Rootstock’s Engineering Change Management software provides a robust solution for manufacturers to efficiently create, revise, and maintain Bills of Material (BOMs), manage production workflows, and meticulously track costs. This system helps organizations ensure production accuracy, reduce scrap and rework, and gain comprehensive control over their engineering processes. It moves beyond traditional spreadsheet-based methods, offering a cloud-based platform that gives engineering teams complete control over drawings, engineering changes, bills of materials, routings, and associated costs. The software is designed to handle complex manufacturing environments, supporting multi-level BOMs with thousands of components and offering flexible routing capabilities that adapt to engineering changes dynamically. It integrates detailed cost controls, allowing real-time monitoring and automatic calculation of standard costs and variances. Furthermore, it provides strong revision control mechanisms, linking work orders to specific BOM revisions and enabling seamless document control with industry-standard PLM systems, ultimately preventing production errors and optimizing operational efficiency.

Features & Benefits

• Easy Engineering BOM Management
  • Simplifies the creation, revision, and maintenance of Bills of Material, from simple to multi-level structures with thousands of components.
  • Identify manufactured, purchased, and subcontracted sourcing and processing.
  • Track bulk materials using lot management (FIFO, FEFO, expirations).
  • Store key information about every part in item masters, including descriptions, commodity codes, lot or serial numbers, inventory attributes, and purchasing policies.
  • Streamline inventory management and reduce repetitive manual entry while maintaining identity down to the unit level.
• Customizable Engineering Change Procedure and Workflow Routings
  • Enables the building of flexible routings that can be simple or complex, adapting dynamically to engineering changes.
  • Set multiple alternate steps to support heavy workloads and adjust to supply, workforce, and other constraints.
  • Send workflows with outside vendors or shipping and receiving partners without affecting inventory.
  • Dynamically adjust routings to match different BOM revisions.
  • Choose configuration- or subcontractor-specific routings to manage unique products or outsourced operations.
• Extensive Product Costing Controls
  • Provides real-time monitoring and control of costs at every level to track contributors and plan more effectively.
  • Maintain and track multiple cost elements, up to 8 per item.
  • Automatically calculate standard costs and variances, including labor and overhead, using the cost rollup process.
  • Use standard or moving average costing methods.
  • Choose weighted average (dynamically calculated) including FIFO costing.
  • Monitor project-based work with project actual costing.
• Robust Engineering Change and Revision Control
  • Streamlines engineering change management, tracks component and operations adjustments, and reduces scrap and rework.
  • Manage revisions with item status, effectivity date, drawing changes, and routing changes.
  • Generate work orders by BOM revision to ensure the correct BOM is always used.
  • Revise and control documents with industry-standard PLM systems.
  • Define subcontracted items to manage final assembly at vendors or outside operators.
  • Set items as active or inactive to control usage and prevent production errors.