus associated reports (Picklist, Construction & Purchase Suggestions).

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Why an add-on?

Designs provides benefit by offering bill of materials features that are more extensive and more flexible than the features provided by standard Sage.

With Designs you are no longer limited to just 10 components per product, neither are you limited to 10 levels of assembly.

Designs provide several additional fields, including multi-line free text fields, to allow you to better document, report on and manipulate your stock.

Designs allow a variety of sorting alternatives for components, including sorting by the reference field. The standard Sage bills of material are always sorted alphabetically by component code.

The Designs Transfer operation allows both for assembly and for dismantling of into raw components.

Trial Kitting assesses the possibilities for assembling a given number of a Design taking into account current stock and allocation levels. There are options to produce 3 reports:

Picklist report - a list of components & ready made sub-assemblies to pick in order to build desired quanitty of the Design.
Construction report - a level by level, sub-assembly by sub-assembly list of the suggested makeups needed for the build.
Purchase Order Suggestions - a list of suggested purchase orders (if necessary) in order to complete the required build and return stock levels to reasonable levels (as defined by product re-order levels and re-order quantities).

Sage Line 50 has no equivalent of the Trial Kitting feature.

Designs provides a range of reports - all editable, unlike the Sage BOM reports. The Designs reports are grouped into four report styles:

Explosion reports - an illustration of the structure of a range of Designs, with a choice of information about each Designs and component.
Component Summary reports - provide a list of the raw material components needed to makeup a specific quantity of a Design, regardless of current stock levels.
Construction reports - show the components and sub-assemblies required for each stage of assembly in order to makeup a specific quantity of a Design from its raw materials, regardless of current stock levels.
Component Usage (Reverse Explosion) reports - an illustration of the Designs that use particular components, either directly or indirectly.

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