This article will explain how to enrich the factory Bill of Materials with additional finding specification and costing data specifc to an Enterprise retailer.
⚠️ Warning
Your Bill of Materials must already contain a finding in order for you to enter additional specifications and costing data. If your Bill of Materials does not already contain a finding read how to add this here.
Step 1: Inside your Cost Submission, locate the Finding Detail section on your Bill of Materials - displaying a red icon to indicate incomplete data - and open the accordion by clicking on the chevron to expose the data fields:
Step 2: Now you can see the fields, you can see the basic specification added by the factory at the time of initial factory upload, as well as all the available fields in Cost Submission that are available to you to complete. Click the edit pencil icon to open the finding modal:
Step 3a: The modal is where you can enter your additional specification and costing, specific to your customer:
💡 More than one finding in your Bill of Materials?
In some cases, you may need more than one of the exact same finding in a product - an example is where you load silicone ear backs. In this case simply detail your ear fitting, and increase the quantity = 2, to reflect the fact your Bill of Materials needs to cover 1 for each earring in the pair.
In some cases, single products will contain more than one distinct finding. For example a bolo/friendship bracelet where you need to add a slider & end caps. In this case you will see one column per finding loaded in the Bill of Materials, and when you open the chain modal the modal will display 1 of N in the top right corner. You can navigate between them using "back" and "Next" controls at the bottom of the modal.
Step 3b: (optional) If you have more than one finding to enter additional data for, repeat the process for each finding in your Bill of Materials:
Step 4a (Optional): If your Cost Submission has Duty Allocation configured to Component then you will see two duty-related fields appear:
- Imported From (drop-down list of countries)
- Duty Rate % (non-editable)
The Duty Rate % field will automatically index against your customer's Duty Grid and populate a relevant value after you select a country in the Imported From field.
Step 4b (Optional): If your customer has enabled a Labour grid and an exact match can be indexed between your Bill of Materials and the customer grid then your pre-agreed labour will automatically populate the modal.
Step 5: After you save your additional data in the finding modal, close it, and you are returned to the Cost Submission. Your additional data is now visible, and the red icon indicating incomplete data no longer displays:
Step 6: After you have completed your additional finding data, your Materials table will update automatically:
- The finding section of the table will update with the values you have entered
- The piece net weight will adjust automatically to subtract the finding weight(s) entered in the finding modal